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Tag: San Francisco International Film Festival
Admit it: these are overwhelming times we live in. Supposedly over 50,000 feature films are generated on a global basis each year. In America we manage to consume about 1% of the year’s supply — and that makes up the top consumption market for films worldwide. Good movies just don’t get seen. People find it hard to connect with the films that may suit them best. So what can we do about it? Well…
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I totally dig that the San Francisco Film Society does these “State Of Cinema” Addresses. Jonathon Lethem, Kevin Kelly, Tilda Swinton. CHRISTINE VACHON.
Who will it be this year? Some of you
Yesterday I gave the Keynote Address at the International Film Festival Summit in Austin, Texas. You can read the speech on Indiewire here. Or watch the video here. I ended the talk with a host of questions — 12 to be exact, and they follow below.
The abundance of questions I’ve raised, point that we have a tremendous opportunity to unlock all ta new power of film festivals — and I certainly can brainstorm with you they myriad of ways that can be done –but if we seek to begin to recognize the boundaries we can push at the festival level, I want to first shower you with even more questions — not answers — as I suspect they will allow far more solutions to flower.
I have twelve questions I am going to be pondering this year when I look at our festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, when I come to your festivals, and when I hear the tales of the intrepid filmmaker / traveller ushering their film from one festival to another:
The San Francisco Film Society is now accepting submissions for the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival, recognized throughout the world as an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in one of the country’s most beautiful cities. Works in all genres, forms and lengths are considered. Deadlines:
• Early deadline Tuesday, October 9
• Regular deadline Monday, November 5
• Final deadline for short films Monday, December 3
• Final deadline for features Monday, December 10
HOW TO ENTER Entry form and information: sffs.org or withoutabox.com.
