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Clarence B. Jones passed away on Friday, May 22. Just 20 days earlier, Dr. Jones was an honored guest at SFFILM’s 69th S...
05/30/2026

Clarence B. Jones passed away on Friday, May 22. Just 20 days earlier, Dr. Jones was an honored guest at SFFILM’s 69th San Francisco International Film Festival for a screening of THE BADDEST SPEECHWRITER OF ALL, a documentary about his life co-directed by Stephen Curry and Ben Proudfoot. The audience showered him with two standing ovations and delighted in his stories about his life.

As a musician himself, Dr. Jones always made time for artists passing through the city and we were lucky enough to celebrate Opening Night of Doc Stories in 2021 with his friend and colleague director Stanley Nelson for his film ATTICA. We are grateful for his legacy; he will be missed.

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05/30/2026

Planning a staycation?

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I LOVE BOOSTERS is in theaters NOW!!! 💋👢Who caught our Centerpiece presentation of I LOVE BOOSTERS last month at the 69t...
05/22/2026

I LOVE BOOSTERS is in theaters NOW!!! 💋👢

Who caught our Centerpiece presentation of I LOVE BOOSTERS last month at the 69th SFFILM Festival?

📸 by Pamela Gentile

Science  🤝 CinemaWe are so proud to celebrate the 2025 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Initiative Fellowship and  Grant R...
05/20/2026

Science  🤝 Cinema

We are so proud to celebrate the 2025 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Initiative Fellowship and  Grant Recipients!

Pairing filmmakers with science advisors helps to better represent science on the big screen while also investing in  the creative discovery process for the filmmakers themselves. The stories they are working on capture everything from anthropology, engineering, sound ecology, and  NASA. Congratulations to Justin, Destiny, Sid and Aditya, and Lane, and thank you to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!

05/14/2026

A New Yorker… wearing a Niners jacket… in Oakland… make it make sense?

Did you know that BLINDSPOTTING, written by Oakland natives Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, was supported by the SFFILM Rainin Grant?! SFFILM fiction grant applications are approaching the final deadline! Submit your project at the link in bio.

🎞️: BLINDSPOTTING (2018)

05/12/2026

What does a tree witness across a hundred years? 🌳

The winner of this year’s SFFILM Sloan Science on Screen Award, SILENT FRIEND follows three souls across more than a century, each quietly drawn to one enduring ginkgo tree. Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Léa Seydoux.

🎟️ Playing at the Roxie starting May 15!

We closed out the 69th SFFILM Festival in the most unexpected, perfect way: a Star Wars Day screening of THE EMPIRE STRI...
05/07/2026

We closed out the 69th SFFILM Festival in the most unexpected, perfect way: a Star Wars Day screening of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK at the newly renovated Castro Theatre. Followed by an onstage conversation with the one and only Anthony Daniels, the man behind C-3PO in every single chapter of the Saga.

Thank you to Anthony and SFFILM Board VP Howard Roffman for a night that was truly out of this galaxy. And to our incredible collaborators , , and ,  may the Force (and the film festival) be with you. Always. 🪐

📸 by Pamela Gentile, Tommy Lau, and Deborah Coleman

05/07/2026

Becoming an adult isn’t easy; there are indeed some mad bills to pay. 💵

MAD BILLS TO PAY, which premiered at the 2025 SFFILM Festival, follows a 19-year-old Dominican American in the Bronx navigating the slow, unglamorous journey to adulthood.

Catch it at the Roxie starting May 7 with director Joel Alfonso Vargas in person!

And the winners of the Golden Gate Awards for the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival areeeeeeee…… 🥁🥁🥁The Gol...
05/06/2026

And the winners of the Golden Gate Awards for the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival areeeeeeee…… 🥁🥁🥁

The Golden Gate Awards has honored emerging global film artists in the United States since 1957, and we are thrilled to announce the class of 2026 is here. Cheers to another year of filmmaking excellence and THANK YOU to all of the filmmakers for sharing their insight and artistry. We literally couldn’t do it without you ♥️

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