Mar 29, 2011
Festival
The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21-May 5) is proud and honored to have outstanding support in 2011. 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 arts and cultural organizations throughout 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 thrilled to welcome Grolsch, the Opening Night sponsor and exclusive beer provider, who is proud to be celebrating the spirit of independent film with the Grolsch Film Works program, a new initiative launched to support up-and-coming talent in the industry. Blue Angel Vodka returns as the Festival’s Official Vodka and will be featured throughout SFIFF at designated events and venues. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences supports the Festival’s World Cinema Spotlight, calling attention to a current trend in filmmaking. This year’s Spotlight, Painting with Light, focuses on three films about paintings and their creators. Longtime fan and presenting sponsor Esurance is supporting the Festival’s Persistence of Vision Award, the Esurance Online Screening Room and Scoop du Jour Festival coverage. Contemporary French cinema has continued sponsorship from TV5 Monde, Bank of the West, the French American Cultural Society and the Consulate General of France, San Francisco. San Simeon Films continues to show its support of the documentary form by sponsoring the screenings of Something Ventured.
PARTNER SPONSORS
SFIFF welcomes Saab as the Centerpiece sponsor and looks forward to utilizing their vehicles for VIP transportation throughout the Festival. 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. SFIFF’s 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, The Stool Pigeon and Love in a Puff.
CHAMPION SPONSORS
SFIFF54 is pleased to have renewed support from Gucci and The Film Foundationas they continue their preservation screening series. The Festival will present the latest from their Cinema Visionaries program, a new restored print of Federico Fellini’s masterpiece, La Dolce Vita. The San Francisco Film Commission is pleased to celebrate Bay Area filmmaking with its support of Crime After Crime. SFIFF continues to receive ongoing support from Dolby Laboratories, with additional technical support for all SFFS year-round programs.
FOUNDATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
The San Francisco Film Society gratefully acknowledges the support of Dexter F. and Dorothy H. Baker Foundation; The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation; The Goldman Environmental Prize; Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; Walter & Elise Haas Fund; The Hearst Foundations; The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; The Japan Foundation; Koret Foundation; LEF Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Peter J. Owens Trust of The San Francisco Foundation; Kenneth Rainin Foundation; The San Francisco Foundation; Taproot Foundation; Tin Man Fund; Union Bank Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Wells Fargo Foundation and Nellie Wong Magic of Movies Education Fund.
MAJOR SPONSORS
Landmark Theatres
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, Home of the Festival
CREATIVE SPONSORS
Method, Agency Partner
Becker Design & Film Direction
EFilm
Kodak
PRESENTING MEDIA SPONSOR
San Francisco Chronicle I SFGate.com
MEDIA PARTNERS
Alice @ 97.3 KLLC
Amoeba Music
CBS 5 TV & The CW 44cable12
Classical KDFC 90.3 SF – 89.9 N & E Bay
Hecho en California Radio
KDTV Univision 14 and KFSF TeleFutura 66
KQED Public Broadcasting
KTSF26
Netflix
944 magazine
San Francisco magazine
7×7 magazine
SF Guide
SF Station
Wired
Yelp!
PROMOTIONAL SPONSORS
Comcast
JCDecaux
Outdoor Revolution
San Francisco Recreation and Parks
Titan
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
American Airlines
AT&T Advertising Solutions
Bar Jules
CineClean
Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco
Crumpler
Cumaica Coffee
Discoveries Vineyards
The Fillmore Center
Give Something Back
Japan Center Garage
LUNA
Mendocino Farms
Québec Government Office, Los Angeles
Snader & Associates
Thrifty
TECHNICAL SPONSORS
Adolph Gasser
Brickley Production Services
Dream Dynamic
filmwurks
Flying Moose Pictures
Holzmueller Productions
reFRACTion
Rental Express Video
RF Audio
Stingray Sound
Tekamaki
Uptime Resources
CONSULATES AND CULTURAL INSTITUTES
Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles
Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco
Consulate General of France, San Francisco
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, San Francisco
Consulate General of Italy, San Francisco
Consulate General of Mexico, San Francisco
Consulate General of Sweden, San Francisco
French American Cultural Society, San Francisco
Goethe-Institut San Francisco
Netherlands Cultural Services
Québec Government Office, Los Angeles
Royal Norwegian Consulate General, San Francisco
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, San Francisco
HOTELS
Adante Hotel
Andrews Hotel
Beresford Hotels
Chancellor Hotel Union Square
CLIFT
CTwo Hotels
Executive Hotel Vintage Court
The Fairmont San Francisco
Galleria Park Hotel
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Hotel Adagio
Hotel Carlton
Hotel Del Sol
Hotel des Arts
Hotel Frank
Hotel Fusion
Hotel Kabuki
Hotel Mark Twain
Hotel Rex
Hotel Stratford
Hotel Tomo
Hotel Triton
Hotel Vitale
Joie De Vivre
Laurel Inn
The Opal San Francisco
Phoenix Hotel
The St. Regis San Francisco
Warwick San Francisco Hotel
W San Francisco
The Westin St. Francis
VENUES
Bimbo’s 365 Club
CLIFT
The Factory
Temple Nightclub-Prana Restaurant
Terra Gallery
W San Francisco
For more information visit fest11.sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
54th San Francisco International Film Festival
The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 21-May 5, 2011 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre, New People and SFMOMA in San Francisco and the Pacific Film Archive Theater in Berkeley. Held each spring for 15 days, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in the country’s most beautiful city, featuring 15 juried awards, 200 films and live events with upwards of 100 participating filmmakers and diverse audiences of 75,000+ people.