Rated: NR    Runtime: 97 mins.
Jane (Marianne Heath) is a stripper, her mother Lou (Brette McCabe) an aging prostitute defying the pimps. Petite (Diane Gaidry) robs johns, and Francesca (Gabriel Maltz Larkin) manages an escort service. In a profession that thrives on fantasy and martyrdom, these four women struggle to hold on to their reasons for caring for each other. (US 2005) 97 min.

For the first time on the West Coast, Bay Area filmmaker Rob Nilsson presents the complete 9 @ Night, a series of nine feature films he produced over the last decade in collaboration with the Tenderloin yGroup, an inner-city acting and production workshop Nilsson developed in the San Francisco Tenderloin. The series continues beginning September 5 at The Rafael Film Center.

“For 30 years, San Francisco-based Rob Nilsson has been serving as the conscience and agent-provocateur of low-budget American independent filmmaking,” writes critic and historian Ray Carney, who also observes that Nilsson “has devoted his cinematic career to presenting the sorts of sociological realities, interpersonal interactions and emotional transactions that have been screened out of big-budget, mainstream American film.”

9 @ Night SCHEDULE
Friday, August 29
6:45: NOISE
9:00: USED

Saturday, August 30
2:15: ATTITUDE
4:30: SINGING
6:45: STROKE
9:00: SCHEME C6

Sunday, August 31
2:15: NEED
4:30: PAN
6:45: GO TOGETHER
9:00: NOISE

Monday, September 1
6:45: USED
9:00: ATTITUDE

Tuesday, September 2
6:45: SINGING
9:00: STROKE

Wednesday, September 3
6:45: SCHEME C6
9:00: NEED

Thursday, September 4
6:45: PAN
9:00: GO TOGETHER