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San Francisco Film Society and The Kenneth Rainin Foundation Announce Grant Program Totaling $3 Million Over Five Years For Bay Area Narrative Feature Films with Social Justice Themes
Application Period for First 2009 Grant Opens January 28
1/27/2009
San Francisco, CA – The San Francisco Film Society and The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced today that over the next five years they will disburse a series of annual grants totaling $3 million for narrative feature films being made in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time.
This bold, unprecedented initiative will help realize the Foundation’s visionary goals at the same time as it consolidates the Film Society’s position as a national leader in support of cinematic work that celebrates humanity in all its variety and vitality.
“The Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s mission is to fund inspiring, world-changing work,” said Jennifer Rainin, KRF founder. “We are thrilled to partner with the San Francisco Film Society to harness the power and influence of film for positive social change and to support the vibrant Bay Area film community.”
“The Film Society is supremely proud and grateful to be entering into this extraordinary partnership with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation,” said Graham Leggat, SFFS executive director. “The Foundation’s enlightened patronage promises to have a transformative effect on Bay Area film culture.”
The grants, which run 2009–13, will be awarded in the spring and fall of each year. In 2009 there will be two $35,000 grants. The application period for the first grant opens January 28.
The 2009 grants support screenwriting and script development, preproduction and postproduction. The first winner will be announced on May 6, 2009 at the Golden Gate Awards during the San Francisco International Film Festival.
The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support work by local makers as well as attract projects of the highest quality to the Bay Area, providing tangible encouragement and support to meaningful projects and benefiting the local economy. In addition to the cash grant, recipients will receive various benefits through the Film Society’s comprehensive and dynamic filmmaker services programs.
These benefits include free tuition to SFFS classes and workshops; an SFFS FilmHouse Residency of up to six months; feature articles on SF360.org, the Film Society’s daily online magazine; work-in-progress presentation and discussion at the bimonthly SFFS Film Arts Forums; access to the SFFS Fiscal Sponsorship program, including full materials and budget review, consultation on production, exhibition, distribution and marketing strategies and networking opportunities; a discounted industry pass to the San Francisco International Film Festival; and invitations to SFFS industry events in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Park City, Cannes and Toronto, among others.
Exact amounts of individual grants and the number of grants made each year after 2009 will be determined on an annual basis. Total annual grant amounts per year are projected as follows: 2009: $70,000; 2010: $450,000; 2011: $675,000; 2012: $864,000; 2013: $1,050,000.
The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants are the newest initiative of the Film Society’s filmmaker services programs. These production assistance programs, launched in August 2008, are designed to foster the creativity and further the careers of independent filmmakers across the Bay Area. They include professional-level classes and workshops, career development consultation, membership discounts and benefits, fiscal sponsorship, grants and residencies and information resources.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation is a private family foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of life by promoting equitable access to a baseline of literacy, enabling inspiration through the magic of the arts and providing opportunity for a healthy lifestyle for those with chronic disease. The Foundation focuses its efforts on the San Francisco Bay Area and specific medical issues and utilizes its networks, resources and commitment to socially responsible business practices to support innovation, collaboration and connection.
San Francisco Film Society is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to celebrating film and the moving image in all its glorious forms. SFFS year-round programs and events are concentrated in four core areas: Celebrating Internationalism; Inspiring Bay Area Youth; Showcasing Bay Area Film Culture; and Exploring New Digital Media. The Film Society shows the best of world cinema year-round on its SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas; presents the longest-running film festival in the Americas, the SF International (April 23–May 7, 2009); publishes a daily online magazine, SF360.org, featuring broad-ranging news and features on Bay Area film and media; annually reaches more than 7,000 students ages 6–18 with its acclaimed media literacy programs; and provides crucial support to the Bay Area filmmaking community through SFFS filmmaker services including FilmHouse Residencies, Fiscal Sponsorship, the Herbert Family Filmmaking Grants, SFFS Film Arts Forums and professional-level filmmaker classes.
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The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time.
This bold, unprecedented initiative will help realize the Foundation’s visionary goals at the same time as it consolidates the Film Society’s position as a national leader in support of cinematic work that celebrates humanity in all its variety and vitality.
“The Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s mission is to fund inspiring, world-changing work,” said Jennifer Rainin, KRF founder. “We are thrilled to partner with the San Francisco Film Society to harness the power and influence of film for positive social change and to support the vibrant Bay Area film community.”
“The Film Society is supremely proud and grateful to be entering into this extraordinary partnership with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation,” said Graham Leggat, SFFS executive director. “The Foundation’s enlightened patronage promises to have a transformative effect on Bay Area film culture.”
The grants, which run 2009–13, will be awarded in the spring and fall of each year. In 2009 there will be two $35,000 grants. The application period for the first grant opens January 28.
The 2009 grants support screenwriting and script development, preproduction and postproduction. The first winner will be announced on May 6, 2009 at the Golden Gate Awards during the San Francisco International Film Festival.
The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support work by local makers as well as attract projects of the highest quality to the Bay Area, providing tangible encouragement and support to meaningful projects and benefiting the local economy. In addition to the cash grant, recipients will receive various benefits through the Film Society’s comprehensive and dynamic filmmaker services programs.
These benefits include free tuition to SFFS classes and workshops; an SFFS FilmHouse Residency of up to six months; feature articles on SF360.org, the Film Society’s daily online magazine; work-in-progress presentation and discussion at the bimonthly SFFS Film Arts Forums; access to the SFFS Fiscal Sponsorship program, including full materials and budget review, consultation on production, exhibition, distribution and marketing strategies and networking opportunities; a discounted industry pass to the San Francisco International Film Festival; and invitations to SFFS industry events in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Park City, Cannes and Toronto, among others.
Exact amounts of individual grants and the number of grants made each year after 2009 will be determined on an annual basis. Total annual grant amounts per year are projected as follows: 2009: $70,000; 2010: $450,000; 2011: $675,000; 2012: $864,000; 2013: $1,050,000.
The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants are the newest initiative of the Film Society’s filmmaker services programs. These production assistance programs, launched in August 2008, are designed to foster the creativity and further the careers of independent filmmakers across the Bay Area. They include professional-level classes and workshops, career development consultation, membership discounts and benefits, fiscal sponsorship, grants and residencies and information resources.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation is a private family foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of life by promoting equitable access to a baseline of literacy, enabling inspiration through the magic of the arts and providing opportunity for a healthy lifestyle for those with chronic disease. The Foundation focuses its efforts on the San Francisco Bay Area and specific medical issues and utilizes its networks, resources and commitment to socially responsible business practices to support innovation, collaboration and connection.
San Francisco Film Society is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to celebrating film and the moving image in all its glorious forms. SFFS year-round programs and events are concentrated in four core areas: Celebrating Internationalism; Inspiring Bay Area Youth; Showcasing Bay Area Film Culture; and Exploring New Digital Media. The Film Society shows the best of world cinema year-round on its SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas; presents the longest-running film festival in the Americas, the SF International (April 23–May 7, 2009); publishes a daily online magazine, SF360.org, featuring broad-ranging news and features on Bay Area film and media; annually reaches more than 7,000 students ages 6–18 with its acclaimed media literacy programs; and provides crucial support to the Bay Area filmmaking community through SFFS filmmaker services including FilmHouse Residencies, Fiscal Sponsorship, the Herbert Family Filmmaking Grants, SFFS Film Arts Forums and professional-level filmmaker classes.
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