Founded in 1980, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is the first and largest of its kind in the world. Today, we are more than a festival: we are the leading advocate for independent Jewish cinema. Our programs include:
Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Our hallmark program is a renowned three-week summer Festival, screening in five San Francisco 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 more than 30,000 annual attendees�SFJFF is an influential showcase bringing together filmmakers and audiences to celebrate Jewish cinema and explore its new frontiers.
Year-round Screenings & Events
Throughout the year, SFJFF@YBCA brings monthly screenings to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and special SFJFF@... screenings occur at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and other Bay Area venues. We co-present dozens of films with other Bay Area organizations, including our partner organizations in our year-round home in the 9th Street Independent Film Center, and members of SFJFF's Jewish Film Forum are treated to sneak previews of theatrical features.
Youth & Adult Education Programs
Our innovative youth program, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project (produced by Citizen Film), gives voice to the next generation of Jewish storytellers by providing teenagers with the framework, training and resources to write, shoot and edit their own 16mm films. Filmmaker panels and Q&A;�s provide context and depth to social and cultural issues on film. Our free matinee series provides quality programs to seniors and others on fixed incomes. And our Guide to Independent Jewish Film (both in print and in our soon-to-be-launched online archive at www.sfjff.org) is a valuable research tool.
Online Resources
In Spring 2009, SFJFF will launch a digital media initiative at www.sfjff.org to expand online access to and knowledge about Jewish-subject film. Created with the support of the Charles H. Revson Foundation and Steven Spielberg�s Righteous Persons Foundation, these innovative online resources will include information on the more than 1000 films presented by SFJFF, tools to connect audiences to films and to one another, a rich array of contextual media and the more than 250 titles and accompanying curricular resources of the Jewish Heritage Video Collection (JHVC).
The following films are among the more than 1000 works that have been curated for presentation at the annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, or for its year-round programs and collaborations. Some titles within the SFJFF Reframe collection can also be found in the JHVC Collection.