{"id":203075,"date":"2026-03-04T01:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203075\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:16:26","slug":"boots-rileys-i-love-boosters-gets-a-hometown-premiere-at-sffilm-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203075\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots Riley\u2019s \u2018I Love Boosters\u2019 Gets a Hometown Premiere at SFFILM Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/tag\/boots-riley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boots Riley<\/a>\u2019s new film I Love Boosters hits theaters May 22, but the Bay Area gets to see it early. The Oakland director\u2019s comedy-thriller about a high-fashion heist will have its West Coast premiere at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sffilm.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">69th annual San Francisco International Film Festival<\/a>, with two back-to-back screenings April 28 at Oakland\u2019s Grand Lake Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the Bay Area, I Love Boosters stars Keke Palmer as the leader of an all-woman shoplifting ring, which faces off against a villainous, bob-sporting mogul played by Demi Moore. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/13985867\/i-love-boosters-trailer-boots-riley-keke-palmer-don-cheadle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The stylish trailer<\/a> promises snappy dialogue, fast-paced action scenes and plenty of food for thought about class and capitalism. The film gets its name from a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/geY-ydeYb4M?si=3AFxq8_rGb2uBsGP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2006 song by Riley\u2019s hip-hop group<\/a>, The Coup, where Riley raps: \u201cThis goes to all them hard working women \/ Who risk jail time just to make them a living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riley has a long history with SFFILM, the organization that produces the San Francisco International Film Festival. SFFILM grants supported his earliest forays into directing, and his 2018 debut feature film Sorry to Bother You, a dark, surrealist comedy about climbing the corporate ladder, was the San Francisco International Film Festival Centerpiece program in 2018. I\u2019m a Virgo, his series about a giant and his friends who take on a nefarious crime-fighting \u201chero,\u201d closed out the festival in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hyped as hell to bring I Love Boosters to SFFILM since they were the first organization to recognize me as a filmmaker and to support me in my filmmaking journey,\u201d Riley said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be extra special to premiere in my hometown at Grand Lake Theater I\u2019ve been going to since I was a kid. This film is my best work and it\u2019s going to be special to see this movie, which is set in the Bay Area, play here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boots Riley\u2019s new film I Love Boosters hits theaters May 22, but the Bay Area gets to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-203075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}