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Our first announcement for the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 24–May 8): the films in competition for the New Directors Prize and the Golden Gate Award (GGA) contenders in the documentary feature category!
Read MoreSebastian Silva talks about encouraging his actors to improvise, breaking the rules of American film making, and nurturing a creative vision.
Read MoreSan Francisco Film Society and Kenneth Rainin Foundation just selected 15 projects for the latest round of SFFS / Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant finalists. A total of $300,000 will be awarded to one or more narrative feature films! Get to know the talented finalists and projects below and keep an out for the winners in late April.
Read MoreFour SFIFF alumni are nominated for this year's Oscars. Four of them - Morgan Neville, Joshua Oppenheimer, Richard Linklater, and Zachary Heinzerling - brought their currently nominated films to the 56th SFIFF last year. Try to spot them at the awards on Sunday!
Read MoreOscar-winning actors, actresses, directors, writers, and producers have graced the San Francisco International Film Festival many times in years past. Quite a few of them picked up SFFIF's own awards while here, including the Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting, the Akira Kurosawa Award in directing, and the Founder's Directing Award. Let's take a trip down a red-carpet-lined memory lane.
Read More“The experience of watching a film in a beautiful cinema continues to be among the most rewarding of contemporary cultural experiences.”
We caught up with Noah Cowan for a quick Q&A on the occasion of our exciting announcement.
Read MoreAh love, sweet love. Love can be expressed in many ways - and not always paired with red roses. We'd love to relive and share some special moments presented by our 56th SF International Film Festival guests.
Read MoreSFFS-supported Bluebird has its West Coast premiere at SF Indiefest this weekend and French Cinema Now favorite Stranger by the Lake screens in Bay Area theaters.
Read MoreSFFS just announced the 11 finalists for the 2014 SFFS Documentary Film Fund! Awards totaling more than $75,000 will be given to feature-length documentaries in postproduction.
Read MoreFounder of one of the most respected motion picture archives in the world, the Prelinger Archives, Rick Prelinger premiered No More Road Trips? at Castro Theatre during the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival, May 5, 2013, and just released its trailer!
Read MoreNow available on VoD and DVD are the award-winning and SFFS/KRF grant-funded films Fruitvale Station and Short Term 12!
Read MoreOn our Watch page, we just added fifteen films that screened at our 56th SF International Film Festival and are available to stream online.
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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!
