Our Film Festival

The San Francisco FROZEN FILM FESTIVAL shows yearly in July, and brings independent filmmakers and musicians to the San Francisco Bay Area from around the globe!

The festival itself is a collection of razor's edge independent films and bands. Included in the festival are nights of live music concerts, short films, animation, global features, long and short documentaries, skate films, music documentaries, and music videos.

All films screened and accepted into the festival inspire the artisticcommunity with work that is leading film, music, and cinematography's evolution and that will ensure the Bay Area's reputation for innovation in thearts.

Of the filmmakers chosen to screen their films, some will win "best picture awards," all will gain additional press, some will meetfuturecollaborators, fall in love, and all will continue on the process of furthering what we hope to be long and fulfilling careers in the film and music industries.

Our Name and Purpose

San Francisco is one of the great cities of the world, but none other than Mark Twain famously quipped: "The coldest summer I ever spent was my summer in San Francisco." Some have disputed whether Twain actually said the words, but none have denied that the beautiful City By The Bay is affected by a summer breeze. The Frozen Film Festival takes place every year in the Dead of Summer, when San Francisco is at its most chill.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

History

The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival was founded in 2006 to provide a forum for Bay Area Filmmakers to mingle and be exposed to Non-Bay Area Filmmakers, with the intention of creating a lasting and sustainable Bay Area Film Network that will continue to support and have a place to exhibit films made by people without an overflowing Rolodex and 3-picture deal. Our mission is clear: San Francisco's Film Community, although they may mingle in L.A., New York, and Overseas, is based in San Francisco. To achieve this, we are focusing on elements native to San Francisco: the amazing animation community, and the avante-artist (hence our locale in the Mission District). With the decline in price of equipment, anybody can make a film- but we still believe that until a film gets seen on the big screen, it hasn't been born yet. Our intention is to give birth to Bay Area Film babies, and have little Bay Area Film Babies and Non-Bay Area Film Babies mixing with that famous diversity and geo-politick that San Francisco embodies more than any other city in the world.

• Bay Area Festival Guide