TGIIF (Thank God It’s IndieFest)

By Kayla Mahoney – February 2, 2018

It’s SF IndieFest time! Just over two weeks of films that celebrate the best in the independent, alternative, and subversive cinema all over the world. To get you excited about some of these amazing films, here are our top picks as well and information about their entire lineup and additional events.

Super Bowl Men in Tights
Sun 2/4/18 @ Roxie Theater, San Francisco
Well it’s soon time for Super Bowl Fifty-Something and as always, SF Indie Fest is bringing you the funniest, non-footballest, most-factually-incorrect Super Bowl broadcast presentation out there: Super Bowl: Men in Tights. Come on down to the Mission and pound your guts full of beers and snacks as some of SF’s best comedians provide live comedic color commentary for the game, but leave the commercials untouched because they are Holy and Good. Let’s be honest: if you want to watch the Super Bowl, go to a sports bar. If you want comedy and drunken chaos, this is for you.

Ginger Nation
Sun 2/4/18 @ Roxie Theater, San Francisco
Redheads are hot and fiery gay comic Shawn Hitchins has made flame-haired world domination his mission. He verges on Spalding Gray in this intimate concert filming of his internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy, Ginger Nation. This humorous and heartfelt one-man show has the affable entertainer recounting his experience as a sperm donor to his lesbian friends. Hitchins’ spunky storytelling effortlessly weaves tales from his adolescence and his brushes with celebrity as a stand-up comic with bizarre tales of turkey basters and masturbating in increasingly suspect bathrooms.

CRUISE
Fri 2/9/18 @ Roxie Theater, San Francisco
Flashback to the Summer of ‘87. Gio, an Italian kid from Queens has nothing on his mind but fast cars and faster girls. He’s the king of Francis Lewis Boulevard, where kids go to cruise and men go to drag race. Gio thinks he has it all figured out until he crosses paths with Jessica Weinberg, a nice Jewish girl from Long Island who likes to go “undercover” for illicit thrills on the wrong side of the tracks. Their unlikely summer romance blossoms into an unlikely crime spree that turns their carefree worlds upside-down.