Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 25, 2009 under Awards, Film Festival, Foreign Film | 
Valeria Solarino and Donatella Maiorca
New Italian Cinema, presented by the San Francisco Film Society, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and New Italian Cinema Events of Florence, Italy, wrapped up an eight-day run dedicated to celebrating the rich cinematic tradition of Italy and bringing the country’s newest directors and films to audiences in San Francisco. Director Donatella Maiorca was on hand to accept the NICE City of Florence Award for her film Sea Purple (Viola di mare).
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 12, 2009 under Filmmaking |
San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced Amanda Micheli for Tomboy and Jeff Zimbalist for The Scribe of Urabá as the winners of the Fall 2009 $35,000 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants, given to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes being made in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 20, 2009 under Awards, Screenwriting |
Mora Stephens (r) winner of the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards' John Cassavetes Award for Best Feature
The San Francisco Film Society today awarded the Hearst Screenwriting Grant to Mora Stephens for her script Made in the USA.
The Hearst Screenwriting Grant of $15,000 is given to a mid-career screenwriter who has been a practicing writer for at least five years and who has previously written a minimum of one feature screenplay.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 10, 2009 under Film Festival, Industry |
The San Francisco Film Society announced the appointment of Jennifer Chaiken and Todd Traina to its board of directors.
“We are immensely pleased to add the considerable talents and expertise of Jennifer Chaiken and Todd Traina to our board as the Film Society continues to expand,” said Pat McBaine, president of the Film Society’s board of directors. “They bring the fresh perspective of youth and filmmaker expertise to the SFFS board and will certainly contribute greatly to our increasing efforts to bring visionary and progressive programming to Bay Area audiences and valuable services to filmmakers nationwide.”
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 6, 2009 under Screenwriting |
San Francisco Film Society and The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced the ten finalists and 
two honorable mentions for the second $35,000 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant, to be given to a narrative feature film with a social justice theme being made in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the next five years SFFS and KRF will disburse a series of annual grants totaling more than $3 million.
The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time. The grants, which run 2009-13, will be awarded in the spring and fall of each year. Finalists and honorable mentions for the fall 2009 grant follow.
FINALISTS
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 24, 2009 under Screenwriting |
The San Francisco Film Society announced today the ten finalists for the Hearst Screenwriting Grant. This grant, supported by a gift from William R. Hearst III, and the Djerassi Residency Award/San Francisco Film Society Screenwriting Fellowship are the major components of the SFFS screenwriting initiative and the newest elements of the Film Society’s rapidly expanding Filmmaker Services program. The recipient of the Hearst Screenwriting Grant will be announced in late October.
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Tags: Britta Sjogren, Caveh Zahedi, Chesley Chen, Christina Chan, Hearst Screenwriting Grant, Jacob Kornbluth, Krisy Gosney, Marjory Kaptanoglu, Mateen Kemet, Mora Stephens, San Francisco Film Society, Sarah Bassine
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 23, 2009 under Coming-of-age, Foreign Film |
The Vanished Empire (Ischeznuvshaya imperiya, Russia 2008), Karen Shakhnazarov’s beautiful coming-of-age story set at the brink of the end of the Soviet Empire, opens Friday, October 23 on San Francisco Film Society Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 2, 2009 under Filmmaking, Industry |
The San Francisco Film Society announced today the third round of filmmakers who have been awarded SFFS FilmHouse Residencies. This innovative program, developed in partnership with the San Francisco Film Commission and launched in November 2008, supports local independent filmmaking by making office space available free of charge to filmmakers actively engaged in various stages of film production. The newest recipients are all filmmakers working on nonfiction projects in postproduction stages, and they join a group of established residents working in many different styles and genres and in all stages of production. FilmHouse, part of the Film Society’s expanding filmmaker services programs, functions as a vibrant workshop and community builder for local filmmakers of all stripes.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on August 17, 2009 under Film Festival, Foreign Film |
In You, the Living (Du levande, Sweden 2007, San Francisco International Film Festival 2008), opening Friday, September 25 on San Francisco Film Society Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, Roy Andersson continues to display his unique take on humanity in this amalgamation of encounters and tableaux covering various facets of existence.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on July 24, 2009 under Screenwriting |
The San Francisco Film Society announced this week an exciting new partnership with William R. Hearst III that will launch the second SFFS screenwriting initiative, the newest element of the Film Society’s rapidly expanding Filmmaker Services program.
The Hearst Screenwriting Grant of $15,000 will be given to a mid-career screenwriter who has been a practicing writer for at least five years and who has previously written a minimum of one feature screenplay. The grant is open to writers residing in the United States whose project expresses both a unique personal perspective and an artistic approach to the subject. Priority will be given to writers whose previous short or feature screenplays have been produced as an independent film. This grant is supported by a gift from William R. Hearst III.
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