SF Docfest Still Stranger than Fiction
“You’ve gotta have a gimmick,” goes the line from Gypsy, and a list of some of the subjects featured in the 9th annual San Francisco Documentary Film Festival reads like the first round of cuts from an America’s Got Talent audition. There is a sex shaman who testifies to the powers of his libidinal healing workshops (Sex Magic), a rapping cowboy from North Dakota (Roll Out, Cowboy), a mystic who stares into the sun (Eat the Sun), an Oklahoman environmental activist and bike advocate (Biker Fox), and the dueling farmers determined to grow the world’s largest pumpkin (Giants).
