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  1. Apr 13, 2023 · Here we’ve outlined a running list of nearly 40 film festivals happening in San Francisco and surrounding Bay Area cities, from the highly-anticipated SF International Film Festival in April to the swanky Napa Valley Film Festival in November.

  2. San Francisco's Italian Film Week, staged by Italian Consul Pierluigi Alvera and Irving "Bud" Levin in 1956, was the precursor to the first San Francisco International Film Festival in December 1957 (founded by Levin). The details of the Festival's formation is a story for another time.

  3. San Francisco was a friendly audience to international cinema in the late 1950s. The famous international festivals of the day were at Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Edinburgh. There was some thought that perhaps San Francisco could join their ranks. Locally, Levin had helped organize an Italian film festival in 1956 at the suggestion of Italian ...

  4. Here you can read all about the Festivals history, help us celebrate the 50th in April 2007 and just have fun looking at photos from the past. In FILMS , you can search by title, director, year and cast for any of the nearly 6,000 films we have shown since 1957.

  5. Mar 26, 2024 · Annual public film programs presented by SFFILM include the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM Festival) which is the longest running film festival in the Americas, Doc Stories documentary series, special events with the best and brightest in contemporary film, and family programming.

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    Running for 11 days each spring, the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM Festival) was founded in 1957 by San Francisco theater operator Irving "Bud" Levin, who had attended film festivals in Cannes and Venice and decided it was time for the United States to have its own.

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  8. Apr 22, 2024 · April 22, 2024. 18 min read. For the past twenty-seven years the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has unearthed treasures from the silent film era and presented them with context and curation for audiences of the City by the Bay.

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