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Deadlines
Funding: San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Cultural Equity Grants
Nov 10, 2011San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Cultural Equity Grants provide "financial support for the enrichment of San Francisco's multicultural landscape." ELIGIBILITY: Organization Project Grants provide up to $15,000 to support the presentation of high quality works of art and arts activities, including film and video screenings and arts festivals. All art forms will be considered. To be eligible, organizations must have 501(c)(3) status or use a fiscal sponsor. Grant Period: June 15, 2012 - December 31, 2013. AWARDS: Grants awards are up to 15,000 to support the enhancement of arts facilities in the city. DEADLINE: November 10, 2011. WEBSITE: sfartscommission.org/ceg/grants/index.html#opg.
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Funding: Catapult Film Fund
Nov 7, 2011Catapult Film Fund provides early development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell. It supports powerful stories, and moving storytelling, across a broad spectrum of issues and perspectives. ELIGIBILITY: Applicant must be 18 or older. Catapult Film Fund does not award grants for student films. Documentary projects must be 28 minutes or longer. Development funds must specifically be used to complete early writing, shooting and editing once story and characters are in place. Applicants must be independent producers. They must own the copyright of their production, and have artistic, budgetary and editorial control of their project. Applicants must have previous film or television production experience in a principal role as demonstrated by submitting previously completed work sample. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have successfully fund-raised for an independent documentary film, in line with its original budget. AWARDS: Catapult Film Fund development grants range from $5,000 to $20,000. DEADLINE: November 7, 2011. WEBSITE: catapultfilmfund.org/.
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Funding: Durfee Foundation Artists' Resource for Completion Grants
Nov 1, 2011Durfee Foundation Artists' Resource for Completion Grants give individual artists money to complete work for a specific, imminent opportunity that may significantly benefit their career. AWARDS: up to $3,500. ELIGIBILITY Artists must be Los Angeles County residents, 21 years or older and have secured an invitation from an established organization to present the work. Full-time students are ineligible. Current DEADLINE: Quarterly, current November 1, 2011. WEBSITE: durfee.org/programs/arc/index.html.
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Funding: TFI Documentary Fund
Oct 10, 2011The TFI Documentary Fund provides grants and guidance to exceptional filmmakers developing engaging feature-length documentaries which emphasize character and that allow audiences to consider history, culture and society through the experiences of extraordinary individuals. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must be non-fiction motion pictures with an intended length of at least 70 minutes and should creatively document unique character(s); submissions can be in the advanced stages of development, production or post-production and must not have aired on any form. Foreign language documentaries are eligible, but must be subtitled and suitable for an American audience. Applicants must be over 18-years old. $25 entry fee. AWARDS: Grants of at least $10,000 will be awarded in 2012. DEADLINE: October 10, 2011. WEBSITE: tribecafilminstitute.org/tfi_documentary/.
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Funding: TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund
Oct 10, 2011The TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund supports innovative film and video artists who are living or working in Mexico, Central and South America and working independently in their efforts to reach a larger audience. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must be animation, documentary and/or hybrid feature-length films with an intended length of at least 70 minutes. Submissions must be in production or post-production and must not have aired on any form of television, been screened publicly or have been distributed in theaters or via the internet. Projects may be in any language or dialect. Applicants must be over 18 years old. Student films and stand-alone short films are not eligible for submission. $25 entry fee. AWARDS: Last year, the Fund administered $10,000 grants to four selected films. In addition to funding, each grantee will receive a U.S. based advisor and guidance from the Tribeca Film Institute. DEADLINE: October 10, 2011. WEBSITE: tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/latin_fund/.
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News & Blogs
SFFS Announces Winners of Documentary Film Fund Awards
Sep 21, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Film Society today announced the three winners of the inaugural SFFS Documentary Film Fund grants. The Fund was created to support the postproduction of singular feature-length nonfiction film work that is distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters and an innovative visual approach. Each year from 2011 to 2013, a total of $100,000 will be disbursed to further new work by documentary filmmakers nationwide. Winners are: Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, An American Promise, $25,000; Priya Desai and Ann Kim, Match +, $25,000; Zachary Heinzerling, Cutie & the Boxe, $50,000. For more information go to: sffs.org/filmmaker-services.
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Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’
Susan Gerhard
Sep 10, 2011Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.
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Q & A
Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’
Susan Gerhard
Sep 10, 2011Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.
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September 15, 2011
Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’
Susan Gerhard
Sep 10, 2011Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.
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Deadlines
Funding: The Roy W. Dean LA August Grant
Aug 30, 2011The Roy W. Dean Film and Writing Grants fund shorts, documentaries and low budget independent features. ELIGIBILITY: New film and video projects (including works-in-progress) that are unique and benefit the society. Student filmmakers, independent producers or independent production companies are all welcome. AWARDS: Winner gets a variety of awards including scholarships and cash prizes for different production fields. DEADLINE: August 30, 2011. WEBSITE: fromtheheartproductions.com/grant-lavideo.shtml.
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August 25, 2011
ITVS Celebrates 20th Tuned to Multi-Platform World
Michael Fox
Aug 24, 2011Powerfully positioned San Francisco-based champion of independent docs and dramas for television begins to navigate its third decade.
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ITVS Celebrates 20th Tuned to Multi-Platform World
Michael Fox
Aug 24, 2011Powerfully positioned San Francisco-based champion of independent docs and dramas for television begins to navigate its third decade.
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News & Blogs
ITVS Celebrates 20th Tuned to Multi-Platform World
Michael Fox
Aug 24, 2011Powerfully positioned San Francisco-based champion of independent docs and dramas for television begins to navigate its third decade.
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News & Blogs
SFFS Announces Winners of Spring 2011 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants
Aug 15, 2011The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the five winners and two honorable mentions of the fifth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants. The grants are awarded twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. Between 2009 and 2013 the SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants will award nearly $2.5 million, including a total of $788,000 already awarded in the first five grant rounds.
Carlton Evans and Matthew Lessner (Ross), $50,000 for screenwriting; Aurora Guerrero (Mosquita y Mari), $88,000 for postproduction; Adam Keker (National Park), $35,000 for screenwriting; Timothy Kelly (The Cherokee Word for Water), $75,000 for production; Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of a Southern Wild), $55,000 for postproduction. Honorable Mentions went to: John Dilly (Rubbish), development and Ian Olds (The Western Habit), screenwriting. More at sffs.org.
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News & Blogs
San Francisco Film Society Announces New $300,000 Documentary Film Fund
Apr 22, 2011Press Release: The San Francisco Film Society announced the new SFFS Documentary Film Fund, which over the next three years will disburse a series of annual grants totaling $300,000 to support feature-length documentaries in postproduction. The SFFS Documentary Film Fund is created to support singular nonfiction film work that is distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters and an innovative visual approach. The first grant cycle application period opens June 17; the first winners will be announced September 30. More at sffs.org.
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News & Blogs
SFFS Announces Winner of Screenwriting Grant
Dec 20, 2010Press release: The San Francisco Film Society announced today that Eric Escobar has been selected to receive this year's SFFS/Hearst Screenwriting Grant for the continuing development of his script, East County. The $15,000 grant is given to support the work of a mid-career American screenwriter. More at SFFS.
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News & Blogs
SFFS/KRF Announce Fall 2010 Grant Recipients
Dec 6, 2010Press release: The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the five winners of the fourth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants: Debbie Brubaker, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Christopher Mason Johnson, Mike Ott and Morgan Wise. The grants are given twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. More at sffs.org.
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Home
Copyright Crosses Borders
George Rush
Nov 16, 2010Laws and treaties protect artists' rights overseas and make the permissions-gathering process all the more important for filmmakers.
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Legal
Copyright Crosses Borders
George Rush
Nov 16, 2010Laws and treaties protect artists' rights overseas and make the permissions-gathering process all the more important for filmmakers.
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November 18, 2010
Copyright Crosses Borders
George Rush
Nov 16, 2010Laws and treaties protect artists' rights overseas and make the permissions-gathering process all the more important for filmmakers.
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Essential SF: Marlon Riggs
Dennis Harvey
Nov 15, 2010From 'Tongues Untied' to 'Black Is.....Black Ain't,' Marlon Riggs' art was a series of radical acts that were both overdue and ahead of their time. Two decades ago, in post-Reagan America, the arts were under fire—one lit by a very particular religious right match. Feeling the heat was the National Endowment for the Arts, a then 25-year-old institution already pretty pitifully funded by comparison with most other developed nations’ governmental arts support. But the small portion of NEA grants that helped avant-garde or otherwise edgy art—as opposed to, say, the local Gilbert & Sullivan society or annual craft fair—provided plenty of opportunities...
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Marlon Riggs
Dennis Harvey
Nov 15, 2010From 'Tongues Untied' to 'Black Is.....Black Ain't,' Marlon Riggs' art was a series of radical acts that were both overdue and ahead of their time. Two decades ago, in post-Reagan America, the arts were under fire—one lit by a very particular religious right match. Feeling the heat was the National Endowment for the Arts, a then 25-year-old institution already pretty pitifully funded by comparison with most other developed nations’ governmental arts support. But the small portion of NEA grants that helped avant-garde or otherwise edgy art—as opposed to, say, the local Gilbert & Sullivan society or annual craft fair—provided plenty of opportunities...
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In Production
Griffin and Jordan Getting Nails Done
Michael Fox
May 12, 2010Today s fun fact: San Francisco has more nail salons per capita than any city in the country.
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News & Blogs
SF Chronicle: 'S.F. Film Festival Bestows Prizes'
May 7, 2010Almost $300,000 was given out Wednesday night for awards and grants honoring documentary winners.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2010Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.
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Reviews
New Social Issue Dramas from Rainin Grant-Winners
Michael Fox
Nov 24, 2009The scoop on the projects of the inaugural class for the SFFS/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, which support lively, intelligent social-issue narrative films.
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Reviews
Daven Gee Docs on the New American Family
Michael Fox
Nov 17, 2009Two films from Oakland filmmakers, Dhana & Indra and Family 2469, illuminate the changing face of the country as the 21st Century unfolds.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 7, 2009SFIFF handed out approximately $100,000 and announced the winner San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant during its Golden Gate Awards.
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Festivals
SF International Film Festival Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 31, 2009The two weeks of programs offers 151 films from 55 countries, awards and prices, and a wide array of San Francisco talent, from legendary names to the fledgling artists.
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Q & A
Cary Joji Fukunaga on the (Very) Bay Area Story Behind 'Sin Nombre'
Judy Stone
Mar 15, 2009His personal curiosity on family histories and some actual events, are behind this movie about complex families Ñthose in Mexican gangs and those traveling immigrants looking for a better life in the U.S.
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Reviews
Troell in Fine Form with 'Everlasting Moments'
Dennis Harvey
Mar 12, 2009Troell keeps everything emotionally intimate in this lovely film full of grace moments, that chronicles the early 20th-century travails of the Larsson family.
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Q & A
'Medicine for Melancholy' in the City it Re-discovered
Michael Fox
Mar 5, 2009Barry Jenkins talks abut his background, making movies in San Francisco and the issues of black identity, assimilation and gentrification, which are at the heart of his film.
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News & Blogs
Social Justice Filmmaking Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
Jan 28, 2009Grants totaling $3 million for narrative feature films made in the Bay Area will be distributed by the SFFS and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
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Funding
What Crisis? Fundraising During an Economic Meltdown
Holly Million
Dec 3, 2008Fear-Free Fundraising: Holly Million advises filmmakers on where to get funding when the going gets tough.
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Q & A
Yiyun Li, The Voice of 'A Thousand'
Judy Stone
Sep 30, 2008The title story of her Hemingway/Pen Award-winning collection of short stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, has been adapted by Wayne Wang.
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Q & A
S.F. Jewish Film Festival's Stein and Fishman
Michael Fox
Jul 21, 2008Programmers for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Peter Stein and Nancy Fishman, speak about never taking the path of least resistance.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: California Newsreel at 40
Erika Young
Apr 21, 2008Founded in 1968, San Francisco-based Newsreel is the oldest nonprofit, social-issue documentary film center in the U.S.
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News & Blogs
Roxie, The Vote
Susan Gerhard
Oct 6, 2006The List: 25 Bay Area landmarks, including the Roxie and the Fox Oakland, are vying for $1 million in preservation grants from American Express.
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Q & A
Cambodian Americans Exiled in New Film, Sentenced Home
Susan Gerhard
Mar 20, 2006A conversation with the filmmakers and one star of "Sentenced Home," about three Cambodian Americans in the process of being exiled.
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Deadlines
Funding: Academy Film Scholars Program
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Foundation Film Scholars Program is stimulating and supporting new and significant works of film scholarship. ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be established scholars, writers, historians or researchers possessing either a significant record of achievement, or exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments in their field. Applicants must have written and published at least one book or a comparable collection of articles or monographs. AWARDS: Two grants of $25,000 will be made to qualified and worthy applicants, as reviewed and selected by the Academy's Grants Committee and staff. The Academy will distribute the grant money in two parts: at the commencement and upon completion of the proposed project. The Academy will also cover travel, lodging and per diem expenses, if necessary, for the recipients to attend the Film Scholars awards luncheon and to make their lecture presentation. DEADLINE: Application materials must be received by October 3, 2011. WEBSITE: oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/filmscholars/apply.html.
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News & Blogs
SFFS and Kenneth Rainin Foundation Announce Fall 2010 Grant Finalists
SFFS Press Release: "The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced the ten finalists for the fourth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants of up to a total of $225,000, to be given to one or more feature films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, discrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time." More at sffs.org
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