the heart is deceitful above all things kicks off the San Francisco IndieFest

Seventh Annual San Francisco IndieFest
February 3-15 in San Francisco
AT THE CASTRO THEATRE, ROXIE CINEMAS AND THE WOMENS BUILDING
WITH TWO MOVIES BASED ON CULT BOOKS BY BAY AREA AUTHORS, INDIEFEST OFFERS A PROVOCATIVE PILE OF INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILMS

The 7th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival (IndieFest), a world-spanning blend of more than 100 independent films and videos, unspools February 3-15, 2005 at three San Francisco venues: Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street; the Roxie Cinemas, 3117 Sixteenth Street; and The Women's Building, 3543 Eighteenth Street. Tickets are $9 for each screening; $7 for matinees; and $20 for Opening Night. For tickets or more information, telephone (415) 820-3907 or go to our Web site. Tickets go on sale beginning January 31.

Kicking straight into overdrive with its opening night offering at the Castro Theatre, IndieFest proudly presents THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS. Actor-turned-director Asia Argento (B. MONKEY) offers up a horrifying tale from the hairy underbelly of America with her adaptation of San Francisco bad-boy author J.T. Leroy's acclaimed novel of the same name. Argento sears the celluloid with exploding houses, skin-scrubbing preachers and medicated child molesters while offering delectable cameos from has-beens, freaks and nubiles like Peter Fonda, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Sisto and Marilyn Manson. After the movie, IndieFestgoers are invited to stumble down Market Street to the opening night after-party at the Swedish American Hall (above Cafe Du Nord), 2170 Market Street, where IndieFest once again proves firewater and flicks can mix.