Mar 30, 2010
Festival
This year SmartPhone users will have the entire SFIFF53 program at their fingertips via an iPhone app and mobile website proudly sponsored by QuickMobile. SFFS and QuickMobile have worked together to create a new and exciting film festival experience for both festival goers and fans worldwide.
Fans will access the SFIFF53 film guide and schedule, read about special panels and events, access top stories, meet the participating artists, search films, and watch videos. Other major features of the mobile solutions include sorting and searching films, film details page, festival schedule, venues, trailers, Facebook, Twitter, gallery, and more! These solutions deliver real-time information to festival goers and fans wherever they may be.
Patrick Payne, CEO of QuickMobile stated, “QuickMobile has become the mobile solutions vendor of choice for event and festival organizers worldwide. We appreciate the faith that the Film Society has placed in QuickMobile to deliver meaningful and relevant mobile solutions for fans of the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival.”
“We are very excited to adopt a mobile strategy for expanding the festival experience in a way that audiences have come to expect,” said Graham Leggat, executive director of the Film Society. “QuickMobile has proven to be a trusted mobile advisor and solution provider and we’re pleased to be partnering with them on our 53rd Festival.”
About SFFS
The San Francisco Film Society is a nonprofit arts and education organization dedicated to celebrating the world of film and media in four core areas: Internationalism and Cross-Cultural Exchange, Educating and Inspiring Bay Area Youth, Showcasing Bay Area Film Culture and Exploring New Media. Its activities are organized via three major program areas: Exhibition, Education and Filmmaker Services.
The Film Society shows the best of world cinema year-round and presents the San Francisco International Animation Festival, New Italian Cinema, Cinema by the Bay and French Cinema Now each fall. SFFS presents more than 300 days of programming each year, reaching a total audience of more than 100,000 people. Its acclaimed Youth Education program introduces international cinema and media literacy to more than 10,000 teachers and students annually.
SFFS publishes a daily online magazine, SF360.org, with broad-ranging news and features on Bay Area film culture and provides crucial support to the Bay Area filmmaking community through Filmmaker Services, including grants, residencies, fiscal sponsorship, production assistance and development, networking and conference events and professional-level filmmaker classes and workshops.
53rd San Francisco International Film Festival
The 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 22-May 6, 2010 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre and the Clay Theatre 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 80,000+ people.
About QuickMobile
QuickMobile empowers festivals and event organizers to extend their marketing reach and brand into the mobile domain, allowing them to connect with their mobile users whenever they want with personalized information wherever they may be. QuickMobile is a leading mobile business solution provider helping organizations engage their customers in new ways to improve experience and engagement in order to drive added value services, incremental revenue, marketing ROI and brand loyalty. Whether it is SmartPhone (iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry or Android) application development, mobile websites or text messaging campaigns, QuickMobile specializes in the Travel and Entertainment sectors that are increasingly focused on developing new sources of revenue, differentiation and market share.
If you would like more information about QuickMobile and this partnership, please contact Julie West at 604.875.0403 or email julie.west@quickmobile.com.