The California Film Festival (CAIFF) is excited to present another year exhibiting a diverse array of films from around the world. The festival has also honored actors and filmmakers including Richard Dreyfuss, Martin Landau, Cloris Leachman, Tony Curtis, Rita Moreno, Diane Ladd, Penny Marshall, Ed Asner, Tippi Hedren, Barry Morrow, and others. The festival takes place at the New Rheem Theatre in Moraga, The Orinda Theatre, and The Castro Theatre in San Francisco. For more information about the festival visit www.caiff.org.




BACKGROUND
Started in 1997, CAIFF is a premier showcase for independent, foreign and mainstream films.

CAIFF attracts a world-class audience!
Filmmakers from around the world
Entertainment industry executives
Hollywood Celebrities
Film Enthusiasts
World Wide Press

Posted on: 11/4/2013

Our annual festival of horror, sci-fi, dark fantasy and exploitation cinema defies convention to bring you the most outrageous genre films from both emerging and established filmmakers. Three weeks of celluloid mayhem not usually found in your local cineple

Posted on: 12/11/2013

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about silent film as an art form and as a culturally valuable historical record.

Throughout the year, SFSFF produces events that showcase important titles from the silent era, often in restored or preserved prints, with live musical accompaniment by some of the world’s finest practitioners of the art of putting music to film.

Posted on: 3/19/2013

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF) is a renowned three-week summer Festival, screening in four Bay Area venues, featuring the highest quality Jewish films from around the world.

As the first of more than 100 Jewish film festivals worldwide—and still the largest, with some 30,000 attendees—SFJFF is an influential showcase bringing together filmmakers and audiences to celebrate Jewish cinema and explore its new frontiers.

Posted on: 5/24/2013

Takes place November 7 through 10 at Roxie Theater and Castro Theatre in San Francisco; takes place November 16 at Palo Alto Players in South Bay

About the festival: From art-house classics to documentary films, from innovative and experimental visions to next-level Bollywood: 3rd i Films is committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through independent film, includes India, Pakistan, and other countries in South Asian Diaspora.

Posted on: 6/24/2013

The films are wonderful, but they’re only one piece of the SHOW. There are also the people. For starters, there are three major film artists who will attend to accept our Tribute. In addition, every Telluride program is presented by special guests — usually the director or key players. With older films, it may be a historian who recognizes the significance of overlooked silver nitrate.

This incomparably mixed company of directors, actors, and scholars is an essential part of the Festival: interacting all weekend with attendees, discussing, defending and delighting in the movies that are playing. From scheduled "conversations" to simply chatting away on the streets and in line, these show people are as inspiring as the surrounding mountain landscape. Access to discussions with great filmmaking minds — what could be better?

Then there’s the wild card. Each year, we recruit a different film enthusiast to act as Guest Director. We’ve invited both filmmakers and savvy film lovers in the arts to indulge their passions and enact their wish lists. In short, to help create their dream festival. Guest Directors such as Salman Rushdie, Buck Henry, B. Ruby Rich, Bertrand Tavernier, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Sondheim, Peter Sellars, Edith Kramer, Slavoj Žižek, Alexander Payne, Michael Ondaatje, Caetano Veloso, and Geoff Dyer have all left their mark. The Guest Director, the three tributees, the Silver Medallion recipients, fantastic re-discoveries and an amazing group of guests energize each and every Telluride Film Festival. Gathered here are distinguished intellects making for lively discussion…all part of The Show.

Posted on: 10/29/2013

Cinequest remains one of the last big festival bastions for the discovery of new and emerging film artists. Cinequest Film Festival (CQFF) presents a dynamic 12-day event of 200 international films with over 400 film artists, technologists, and professionals from 44 countries in attendance. Over 10,000 artists have attended CQFF to date.

Exhibiting unique social and artistic visions from around the globe, Cinequest’s dynamic festival engages audiences in thought-provoking dialogue, giving film artists and film lovers alike an opportunity to connect. Furthermore, Cinequest provides cutting edge technology and movie-making forums to empower professionals and students.

Although 80,000 attend CQFF, the four-block proximity of its state-of-the-art venues along with Cinequest’s renowned hospitality, makes the festival experience as warm and personal as it is electrifying.

Posted on: 10/29/2013

The Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF) is an annual event, which seeks to provide a greater understanding of the world and its many cultures through the artistic medium of film, and through the top quality films from around the world. TIFF wishes to enhance tolerance between people of all backgrounds. Its goal is one of cultural enrichment and heightened cultural awareness, and to create a platform for the independent filmmakers to express their talent and vision from any nation. TIFF strongly believes in its motto: "Understanding the World through Film"®

Posted on: 10/29/2013

Film Festival premieres an unprecedented 55 short films in 5 screening programs. The Festival Focus "Bridge To Truth: Queer SWANA/AMEMSA Communities," includes a Featured Screening that explores tradition & culture, feminist waves and the simmering revolutions among Southwest Asian, North African/Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian (SWANA/AMEMSA) communities, followed by a discussion with artists and activists. The festival also showcases films from across the U.S. created through the QWOCMAP Film & Freedom Academy. From the intoxicating first kiss to candlelit prayer rugs, to the ebb and flow between parents and children, this festival is awash with films that fill our spirits. From the deep reservoirs of Hawaiian and Navajo cultures, to the bouyant swells of chosen families, to the reservoirs of queer artists, dive into these depths and soak up the juicy possibilities of these powerful films!

Posted on: 10/29/2013

The San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival (SFIWFF) has a long tradition of providing the community with some of the best films directed and co-directed by women from all over the world. Since 2004, the SFIWFF has presented an elective program of narrative, documentary and international features and short films. SFIWFF film screenings serve as a catalyst for creating and facilitating dialogue through the power of independent filmmaking, and represent a range of perspectives, both locally and globally. SFIWFF is a vital and much-needed community forum that is widely reviewed and attended. The festival celebrates the exceptional contributions of women in the world of cinema, and represents a convergence of excellence in filmmaking from around the globe.

Posted on: 10/29/2013

The Sonoma International Film Festival is an American film festival that began in 1997. It takes place each April in the Sonoma Valley of California and is hosted by the Sonoma International Film Society, a 501c3 nonprofit organization.

Posted on: 10/29/2013

full length films and shorts. All movies have English subtitles.

Attendees will vote for their favorite film in both short and feature film categories and people’s choice awards will be announced on Sunday night. These two awards will be determined by all of YOU, the attendees. We are excited to once again host producers from Greece who will interact and converse with the audience. A children’s program is offered on Saturday afternoon.

Posted on: 10/29/2013

The San Francisco Black Film Festival was founded with the artistic vision to provide a platform for Black filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors to present their art. As a competitive film festival, SFBFF identifies filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors that are emerging as talents and established artists who are contributing to the cinematic legacy of African Americans. SFBFF conscientiously expands the notions of “Black film-making” to a global perspective. Hence, film submissions are accepted worldwide from filmmakers and screenwriters who are of African descent or feature actors representing the African Diaspora. SFBFF is managed by a dedicated advisory board of 10 artists, business people, film industry and other professionals

SFBFF has presented 14 annual festivals featuring over 1100 films including features, documentaries, and shorts. Audiences, film submissions, community and business support have steadily grown over the years. In 2002, the Urban Kidz Festival was added to provide young people between the ages of 5-12 the opportunity to view films created by African Americans geared toward young people and their families, and we are looking forward to presenting it again this year!

Posted on: 10/29/2013

The movies shown at the Brainwash Movie Festival are a great mix of original humor, experimental art movies, innovative animation, and short live-action stories with high production values. The moviemakers are unique and skillful storytellers, and the movies themselves pack a real punch into anywhere from 5 to 18 minutes. This year, we also featured 2 great features: John Law & Flecher Fleudujon’s “Head Trip” opening night Sat., Sept. 15th and closed Sunday night, Sept. 23rd with an all-Jesus show featuring “Trailer Park Jesus”. Both two great, rare features! Not to mention our usual abundance of innovative, unique and vital shorts!

What’s a Drive-in Bike-in Walk-in Movie Festival? It’s set up like a traditional drive-in with FM sound as well as two big amps. Arrive however you choose: drive, bike, or walk in, perhaps with your favorite chair or blanket.

Brainwash Movies has been showing great underground mostly short movies since 1995, and we have accumulated the rights to over 500 titles to produce an ongoing broadcast series. We’ve been written up in Variety, the New York Times, the Chronicle Pink Section, East Bay Express, Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, and in AAA’s Via magazine, among many others. We’ve toured the US Southwest and played at CBGB’s in New York.

We are also developing a broadcast pilot that includes footage filmed live at the festival. Stay tuned for a regular show of our short movies, held together with commentary, banter, and an as-yet confidential plot that may once and for all resolve the question: “Who is Shelby Toland?”. Or maybe not!

Posted on: 10/30/2013

The Arab Film Festival is dedicated to bringing the Arabian culture and films to American audiences. Each year, the Festival offers films by and about Arabs. These films offer authentic image of the Arabian culture of today, as well as showing the diversity, talents, and realities of Arabs throughout the world. In doing so, the festival culturally connects Arab filmmakers and their work with a larger community.

Posted on: 10/30/2013

BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2013 launches on October 25th, 26th, 27th and November 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2013 at the EAST BAY MEDIA CENTER’S PERFORMANCE SPACE, located in Berkeley’s Downtown Arts District at 1939 Addison Street.
This years’ event screens over 90 filmmakers works, including two U.S. Premieres,
‘ONE NIGHT AT THE ARISTO’ by Nic Saunders of Great Britain, an experimental film based on a short story by William S. Burroughs, screens Friday, October 25th at 7:30pm and ‘ABSTRACT ALCHEMIST OF FLESH’ by Colin Still and Optic Nerve of Great Britain, the penultimate documentary on poet Michael McClure, screens Friday, October 25th at 8:10pm.
An exclusive Berkeley Premiere, is one of the most outstanding and thought provoking environmental documentaries of the year, ‘REVOLUTION’ by Rob Stewart. If you go to the movies this year, you must see ‘REVOLUTION’, screens Saturday, October 26th at 7:30pm.
BVFF’S STUDENT FILM MARATHON has over 40 selections from student filmmakers across the country. Once again, BVFF features the First Look films of the University of Southern California Department of Cinema and Animation. For the student film screening schedule, please refer to the website, www.berkeleyvideofilmfest.org.
A workshop on ‘The iBook and the Indie Producer’ conducted by Ken Adams of Austin, Texas, Saturday, November 2nd at 2pm and his experimental film ‘THE TERENCE McKENNA EXPERIENCE’, screening on Saturday, October 26th at 9:15pm.

Posted on: 10/30/2013

In January 2009, The Renaissance School and Screen 360: Films for Children of the World produced the first Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival in the San Francisco East Bay. The festival began as a creative community event to support educational programs that foster global understanding and cultural exchange. In particular, the festival contributed to The Renaissance School’s biannual international travel program, which took 40+ elementary level students to the Yucatan for 10 days in the fall of 2009. BAICFF has since produced five annual film festivals, presented over 185 family-friendly films of high artistic value from around the world, and held workshops for over 200 children designed to introduce kids to the world of animation and live-action filmmaking.

Posted on: 10/30/2013

The San Francisco Green Film Festival (SFGFF) is the West Coast’s leading destination for groundbreaking and compelling films on the urgent environmental issues of our time. As global temperatures skyrocket and media coverage of climate change vanishes, our mission is to educate and connect communities through forward-thinking programs of environmental films and discussions.

Launched in 2011, SFGFF presents an annual film festival each Spring as well as year-round community screenings and events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Themes at the 2013 Festival ranged from climate change to food and agriculture, energy, water, green chemistry, housing, and art in the environment. The Festival’s Closing Night celebrations, June 5, 2013, took place on United Nations’ World Environment Day.

SFGFF brings critical and contemporary environmental issues to local audiences and, in the process, highlights the vital work of our many partners, including local businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations. Since 2011, we’ve partnered with over 50 community organizations, produced over 90 programs with 225 films, and inspired over 8,000 attendees.

Posted on: 10/30/2013

The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival (SFFFF) is a Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2006 that is dedicated to creating avenues for independent filmmakers, youth, filmmakers of conscience, and artists from underserved communities to come together and exhibit their work to the widest possible audience.

The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival is held every summer in the heart of the Mission district in San Francisco at the Roxie Theatre. Filmmakers whose work is accepted into the festival are invited to come to the city by the bay in the dead of summer to screen and discuss their work.

In addition to our annual international film festival, the SFFFF Youth Program is specifically focused on demonstrating to underserved youth that existing pathways do exist to help them find a career in the film arts. SFFFF holds annual music and art performances, as well as youth programming and awards presentations.

Posted on: 10/30/2013

OUR MISSION is to support the art of independent filmmaking and to enhance the cultural landscape and economic diversity of Napa Valley through artistic vitality.

We produce the annual Napa Valley Film Festival, present special film programs throughout the year, and bring the power of cinematic storytelling to local students through Education & Outreach.

Cinema Napa Valley, dba Napa Valley Film Festival, is a 501c3 non-profit organization headquartered in Napa, California.

Posted on: 10/30/2013

SF DocFest is an annual festival devoted to documentary cinema. Since 2001, this two week-long event has brought the most weird and wonderful aspects of real life to the big screen

Posted on: 12/11/2013

Held each spring, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery, featuring 200 films and live events.

Posted on: 3/25/2014