City visions: A new breed of dreamers, including Frazer Bradshaw (director of "Everything Strange and New," above), is making narrative filmmaking in the Bay Area a reality. (Photo courtesy SFFS)
By Susan Gerhard
It's a testament to the programming staff at the Sundance Film Festival that first-time feature filmmaker Frazer Bradshaw's low-key, Oakland-shot domestic drama was chosen to debut there last January. It makes a bold impression without brand names or buzzwords—working instead with solid performances and an inventive score to convey a dissonance between the inner and outer lives of a working-class man. Bradshaw appeared with other outliers and innovators, including Laurel Nakadate, Scott Sanders and David Russo, on a panel I moderated at that festival last year. (The film premiered locally at the SF International in the spring.) I recently got the chance to catch up with Bradshaw over email. His film opens at the Roxie on December 4 with a weekend benefit for co-star Luis Saguar, who passed away this past summer. More
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