PRESS RELEASES › SFFILM Presents 2026 SF Honors Award to Luca Guadagnino’s ARTIFICIAL SFFILM Presents 2026 SF Honors Award to ...

Eleanor Coppola was assistant art director Eleanor Neil when she met future husband Francis Ford Coppola on the set of his 1963 horror film Dementia 13. In 1991, she made her own directing debut and ...

We’re excited to announce $543K in Grants for Filmmakers going to 31 Projects with Grantees and Fellows Across Narrative and Documentary Films We’re excited to announce the recipients for several ...

The San Francisco Film Society announced today the 11 finalists and one honorable mention for the SFFS/Film Arts Foundation Documentary Grant, the newest grant to be offered by its expanding Filmmaker ...

An Egyptian filmmaker and script consultant, Ayman El Amir made the documentaries Happily Ever After (2016) and The Brink of Dreams, and also wrote and directed a short, El Hokm (2009). In 2016, he ...

SFFILM, in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, presented Christopher Nolan’s staggering global cinematic phenomenon Oppenheimer as the 2023 recipient of the SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema ...

This program provides strategy and guidance to young storytellers towards professional paths in the film industry. Applications for the Fall 2026 Youth FilmHouse Residency are now open! The deadline ...

The following films, playing at the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21–May 5), have secured US distribution or are in negotiations with a US distributor. Full reviews and feature ...

Help us give a warm welcome to 2026’s group of Bay Area–based storytellers who will take up residence at FilmHouse, SFFILM’s dynamic shared workspace for independent filmmakers. The FilmHouse ...

San Francisco, CA — SFFILM announced today that two new screenwriting teams have been selected to receive Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellowships, which will support the development of their ...

L to R, top row: New Directors Awardee: INK WASH, Global Visions Awardee: ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU. L to R, bottom row: Cine Latino Awardee: BELOVED TROPIC, Kirby Walker Documentary Award Awardee: SEEDS ...