Legacy Film Festival on Aging

The 10th Annual Legacy Film Festival on Aging will be presented Friday through Sunday, Oct 2-4, 2020 at the 146-seat New People Cinema in SF’s Japantown. The Legacy Film Festival on Aging in San Francisco celebrates the aging process as profound and meaningful, often challenging, and always courageous. We seek submissions from filmmakers that portray the full range of later life in all its humanity, complexities, challenges, richness. Every day in America, 10,000 men and women are turning 65. There are similar statistics world-wide. AGING IS ‘IN’, we say. No longer unacceptable are the words such as ‘seniors’, elders’, or ‘older adults’. What’s wrong with ‘old’ and ‘elderly?’ Our filmmakers have portrayed this unique, ever-changing experience honestly and artfully, and always with compassion and love for their subjects. Moviegoers’ written evaluations of our festivals are overwhelmingly positive: Wonderful conversations with filmmakers and audiences in a comfortable setting, Fabulous, top-notch festival, International viewpoints on the richness and variety of aging. And more: Eye-opening, Exquisite: the world needs this, A privilege to watch. We feature films that offer the triumphs and challenges of aging -- and dying -- through documentaries, feature films, shorts, animation, reflecting cultural experiences from countries around the world, as well as the work of local filmmakers. Important points: • Each 2 or 3-hour film program includes a lively post-screening Q&A with filmmakers and/or key experts and the audience. Please see our website for more information: www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org