• News & Blogs
  
  

  SF Film Society Names Bingham Ray Executive Director

  Oct 19, 2011

  Press release: San Francisco Film Society announced the appointment of Bingham Ray as its executive director, effective November 7, 2011. Ray comes to the San Francisco Film Society from New York City, where he recently served as the first run programming consultant to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, executive consultant to the digital distribution company SnagFilms and adjunct professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. More at sffs.org.

  
• December 23, 2010
  
  

  Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube

  Susan Gerhard
  Dec 22, 2010

  Is this what we talk about when we talk about YouTube?

  
• December 28, 2010
  
  

  Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube

  Susan Gerhard
  Dec 22, 2010

  Is this what we talk about when we talk about YouTube?

  
• Home
  
  

  Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube

  Susan Gerhard
  Dec 22, 2010

  Is this what we talk about when we talk about YouTube?

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube

  Susan Gerhard
  Dec 22, 2010

  Is this what we talk about when we talk about YouTube?

  
• Digital
  
  

  A Digital Glossary

  Hannah Eaves
  Jun 8, 2010

  What s the difference between streaming and download rights? Here s a glossary of terms filmmakers should know before signing a contract or hiring a web developer.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Independent Inuit Films at YBCA

  Dennis Harvey
  Apr 8, 2010

  Inuit peoples—the indigenous cultures rooted in Arctic regions from Alaska to Greenland—have an honored place in film history, dating to Flaherty's Nanook of the North.

  
• Digital
  
  

  Sights and Sounds of South by Southwest

  Hannah Eaves
  Mar 24, 2010

  Tens of thousands of artists, aficionados and businesspeople flock to Austin for a festival that is part online conference, part film festival, and more than part music.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES

  Adam Hartzell
  Mar 21, 2010

  Think of U.S. public television and science fiction or any type of fiction doesn't spring to mind. ITVS aims to change that perception with a series of mini-features.

  
• In Production
  
  

  Final Chapter in Kelly and Yamamoto's Art Trilogy

  Michael Fox
  Feb 16, 2010

  Transformation, of any kind, an ephemeral, elusive thing to capture on film. One advisor told Nancy Kelly she'd never do it. Difficult, sure, but impossible?

  
• Festivals
  
  

  SF Indiefest at Twelve

  Matt Sussman
  Feb 4, 2010

  It s a strange time for independent film, with scaled-back specialty divisions and online self-distribution, but SF Indiefest remains a champion of the unsung and un-buzzable.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends

  Susan Gerard
  Dec 31, 2009

  While the U.S. moved from rebuilding decimated skyscrapers to the rebuilding of an entire economy, film moved from the multiplex to the mailbox to the mobile.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  After Sept. 11, 2001, A Decade Found Its Way

  B. Ruby Rich
  Dec 23, 2009

  On Sept. 13, 2001, I stood in a Toronto park and spoke to Canadian television: Movies wouldn't be the same. I was wrong.

  
• In Production
  
  

  Bay Area Narrative Filmmakers Thriving in Doc Capital

  Michael Fox
  Dec 23, 2009

  Michael Fox shows independent filmmakers who are thriving in the Bay Area.

  
• Digital
  
  

  Coming Around to 'Convergence'

  Hannah Eaves
  Dec 7, 2009

  The 6th Screen: Hannah Eaves compiles some questions about "convergence", the increasingly popular practice of combining television and computer usage. 

  
• Digital
  
  

  TechCrunch 50: Clicker and AnyClip

  Hannah Eaves
  Sep 28, 2009

  AnyClip and Clicker are standouts at TechCrunch's annual conference, where startups a chance to pitch to expert judges and investors.

  
• Digital
  
  

  Free and Open: Video's Cambrian Explosion

  Hannah Eaves
  Jul 27, 2009

  The Sixth Screen: Veteran journalists and filmmakers alike are polishing up their resumes, contemplating the hospitality industry, and wondering: Who stole my career?

  
• Reviews
  
  

  SFIFF52: Jim Granato's "D tour"

  Dan Cowles
  Apr 19, 2009

  Local filmmaker Jim Granato, whose movie D tour follows the band Rogue Wave and its ailing drummer Pat Spurgeon, on tour and on dialysis, is competing for the San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award in Documentary.

  
• Digital
  
  

  Augmented Reality at SXSWi

  Hannah Eaves
  Apr 14, 2009

  The 6th Screen: Hannah Eaves recommends Twitter, Meebo, Facebook, Ning and eNewsletters as film promotion tools.

  
• First Person
  
  

  Ten Commandments Before Diving into Digital Delivery

  Larry Daressa
  Feb 24, 2009

  First-Person: Larry Daressa provides helpful hints on distribution strategy.

  
• First Person
  
  

  Ten Commandments Before Diving into Digital Delivery

  Larry Daressa
  Feb 24, 2009

  First-Person: Larry Daressa provides helpful hints on distribution strategy.

  
• Legal
  
  

  Casting: Names and Numbers

  George Rush
  Jan 16, 2009

  Avoiding Disaster: George Rush writes on the conundrum of not getting money for a project without a known cast, and not getting a cast without a bunch of money.

  
• Legal
  
  

  Notes on Digital Distribution

  George Rush
  Oct 8, 2008

  Avoiding Disaster: George Rush offers tips on bridging the worlds of creativity and business.

  
• Digital
  
  

  SWAG: Free Feature Films On the Web

  Hannah Eaves
  Sep 26, 2008

  The Sixth Screen: Here are some browser-based legal zones for free online feature film viewing pleasure. No installation required.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Christopher Coppola Wants You

  Robert Avila
  Dec 6, 2007

  Somewhere between iPhone and YouTube there’s a wee festival known as miniPAH. A more slender version of PAH-FEST, the touring weeklong digital film festival founded a year and a half ago by filmmaker Christopher Coppola, “miniPAH: San Francisco” happens this weekend at Coppola’s alma mater, San Francisco Art Institute, ahead of a full-fledged Bay Area PAH sometime next year.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Digital Festival

  Michael Fox
  May 2, 2007

  Movies are shifting at mach speed from the theater to the home. The future is at hand.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  15 Minutes of YouTube

  Justin Juul
  Feb 2, 2007

  The List: A collection of individuals who caught my eye in an intense week of YouTube scouring. Most have gotten upwards of one million views.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  InDplay and The New Art of Film Distribution

  Justin Juul
  Nov 20, 2006

  The Redwood City-based startup InDplay is like an online dating service for the film industry.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  A Cinequest 35

  Susan Gerhard
  Nov 17, 2006

  Cinequest announces a plan to distribute indie films via DVD, the Internet, TV, and some traditional theatrical sales.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  Case Studies in Indie Distribution at Digimart

  Sean Uyehara
  Nov 8, 2006

  The resounding refrain at Digimart 2006 was that the traditional model of independent film and video distribution was dying.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  Netflix 101, a Dispatch from IFP's Filmmaker Conference

  Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
  Sep 22, 2006

  A panel discussion yields insights into the presentÑand futureÑof indie distribution.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  TurnHere's Travel Videos

  Susan Gerhard
  Aug 18, 2006

  There's one resource on the Net where some of the best travel videos have congregated, the Emervyille company aptly named TurnHere.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  All About Eva

  Susan Gerhard
  Aug 11, 2006

  The List: Ten faves from Eva Sollberger's YouTube series, The Deadbeat Club, which revisits the decade she spent working in the Bay Area film community.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  International REMIX

  Susan Gerhard
  Apr 19, 2006

  If you haven't yet found your repurpose in life, SFIFF's International Remix site might be of use.