Film School Shorts would never have existed without the generous support of inventor, philanthropist, and film-lover Maurice Kanbar. Kanbar passed away this summer at 92, leaving behind an incredible legacy of ingenuity and generosity.
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🎥💙The 2nd Annual Homemade Film Festival is in full swing! Watch it on the channel. Watch, like, and share your favorite to win this year's Audience Award!
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Filmmakers! SFFILM's Rainin Grant supports narrative features examining social justice in the screenwriting, development, and post-production stages. Open once annually, the grant is accepting applications through March 12, 2021. Apply here: bit.ly/3odwffi #FilmTwitter
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Hey film lovers, we want to know: What's YOUR favorite movie set in the Bay Area? 
#BayCurious is making a list (and checking it twice), and we want to highlight your picks on our website! Reply with your favorites, and share some holiday binge recommendations:
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“I believe that I, Peaches Christ, am the vehicle that allowed Joshua to love himself.”
Learn how a former Catholic school kid grew up to become , one of SF’s most iconic drag queens.
🌈 Watch ‘Better Known As Peaches Christ’ now: youtu.be/LLSQUyXWlkE
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“I’ve been on my roof for anywhere between 14 days and infinity.”
Willie is spending the pandemic living on his roof. Will he be able to break through his creative block and be free again? Watch ‘Willie In The Sky.” kqed.org/arts/13880022/
#homemadefilmfest
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Enter KQED’s Homemade Film Festival! Your short film must be:
🏠→ Made at Home
⏰→ Under 10 minutes long
📱→ Created entirely by YOU!
California only.
$1000 Grand prize. Read the guidelines and submit your film by May 7, 2020:
filmfreeway.com/KQEDHomemadeFi
#homemadefilmfest
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Short Films are a great learning tool, not just for film-makers, but for everyone involved, they are also great little things to take a few minutes off to look at. One particularly good place to look at them is
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Robert Shaw talks filming Quint's death scene for Jaws
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KQED documentary series Truly CA is accepting submissions for Season 15! Your film must be:
📽️ 1. A documentary
🏄♀️2. Feature a California subject.
Apply here:
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Feliz #DiaDeLosMuertos! This is my favorite Day of the Dead short film. Beautiful! 💀 youtu.be/-v4-1wFEzM0 via
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Watch the cool new stop motion short from Kirsten Lepore, the director of 'Hi Stranger' and 'Bottle'.
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Before scripting the new Guillermo del Toro-produced horror movie 'Antlers', C. Henry Chaisson made short films.
Watch his film 'Open 24 Hours' now --> youtu.be/EcXPQr3plEw
#yournextfavoritedirector #fss #FilmTwitter
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🎥💔An undocumented single mother risks her freedom to provide a better life for her daughter in Tanya Nunez’s short film ‘Dios Nunca Muere’.
Watch now → youtu.be/fxaW_-VhMIA
#HispanicHeritageMonth
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Watch 'Sequin Raze', Sarah Gertrude Shapiro's short film that she adapted into the Award-winning television series 'UnReal'.
Watch now: youtu.be/NRPXB_Sxzh0 #nextfavoritedirector #supportindiefilm
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🎥 The creepy dark comedy 'Ultra Attachment' will make you rethink your next YouTube binge. 😱
Watch now --> youtu.be/34i_S0kFPKg
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ON THIS DAY: Cult show #TheXFiles premiered on TV in 1993 👽
Back in 2014 we wrote about comedian/actor 's labor-of-love #XFiles podcast, and how the show made him start “to see the world as a much bigger and weirder place” growing up in Karachi:
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Join us for #SFLFF 11! Tickets to the entire lineup are now available online: sflatinofilmfestival.org 🎥
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🎥A heartbroken women packs up her house on the Greek island of Skyros in Mavra Peponis' short film 'Still'.
💔Watch now: youtu.be/9VYRJbAM-kE
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Richard Rutkowski filming a POV shot for Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, 2000
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🎥❤️ Fidel has a lot of opinions even though he doesn't understand all of the changes happening in his family. Watch the sweet Brazilian short film 'Memories of the Sea' now: youtu.be/MZ-puUS85FE
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Filmmakers, need funding to finish your LGBTQ film?
The Frameline Completion Fund provides grants up to $5,000 for the completion of films that represent and reflect LGBTQ+ life in all its complexity and richness. Apply by October 31, 2019: frameline.org/year-round/fil.
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☀️💀Not all horrifying events happen in the dark. Tragedy, drama, and pathos unfold in this selection of dark summertime short films.
🎥 Watch now: bit.ly/2HhxCWD
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A family prepares for the unwanted return of its patriarch in 'Let's Be Gentle'. Watch now: bit.ly/2MmtPv8
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These Nigerian teenagers are producing short sci-fi movies using a smart phone and other everyday items.
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Born into Hollywood royalty, Peter Fonda carved his own path with his non-conformist tendencies, earning an Oscar nomination for co-writing “Easy Rider.”
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All of the original shark models from Jaws were thought to be destroyed until fans found "The Last Bruce". (via ) 🦈👀 kqed.org/arts/13863681/
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Two shadowy agents tail a man through the streets of Oakland, California where things are not always as they seem.
Watch the animated film noir short 'Hard Candy' now: youtu.be/KxJpZokd1hk
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Actor, restauranteur, hero. We might not be worthy of #DannyTrejo, but we’re glad he’s here. (Via )
edition-m.cnn.com/2019/08/07/ent
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BOBBBYANNA (Frameline41) is now available on ! Their incredible shorts programs are like attending a film festival while at home. Find your new favorite director, and watch BOBBYANNA now: youtube.com/watch?v=nw2uTF
#KQED #Frameline
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I just assumed Ms. Morrison would live forever. And in so many ways in so many hearts and minds and spirits, she will.
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Henry has grown up haunted...by a boomerang. Start your weekend off with LOLZ. Watch Renua Giwa-Amu's animated short 'The Stick'.
Watch now --> youtu.be/bl8SYiLmeaQ #FemaleFilmmaker #cartoons
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