Film SF champions San Francisco as a cinematic destination, supports storytellers, stimulates economic development, helps create jobs, and more! 🎥✨
Great news! The updated Scene in San Francisco incentive program is now live.
This annual report outlines economic impact over the past year, highlighting production activity, the Scene in San Francisco incentive program, community engagement, marketing efforts, workforce development, notable productions, filming statistics, and more. Highlights include:
Film SF has compiled a database of film and media organizations and services across all nine Bay Area counties. The primary goal with this project is to create a comprehensive and accessible database that serves as a valuable resource that encapsulates the myriad offerings in the San Francisco Bay Area film and media community.
San Francisco has a long history both as a visual staple in movies and a center for filmmaking creativity.
Here…
The California On Location Awards (COLA's) is an annual event that recognizes the best location professionals in the entertainment industry.…
Celebrate Black History Month through rich and diverse cinematic films by black filmmakers, actors and storytellers shot in San Francisco.…
The GLAAD Media Awards are an annual ceremony that recognizes media outlets for their fair and accurate representation of the…
Happy Women's History Month! From "nine-to-five" working ladies enhancing their business with flex hours, on-site daycare and equal pay opportunities…
The Oscars, or Academy Awards, are a series of awards given annually to recognize excellence in the film industry. The…
Happy Harvey Milk Day everyone!
Notable locations Film SF helped coordinate production support for Fairyland:
• Alabama Street at 23rd Street
• Bryant Street between 22nd Street and 23rd Street
• 2536 - 2538 Bryant Street
Other Locations shot in San Francisco:
• Conservatory of Flowers
• Portals of the Past and Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park
Awesome to learn more about Maitri, a sanctuary and hospice featured in this film that played a real-life role in assisting people during the HIV/AIDS epidemic and continues to serve the community today.
- Ismael, Film SF Senior Production Coordinator
The first premiere of The Celluloid Closet took place 30 years ago here at the Castro Theatre. Now, it’s being celebrated with a sold-out screening and an opening Q&A featuring directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, joined by the documentary’s narrator, Lily Tomlin, reflecting on how the film was made and how it began.
To learn that after Vito Russo’s public memorial at the Castro Theatre, a few of his friends secretly stashed some of his ashes in the back…
Boots Riley’s I LOVE BOOSTERS is a colorful, layered, explosive ride through the world of boosting. Boots infuses the film with references that range from Parliament Funkadelic to Looney Tunes, never missing a beat. The film strikes a balance between emotional depth and refreshing out-of-the-box world building.
Themes of friendship, connection seeking, authorship, identity, human rights, art for art’s sake, and more are explored throughout - all to a brilliant score by local band and frequent collaborators Tune-Yards.
The film…
"I loved the specific choice of San Francisco because it just gave it so much vibrancy and is such a vivid place and vast expansiveness of the beautiful hills, the landscape and we were just blown away. I have to say that the film crew here was spectacular and it was such a joy to film here. And the people that were BARTing into the BART train, and into Molinari's, people were just so passionate to see something creative happening,…
and if i said all modern biopics are just trying to have the sauce that milk had...
At Castro Theater for 30th Anniversary featuring the directors and Lily Tomlin
Just came back from watching this at the Castro theatre for its 30 year anniversary. Lily Tomlin was there and I almost cried. She is so legendary. I obviously love this documentary. It’s a start at detailing queer visibility in Hollywood. A very white lens though but still impactful for what it was. Also the historical context that the Castro Theatre has made it ten times better💙 GLAAD to have been there hehe
watched in the castro theater! fun documentary. like watching a youtube clips compilation video from the 90s. made me want to watch hella other movies.
San Francisco has a long history both as a visual staple in movies and a center for filmmaking creativity.
Here is a list of productions shot in and around San Francisco. This includes films that shot entirely in the City or just a few scenes.