Mar 30, 2010
Festival
The 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival is proud and honored to have outstanding support in 2010. This year has brought the Festival new and innovative partnerships and once again secured returning support from numerous individuals and organizations. Sponsors enable SFIFF and the San Francisco Film Society to thrive, expand and ensure that an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery reaches Festival audiences.
PREMIER SPONSORS
SFIFF congratulates Wells Fargo for its exemplary support of all the major arts and cultural organizations across the Bay Area. Wells Fargo is a longtime supporter of the Film Society’s Schools at the Festival program, Community Outreach efforts and Membership Program.
PRESENTING SPONSORS
The Festival is delighted to welcome its newest sponsors BNY Mellon Wealth Management and ZonePerfect Nutrition Bars, this year’s Audience Awards sponsor. ZonePerfect Nutrition Bars will be distributed throughout the Festival. San Simeon Films is supporting the screenings of The Practice of the Wild and Blue Angel Vodka, America’s next top vodka, returns as the Festival’s Official Vodka and will be featured throughout SFIFF at designated events and venues. Stella Artois is the ongoing Official Beer of SFIFF and continues to show its support for independent film by sponsoring the Shorts section of the Festival. Contemporary French cinema has continued sponsorship from TV5 Monde; Cultural Services, Consulate General of France; the French-American Cultural Society in San Francisco with additional support this year from Bank of the West.
PARTNER SPONSORS
The Festival is honored to welcome back Visa as a corporate partner supporting the SFFS Youth Education program, in particular Schools at the Festival and Film Society Awards Night. The Festival is pleased to have year-round support from Esurance as sponsor of the animation, design and technology programs in the Festival and the San Francisco International Animation Festival in the fall each year. SFIFF longtime partners, the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office of San Francisco and Cathay Pacific Airways are returning as supporters of the Hong Kong films in the Festival, Teddy Chen’s Bodyguards and Assassins and Johnnie To’s Vengeance.
Magnanimus Wine Group is the Official Wine presenting a green portfolio of sustainable, organic and biodynamic wines. This year, Mendocino Farms and Chameleon Cellars wine brands will be featured throughout the Festival.
CHAMPION SPONSORS
SFIFF53 is pleased to have renewed support from Gucci and The Film Foundationas they continue their traveling preservation screening series, and the Festival will present the latest from their Cinema Visionaries program, a new print of Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece, Senso. SFIFF continues to receive ongoing support from Dolby Laboratories, with additional technical support for all SFFS year-round programs.
KEY DONORS AND FOUNDATIONS
The San Francisco Film Society gratefully acknowledges the support of George Gund III; Kanbar Charitable Trust, administered by the Jewish Community Endowment Fund; William R. Hearst III; Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; National Endowment for the Arts; The Goldman Environmental Prize; The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Kenneth Rainin Foundation; The Dexter F. and Dorothy H. Baker Foundation; Walter & Elise Haas Fund; The Hearst Foundations; The Koret Foundation; The LEF Foundation; The Louis R. Lurie Foundation; NAMAC, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture; Peter J. Owens Trust of The San Francisco Foundation; The San Francisco Foundation; Tin Man Fund; Nellie Wong Magic of Movies Education Fund; Zellerbach Family Foundation; Film Society members; and contributors to the Annual Fund of the San Francisco Film Society.
MAJOR SPONSORS
Joie de Vivre Hotels, Host Hotel Company
Landmark Theatres
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, Home of the Festival
CREATIVE SPONSORS
Method, Agency Partner
EFILM Digital Laboratories
Gunshop
Kodak
Patrick Gilles & Bob Gilles
Rough House
OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNERS
Alice @ 97.3 FM KLLC
Amoeba Music
CBS 5 TV / The CW 44cable12
Classical 102.1FM KDFC
KDTV Univision 14 and KFSF Telefutura 66
KFOG Radio 104.5 / 97.7FM
KQED Public Broadcasting
KTSF 26
Netflix
944 Magazine
Quickmobile
San Francisco Chronicle|SFGate.com
San Francisco magazine
7×7
SF Station
Yelp!
PROMOTIONAL SPONSORS
JCDecaux
Titan
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
AT&T
AT&T Yellow Pages
The Auteurs
Chameleon Cellars
Crumpler
Executive Transportation Club
The Fillmore Center
Fuzio Universal Bistro
Give Something Back
Japan Center Garage
Magnanimus Wine Group
Martha & Brothers Coffee
Mendocino Farms
Oakland Film Office
Snader & Associates
Somersault Snack
Thrifty
Tuolumne River Trust
Uptime Resources
TECHNICAL SPONSORS
Adolph Gasser
Brickley Production Services
Dream Dynamic
Filmwurks
Flying Moose Pictures
Holzmueller Productions
reFRACTion
RF Audio
Tekamaki
CONSULATES AND CULTURAL INSTITUTES
Consulate General of Argentina, Los Angeles
Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco
Consulate General of France, San Francisco
Consulate General of Israel, San Francisco
Consulate General of Italy, San Francisco
Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco/The Japan Foundation
Consulate General of Mexico, San Francisco
Consulate General of Sweden, San Francisco
Consulate General of Switzerland, San Francisco
French-American Cultural Society, San Francisco
Goethe-Institut San Francisco
Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco
PROCHILE
Québec Government Office, Los Angeles
Royal Norwegian Consulate General, San Francisco
Swiss Films
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, San Francisco
HOTELS
Hotel Carlton, a Joie de Vivre Hotel
Hotel Kabuki, a Joie de Vivre Hotel
Hotel Vitale, a Joie de Vivre Hotel
Laurel Inn, a Joie de Vivre Hotel
Phoenix Hotel, a Joie de Vivre Hotel
Hotel Vitale, a Joie de Vivre Hotel
Adante Hotel
Beresford Hotels
C-Two Hotels
CLIFT
The Fairmont San Francisco
Greystone Hotels
Hilton San Francisco
Hotel des Arts
Hotel Fusion
Hotel Griffon
Hotel Mark Twain
Hotel Triton
The Inn at Union Square W San Francisco
Kimpton Hotels
King George Hotel
The Mosser Hotel
Prescott Hotel
Queen Anne Hotel
The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco
The St. Regis San Francisco
Stratford Hotel
Warwick San Francisco Hotel Chancellor Hotel Union Square
The Westin St. Francis
VENUES
Manor West
The Regency Center
Temple Nightclub-Prana Restaurant
1015 Folsom
W San Francisco
The Westin St. Francis