While the new year kicks the 2022 film festival season into high gear, the SFFILM Programming team has been hard at work since last fall screening and inviting films to the 65th San Francisco International Film Festival, which takes place April 21 through May 1 in the Bay Area. …

SFFILM has announced the winner of its New American Fellowship, a program started in 2017 to support international artists who have made the United States their home and want to tell their stories through film. The first of its kind in the US film industry, the New American Fellowship is…

We are thrilled to to welcome a new group of Bay Area–based storytellers to take up residence at FilmHouse, SFFILM’s dynamic shared workspace for independent filmmakers. FilmHouse residencies, made possible by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation with additional funding from the San Francisco Film Commission and the San Francisco Foundation, supports…

As we close out 2021 I am filled with immense optimism and much gratitude for the resiliency of the power of film. This faith comes from seeing our wonderful audiences returning to theaters; it comes in the form of filmmakers creating new work; it comes in the gathering of community…

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival makes its return on January 20 and two projects supported directly by SFFILM Makers are in the lineup! We are thrilled that SFFILM Invest continues to fund projects that go on to Sundance and more, and beyond proud to see Reid Davenport’s project I Didn’t…

The SFFILM Makers team has selected 13 outstanding non-fiction projects to as finalists for this year’s Documentary Film Fund (DFF) grants, which support feature-length docs in the post-production phase. A total of $60,000 will be distributed to the winning projects in this cycle, which will be announced in early December…

Two screenwriters, Christopher Au and Jonathan Sethna, have been selected to receive funding through SFFILM’s Sloan Stories of Science Development Fund, which is part of a suite of screenwriting programs that cultivate narrative feature films exploring scientific or technological themes and characters. This artist support program was developed in partnership…

On Being Like Water by Patricia Lee “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.” — Bruce Lee I am a filmmaker and current SFFILM FilmHouse resident. Three years ago I could not have fathomed that sentence applying to me…

SFFILM and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation are excited to announce the finalists for the 2021 SFFILM Rainin Grant, the flagship artist development program offered by SFFILM Makers. Thirty filmmaking teams have been shortlisted as contenders to receive funding for their narrative projects in various stages of production. The SFFILM Rainin…