Handmade Nation

Tonight the San Francisco Film Society will play host to a screening of Handmade Nation, a documentary about the work and connections between independent artists across the country. Made by first-time filmmaker and craft blogger Faythe Levine, the film focuses on the role that the Web has played on the marketability of handmade objects (Etsy, anyone?). That, and the "punky do-it-yourself ethos [that has been] informed by modern aesthetics, politics, feminism and art."

A discussion will follow the event at Mezzanine, and will include design*sponge editor and co-owner of The Curiosity Shoppe, Derek Fagerstrom and Craft editor Natalie Zee Drieu. At $12 a ticket the event will still be less than seeing a flick at Sundance.