I think it's awesome that there are so many mentorship and talent development programs out there now. While we all could use money, it's also cool when I get investments in my creative development.
Musa Syeed shares his inspiration, challenges, opportunities, and SFFS' impact on Doctor, recent SFFS / KRF grant-winning film project.
Read MoreI wanted to make a romantic film about how my own relationship—my own marriage—might feel 30 years from now, as imperfect as ever, but with its kindness intact.
Ira Sachs shares his inspiration, challenges, opportunities, and SFFS' impact on Love Is Strange, recent SFFS / KRF grant-winning film project.
Read MoreBut honestly in the end, it still boils down to proving yourself as an artist and working your ass off to get your work on screen. I feel like you can never give up.
Kat Candler shares her inspiration, challenges, opportunities, and SFFS' impact on Hellion, recent SFFS / KRF grant-winning film project.
Read MoreNot only are there very few of us out there able to finance our own films, but more troubling is that this truly precludes talent from the lower end of the economic ladder from getting the opportunities they deserve.
Peter Nicks shares his inspiration, challenges, opportunities, and SFFS' impact on Escaping Morgantown, recent SFFS / KRF grant-winning film project.
Read MoreWord of mouth within the cyberworld has launched my career. I love it. I like the ability to engage with audiences from the very beginning. There's a momentum it creates that keeps filmmakers like me on the map and inspired to keep creating.
Aurora Guerrero shares her inspiration, challenges, opportunities, and SFFS' impact on Los Valientes / The Brave Ones, recent SFFS / KRF grant-winning film project.
Read MoreWe just announced the latest round of filmmakers who have been awarded FilmHouse Residencies, moving in February 2014!
Read MoreAs a filmmaker, I want to open a window to a world unknown to audiences.
Josef Wladyka shares his inspiration, challenges, opportunities, and SFFS' impact on Manos Sucias, recent SFFS / KRF grant-winning film.
Read MoreLast week, SFFS Education hosted six free screenings of Fruitvale Station—with director Ryan Coogler and other special guests in attendance—for a combined audience of just over 2,000 teachers and students in San Francisco and Berkeley, including four theater screenings, one school screening, and one visit to the SF Juvenile Justice Center.
Read MoreThe official selections have been announced Sundance Festival 2014. Among them are seven films that the Film Society has supported through Filmmaker360 grants and services!
Read MorePaolo Sorrentino's latest feature The Great Beauty - aka Italy's submission for Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film and New Italian Cinema's Closing Night Film - is opening this Friday in the Bay Area!
Read MoreCinema by the Bay director Zoran Lisinac guest blogs on his “cross media” casting in Along the Roadside and his development on “Open Vein Cinema” - featuring free-flowing storytelling without sweeteners, censors or gatekeepers.
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In anticipation of this Friday's release of Boyhood with the filmmaker returning to SF for a round of Q&As, watch the onstage interview with Richard Linklater and Parker Posey and Boyhood Q&A from An Evening with Richard Linklater at the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival!
The San Francisco Film Society wrapped its 57th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 24–May 8) with 263 screenings of 168 films from 56 countries, which were attended by over 300 filmmakers and industry guests from over 20 countries. Over 15 days, SFIFF57 showed 74 narrative features, 29 documentary features and a total of 65 short films. See all the highlights and photo galleries!
Last night, the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival announced the winners of the juried Golden Gate Award and New Directors Prize competitions at an event held at Rouge | Nick’s Crispy Tacos. This year the Festival awarded nearly $40,000 in prizes to emerging and established filmmakers from 13 countries around the globe!
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