Sacramento Film and Music Festival

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The Sacramento Film and Music Festival

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival (SFMF) is Sacramento's largest and longest running all-genre film festival, accepting films from anywhere in the world. In 2006, the seventh annual SFMF featured over 90 film and video projects and 4 live bands over five days, including the special programs Sac Music Seen (a local music video production program), the 10x10 Filmmaker Challenge (a 10-day filmmaking program), and Student Days (a student film festival within the larger event).

In 2007, the Festival will run from Wednesday, August 8th to Sunday, August 12th at the historic Crest Theatre in downtown Sacramento.

In 2006, SFMF was voted Sacramento's "Best Film Festival" by readers of the Sacramento News and Review.¹

In 2006, the Sac Music Seen program was supported by a grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission in recognition of its contributions to the arts community and support of both local musicians and filmmakers.

In 2004, in its fifth year, SFMF was recognized by both Sacramento's Mayor Fargo and California's Governor Schwarzenegger for its achievements and contributions to the community.^{2, 3}

Submissions and Programming

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival is submission-based and highly selective, potentially accepting films in all genres and of all lengths. Programs are determined based on the nature of submissions received and the opinions of the screening committee. A separate film jury determines award winners, in addition to the audience awards.

Sac Music Seen

The Sac Music Seen program pairs local musicians and bands with local filmmakers to produce original music videos. While the larger Festival also accepts music videos for general programming, Sac Music Seen is a unique program in the local arts community and, as such, has been recognized and supported by such entities as the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and the Sacramento Bee. In the first three years of the program's existence 2004-2006), it produced and screened 70 original music videos, some of which have gone on to be shown in various MTV markets and, for example, a 2006 music video directed by Sacramento filmmaker Erik Espera for the band "Warp 11" is currently distributed by Apple's iTunes service.

10x10 Filmmaker Challenge

In another unique SFMF program, the 10x10 filmmakers are given 10 days to make a movie of no more than 10 minutes on a given theme. The program started as an midnight screening experiment in 2004 with seven films on the topic of "the Undead and the Seven Deadly Sins". Since then a total of 34 originals projects have been completed and screened and this program has become the closing event of the Festival.

Student Days

Added to the Festival in 2006, Student Days is a series of programming periods exclusively intended to showcase the works of student filmmakers and is an opportunity to support the work of these gifted individuals. The first Student Days program featured 20 projects over 2 afternoons and included works from the American Film Institute, Chapman University, Columbia College Chicago, New York University, Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Southern California.

The Sacramento Alliance of Film Festivals

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival is a member of the Sacramento Alliance of Film Festivals, along with the following partner events:

A Place Called Sacramento - a screenwriting and filmmaking program of Access Sacramento

The Sacramento Black Film Festival

The Sacramento French Film Festival

The Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

The Sacramento Jewish Film Festival

References

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External Links

Official Website Sacramento Film and Music Festival

SFMF myspace [4]