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San Francisco Women’s Film Festival (SFWFF) mission is to honor, showcase, and facilitate the creation of films that are directed or co-directed by women. We achieve our mission by supporting, promoting, exhibiting and honoring the achievements and contributions of women in the world of cinema. We pride ourselves in creating programming that brings the highest quality films to the community through various genres including documentaries, music videos, animation, and experimental works. Our films and screenings are selected and hosted by filmmakers, professors, and other notable figures in the world of film. In addition to exhibiting the next new wave of women filmmakers, the SFWFF also makes time to pay tribute to films by women with historical significance.
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Filmmaker and community educator, Scarlett Shepard, founded the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival on May 15th, 2004. While a student in San Francisco State University’s cinema program, Shepard noticed the lack of credit given to women filmmakers in the history of cinema.
After consulting with the SFSU cinema department and administration, Shepard embarked on a journey to create a platform that showcases, awards and celebrates local, student and international women filmmakers. She teamed up with SFSU professors, the SFSU Women’s Center of Associated Students, local award-winning filmmakers and a host of local sponsors. San Francisco State University’s first Women’s Film Festival was born in April 2005.
After the success of its first run, Shepard decided to expand the festival beyond the SFSU campus and rename the festival.
“Our mission at San Francisco Women’s Film Festival is to honor, showcase and facilitate the creation of films that are directed or co-directed by women. SFWFF is a necessary step - women directors should no longer be left out or considered a side note in film festivals, film history and the film industry,” says Shepard.
Shepard’s experience with film curriculum mirrors the overall exclusion of women from film history studies and their contributions to cinema inside and outside the classrooms. According to the Directors Guild of America (DGA) statistics, female directors logged 7.4 percent of total member workdays on fiction features in 1999. Similarly, only three women — Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion and Lina Wertmüller — have been nominated for Oscars in the Best Director category, and none have won.
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There are so many ways you can help individually and collectively to honor and support women filmmakers! You can support women filmmakers by attending screenings, volunteering, participating in sponsorship opportunities, contributing to our SFWFF Scholarship Fund, or donating in-kind services and equipment. In return these very important and much-needed resources will help women make, complete and distribute their films—making them accessible to audiences around the world.
Our voicemail hotline number is (415) 820-1500
For sponsorship opportunities please contact: sponsorship@sfwff.com
Donate to SFWFF Scholarship Fund,
offer In-Kind Services or Equipment contact: donate@sfwff.com
Volunteer information contact: volunteer@sfwff.com
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