The San Francisco Film Society offers a continuation of San Francisco International Film Festival involvement throughout the year. Presenting new works, archival works, special series and tributes brings an innovative and diverse calendar of outstanding cinema to Bay Area audiences. [Through its sponsorship programs,] SFFS seeks to foster corporate partnerships aligned with core Film Society goals and with the diverse constituencies and social groups it serves. From corporate entertainment and branded content to high-profile marketing exposure and naming opportunities, strategic partnerships with the Film Society provide a unique opportunity to associate with a range of innovative and progressive citywide film and media programs dedicated to internationalism, education, outreach and digital media. Sponsorships are available as add-ons to Festival sponsorships or may be created for any of the following programs.

SFFS Screen
In partnership with Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the San Francisco Film Society presents its acclaimed film programs and events year-round on a daily basis. SFFS Screen provides exhibition opportunities for the many worthy American and international fiction and nonfiction films that avid and adventurous San Francisco filmgoers hear about but are seldom able to see.

French Cinema Now
Held each year in October. French Cinema Now showcases contemporary features by emerging and recognized directors. Works are selected from a wide diversity of French productions, some with U. S. distributors and some without, with a focus on quality and innovative filmmaking that deserves to be seen by a wider audience. As at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the films’ directors, actors and/or writers are invited to come to San Francisco to present their films and participate in illuminative Q&A sessions with sophisticated Bay Area audiences.

San Francisco International Animation Festival
Held each year in November. Currently one of the most fertile and creative forms in cinema and television, animation constitutes a pressure point between artistic, experimental, commercial and industrial media. Each year, the five-day Festival samples the wide breadth of animation with a selection of the finest, boldest and most exciting animated films and videos from around the world. The Festival presents eclectic programs of feature length and short films encompassing artistic, commercial and industrial media, visual and special effects, art house films and children’s cartoons.

New Italian Cinema
Held each year in November. Each year, New Italian Cinema celebrates the rich cinematic tradition of Italy and brings the country’s newest directors and films to audiences in San Francisco. Nearly 5,000 attendees enjoy not only a vibrant cinema showcase, but also an immersion into Italy’s rich and storied culture with directors in attendance to illuminate their work in lively Q&A sessions. A prestigious jury selects the best Italian entries from the year’s major European film festivals to make their U.S. premieres, and each selection is in competition for the $10,000 City of Florence Award.

SF360 Film+Club
Bimonthly. Presented by the Film Society and Mezzanine, SF360 Film+Club explores the social experience of the movies by taking films out of the theater and bringing them into a nightclub. The event also aims to bring the nightclub experience to film audiences by showcasing relevant entertainment after the screening—live music, live art, etc. The result is a new kind of experience that combines art forms of all sorts. It appeals to the 21-35 age demographic with broad interests in film, in art, in nightlife, in meeting like-minded people—and gets them together under one roof.

SFFS Film Arts Forum
Bimonthly. The San Francisco Film Society’s bimonthly event for local filmmakers and cineastes featuring interactive and practical presentations, craft-based screenings, networking trade secrets and cocktails—an entire conference in the span of a few hours. SFFS Film Arts Forum is a keystone of the Film Society’s full suite of filmmaker services programs—in the areas of professional education, career development, membership services, fiscal sponsorship, grant-making and information resources.

For information about sponsorship opportunities with the San Francisco Film Society and the San Francisco International Film Festival, contact:

Suzanne McCloskey
Director, Corporate Sponsorship
415-561-5044