Jul 14, 2010
SFFILM
The San Francisco Film Society announced today that the second annual Cinema by the Bay festival, a highlight of the expanded SFFS Fall Season, will run November 5-7. CBTB is a celebration of the passion, innovation and diversity of Bay Area filmmaking, the pioneering spirit of local directors and the incredible depth and breadth of the region’s film and media production. The three-day festival will feature the best new work produced in or about the San Francisco Bay Area and provide audiences with an opportunity to focus attention solely on the engaged and eclectic nature of the region’s film culture. The call for entries for narrative features, documentary features and short films is open now through August 13.
The Cinema by the Bay festival is an essential element of the Film Society’s year-round efforts to highlight Bay Area film culture. SFFS has long celebrated films produced in the creative heart of the West, giving Golden Gate Awards to Bay Area documentaries and shorts, and four years ago inaugurating a dedicated Cinema by the Bay section in the annual San Francisco International Film Festival. The most recent edition of the International featured 24 local narrative and documentary feature and short films, capping a total of 137 local films showcased at SFIFF since the program’s inception. With a dedicated fall festival, the Film Society continues the tradition established by Film Arts Foundation, which from 1984 to 2005 programmed the Bay Area’s most dynamic showcase of local independent filmmaking with its Festival of Independent Cinema.
HOW TO ENTER
Works in all genres (narrative, documentary, experimental, animation) and lengths will be accepted. Cinema by the Bay requires a San Francisco Bay Area premiere for feature-length films only. There is no entry fee to submit work. Films can be entered online at:
https://sffs.wufoo.com/forms/cinema-by-the-bay-festival-entry-form/
Films submitted to SFIFF53 need not be resubmitted as they are already under consideration. However, filmmakers with new cuts of their films can send a screening copy on DVD to the San Francisco Film Society, 39 Mesa Street #110, San Francisco, CA 94129, Attn: Audrey Chang. Please note on the DVD that it is a new cut of a film previously submitted.
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 on its SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas; presents the longest-running film festival in the Americas, the SF International (April 21-May 5, 2011); and presents the San Francisco International Animation Festival, New Italian Cinema, Cinema by the Bay, Taiwan Film Days 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 FilmHouse Residencies, Fiscal Sponsorship, SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants, Hearst Screenwriting Grant, Djerassi Residency Award/SFFS Screenwriting Fellowship, SFFS Film Arts Forums and professional-level filmmaker classes.