It would have been hard to miss the fact that the San Francisco International Film Festival kicks off tonight, as their unstoppable PR machine has been busily garnering placement in every media outlet in town. Even your still occasionally shunned (believe it!) SFist is in on the fun, as we have 5 -- count them -- 5 staffers with all-access passes to the festival, eager to provide our readers with daily coverage of the films, events, and awards.

From tonight's opening night gala and screening of Perhaps Love, to a projection of Cartography of Ashes against the firefighter's training tower at the SFFD Fire Station #7, we'll be reporting back to you with the good, the bad, and the hard-to-understand (Big Tilda? Huh?) at this year's SFIFF.