FERLINGHETTI SCHOOL OF POETICS MOVIE

Joan’s Op-Ed Featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
Haunted and inspired by dreams of Ferlinghetti
An Op-Ed by Joan Gelfand in the SF Chronicle (February 28, 2021)
Featured in Women’s Voices for Change Review: CLICK HERE TO READ



OFFICIAL SELECTION AT:
Geneva International Film Festival
World Film Festival
Hollywood International Film Festival
Rome International Film Festival
Austria International Film Festival
Eurovision Film Festival
London Classic Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Malta International Film Festival
Euro Film Festival Geneva
SHOWINGS:
London International Filmmaker Festival (Feb 16th-23rd 2020)
Euro Film Festival Geneva (March 20 – March 21st 2020)
Nice International Film Festival (May 2020)
Madrid International Film Festival (July 2020)
International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Belgium (October 2020)
International Filmmaker Festival of World Milan (December 2020)
Black Movie Fest, Los Angeles (Oct. 9, 2020)
World Film Festival:Presentation and AWARD for “Best Poetry Film: Santa Monica (November 12th 2019)
Meraki Film Festival, Madrid (April 27 & 28, 2018)
International Association for the Study of Dreams [Part of a juried art show & WINNER of ‘Certificate of Merit’- June 2017] Anaheim, CA (June 17-20, 2017)
York Street Artists Salon (March 13th, 2017)
la promenade (Sept 3, 2016)
The Beat Museum (Oct 16, 2015)
Lit Crawl (Oct 17, 2015)
Poetry Center, San Jose (Sept. 8, 2015)
International Poetry Film Festival – Athens, Greece
San Francisco Writer’s Conference (February , 2015)
PUBLISHED & AWARDS:
San Francisco Chronicle
Lines on Line Anthology/Henry Miller Library – 2022
San Francisco Public Library – Poem of the Day, selected by SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
Fog and Light: San Francisco Through the Eyes of Poets who Live There (Blue Light Press)
Light on the Walls of Life: A Tribute Anthology to Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Jambu Press)
Neworld Review – Fall 2018
The Marsh Hawk Review – Spring, 2017
Poets 11: Judged by Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Francisco
Bay Area Seasonal Poetry Review
Du Page Valley Review
Levure Littéraire (Awarded “Best of 2014”)
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