The new year is just around the corner, which means it’s time 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, supports both narrative and documentary films by providing 12-month residencies to filmmakers actively engaged in various stages of production.
FilmHouse is the only year-round artist residency program of its kind. In addition to flex use workspace, FilmHouse residents will be provided with dedicated rooms for writing and editing their films, and special access to established industry professionals offering mentorship, office hours, and deeper artistic guidance from their various areas of expertise. Other resident benefits will include a robust guest speaker series, featuring lectures and presentations by leading industry professionals; workshops led by prominent filmmakers and other members of the independent film industry; peer-to-peer support; work-in-progress screenings; bi-weekly production meetings; access to meaningful networking opportunities; and numerous other community-building programs.
Let’s meet the 31 residents that will be taking their projects to the next stage — whether it be screenwriting or post-production — at FilmHouse in 2020.
2020 FILMHOUSE RESIDENTS — 12-MONTH TERMS
(* denotes extension of previous residency)
Liz Anderson* — Cordyceps — narrative feature, screenwriting / development
Natalie Baszile* — Good People — narrative feature, screenwriting
Erin Brethauer — Another Day in Paradise — documentary feature, production
Christy Chan* — Dear Wizard — narrative feature, screenwriting
Darren Colston* — Grandpa’s Hands — narrative feature, screenwriting
Jennifer Chang Crandall — Whitman, Alabama — hybrid documentary feature, production
Daniel Freeman* — Teddy, Out of Tune — hybrid documentary feature, post-production
Contessa Gayles — No Time to Waste (working title) — hybrid documentary feature, development
Jen Gilomen — Delivering Justice: A Movement Is Born — documentary feature, development
Marjolaine Grappe — The Envelope — documentary feature, production
Dee Hibbert-Jones* — Run with It — animated documentary feature, production
Alexandra “Alle” Hsu* — Queens — narrative feature, screenwriting / development
Tim Hussin — Another Day in Paradise — documentary feature, production
Emily Cohen Ibañez* — Fruits of Labor — documentary feature, post-production
Yvan Iturriaga* — American Babylon — narrative feature, development
Jonathan Kiefer — So Fast They Follow — narrative feature, screenwriting
Eugene Kim — Press Only — narrative feature, screenwriting
Erin Semine Kökdil — La Caravana — documentary short, production / post-production
Luke Lorentzen — Untitled Marine Salvage Documentary — documentary feature, development
Simran Mahal — Americanized — narrative short, post-production
summer fucking mason — 818 — narrative feature, production
Ed Ntiri — A Lo-Fi Blues — narrative feature, screenwriting
Erin Persley* — Human Shield — documentary feature, development / production
Reaa Puri — K for Kashmir — documentary feature, development
Débora Souza Silva* — Black Mothers — documentary feature, production
Nomi Talisman — Run with It — animated documentary feature, production
Tasha Van Zandt — After Antarctica — documentary feature, post-production
Ellie Wen — Elementary (working title) — documentary feature, development
Taylor Whitehouse — Nobody Has a Plan — narrative feature, screenwriting
Sephora Woldu — Aliens in Eritrea — narrative feature, screenwriting / development
Sebastian Zeck — After Antarctica — documentary feature, post-production
For more information about SFFILM’s artist development programs, visit sffilm.org/makers.
