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SFFILM
Awards
Savanah Leaf’s Powerful ‘Earth Mama’ from A24 Wins SFFILM Audience Award
Other San Francisco winners included TIFF favorite "Snow and the Bear" and Estonian documentary "Smoke Sauna Sisterhood" from Sundance.
By
Ryan Lattanzio
April 24, 2023 1:00 pm
Features
Noah Cowan, Former TIFF Leader and Cinema Champion, Has Died at Age 55
Cowan shared his enthusiasm for world cinema as festival programmer, film journalist, visual arts curator, SFFILM executive director, and non-profit consultant.
By
Anne Thompson
January 26, 2023 1:47 pm
Awards
Ryan Coogler, Margot Robbie, and Sarah Polley Will Be Honored at SFFILM Awards
Coogler, Robbie, and Polley will accept honors in San Francisco this December along their awards season journeys.
By
Samantha Bergeson
November 15, 2022 1:00 pm
Features
SFFILM Festival Unveils 65th Lineup, from Michelle Yeoh Tribute to ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’
San Francisco's premier film celebration returns to in-person festivities this year, with more than 130 films from 56 countries.
By
Ryan Lattanzio
March 30, 2022 12:00 pm
Features
SFFILM Awards Documentary Film Fund Grants to Four Rising Projects
Now in its 10th year, SFFILM awarded $60,000 to four rising filmmaking teams to support feature length documentaries.
By
Samantha Bergeson
January 27, 2022 3:00 pm
Features
SFFILM 2021 Announces Full Lineup, Including Majority Women and BIPOC-Directed Films
The San Francisco festival's lineup boasts a number of films from strong filmmakers, including Nanfu Wang, Haifaa Al Mansour, and Dash Shaw.
By
Jude Dry
March 24, 2021 1:30 pm
Awards
Local Awards Push 2021 Oscar Contenders, from San Francisco and London to the Hamptons
In this strange awards year, virtual film festivals and awards shows are one way to build awards buzz.
By
Anne Thompson
October 20, 2020 2:40 pm
Features
SFFILM Appoints Sundance Institute Veteran Anne Lai as New Executive Director
Lai will succeed Noah Cowan in leading the Bay Area-based film nonprofit.
By
Ryan Lattanzio
January 21, 2020 2:00 pm
Features
‘The Farewell’ Director Lulu Wang’s Secretive Next Film Is About a Fertility Crisis in a Virtual-Reality World
At the SFFILM awards on December 3, Oscar contender Wang spoke to IndieWire about her mysterious followup "Children of the New World."
By
Ryan Lattanzio
December 7, 2019 10:30 am
Features
Boots Riley Explains Why ‘Joker’ Isn’t a Radical Comic Book Movie
At a recent SFFILM event, Riley told IndieWire about how the DC movie supports the same myth as "The Dark Knight Rises": "Rebellion is crazy."
By
Ryan Lattanzio
December 5, 2019 2:30 pm
Features
Noah Cowan Will Step Down as Head of San Francisco’s SFFILM After 2019 Festival
Cowan inherited an organization with a rocky history in 2012.
By
Eric Kohn
April 1, 2019 1:57 pm
Features
‘First Man’ Screenwriter Josh Singer on How ‘Human Tragedy Can Create the Impossible’
The Oscar winner was joined by an astronaut and a NASA scientist as the film received SFFILM's Sloan Science in Cinema Prize.
By
Michael Nordine
December 17, 2018 2:22 pm
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