SAN FRANCISCO
FILM SOCIETY AND YAHOO! VIDEO KICK
OFF THE SFIFF50 GREENWORLD CONTEST
AND LAUNCH VIDEO CONTENT PARTNERSHIP
$1,000 Cash Prize and Screening at
50th San Francisco
International Film Festival’s
GreenWorld Celebration for Winning
Film Focused on “What It Means to Be
Green”
San Francisco, CA and Sunnyvale, CA
– March 8, 2007--The San Francisco
Film Society (SFFS), and Yahoo!
Video, (http://video.yahoo.com)
today announced the 50th
San Francisco International Film
Festival (SFIFF50) GreenWorld
Contest powered by Jumpcut, a Yahoo!
company. Additionally, the two will
launch a branded video channel
featuring content from the San
Francisco Film Society
The SFIFF50 GreenWorld Contest,
presented by SFFS and Jumpcut, is an
online competition for short films
focused on the necessary
conversations, changes, risks,
leadership, vision and imagination
needed to make the world truly
sustainable.
In works of two minutes or less
filmmakers will tackle the question,
“What does
green mean to you?”
Contest entrants can edit and submit
films on Jumpcut,
http://www.jumpcut.com/groups/greenworld,
between March 8 – April 22. During
that time, viewers will be invited
to “give love" to entries they find
particularly enjoyable, insightful,
memorable or otherwise praiseworthy.
Up to ten entries selected by a
qualified panel of judges will be
included in the final voting stage
from April 26–May 6 where viewers
can cast one vote for the Audience
Favorite. The Grand Prize Winner
will be selected from among the
Finalists by a panel of noted
industry professionals.
The Grand Prize Winner will be
announced and presented with a
$1,000 cash prize and the Audience
Favorite will be announced at the
SFIFF50 Golden Gate Awards ceremony
on Thursday, May 9. The two winning
films and a selection of runner-up
shorts will be screened at the
Festival’s GreenWorld Celebration
which follows the Golden Gate Awards
ceremony on May 9. The films will
also be available online on Jumpcut,
http://www.jumpcut.com/groups/greenworld.
Full contest details and entry
information are available at
http://festival07.sffs.org/greenworld.
“Yahoo! Video is one of the most
creative groups the San Francisco
Film Society has had the opportunity
to work with,” said Graham Leggat,
executive director of the San
Francisco Film Society. “We are
very excited by their new ideas for
filmmakers and film audiences and
are looking forward to exploring
with them the converging frontiers
of film and digital technology.”
“As a leading online video
destination, Yahoo! Video is
constantly looking for opportunities
to enhance the online video
experience for our users.” said
Vince Broady, Head of Yahoo!
Entertainment. “By partnering with
the San Francisco Film Society, we
are offering exciting, high-quality
independent film content to our
users within a branded experience.
And by providing an online video
editing platform through Jumpcut,
we’ll empower our users to express
“What it means to be green” through
the power of video”
The SFFS channel on Yahoo! Video
will be available at
http://video.yahoo.com starting
the week of March 19, 2007. The
channel will feature content and
creative programming from the
landmark 50th San
Francisco International Film
Festival (April 26 – May 10, 2007).
In addition, the channel will
continue throughout the year with
programming drawn from the Film
Society’s full slate of events
content including interviews with
directors of the SFIFF films, clips
from the SF360 television show movie
scene and the 2nd San
Francisco International Animation
Festival in October 2007,
About the
San Francisco
International Film Festival
Founded in 1957, the vanguard San
Francisco International Film
Festival is the longest-running film
festival in the
Americas.
Held each spring for fifteen days,
the International is an
extraordinary showcase of cinematic
discovery and innovation in the
country’s most beautiful city,
featuring 25 juried awards and more
than 220 films and live events with
upwards of 100 participating
filmmakers and diverse audiences of
80,000+ people.
The landmark 50th International runs
April 26May 10, 2007 at the
Sundance Cinemas Kabuki, the Castro
Theatre, the
Museum of Modern Art, Landmarkšs Clay Theatre and the Cowell
Theater at
Fort Mason Center
in San Francisco;
the Pacific Film Archive Theater in
Berkeley; and Landmarkšs
Aquarius Theatre in
Palo Alto, as
well as several smaller satellite
venues.
For tickets and information go to
www.sffs.org, call 925.866.9559 or
visit the Main Ticket Outlet at the
Sundance Cinema Kabuki (1881
Post Street).
For additional information log on to
www.sffs.org
or call 415.561.5000.
San Francisco Film Society,
presenter of the flagship SFIFF, is
a nonprofit arts and educational
organization dedicated to
celebrating the world of film and
media in all its glorious forms. The
Film Society’s year-round programs
and events are concentrated in four
core areas: Internationalism and
Cross-Cultural Exchange; Educating
and Inspiring Bay Area Youth;
Showcasing Bay Area Film Culture;
and Exploring New Digital Media.
In early 2006 the Film Society
unveiled SF360, a broad-spectrum
series of initiatives designed to
showcase the extraordinary vitality
and variety of the Bay Area film and
media scene, including
www.SF360.org, SF360 San Francisco
Movie Night, SF360 Film+Club and the
television show SF360 Movie Scene.
The Film Society runs its acclaimed
Education Program that each year
introduces international cinema and
media literacy to several thousand
teachers and students (ages 8 – 18).
The Film Society will present the
second annual San Francisco
International Animation Festival in
October 2007, the 11th annual New
Italian Cinema festival in November
2007 and a new SF International
Youth Media Festival in early 2008.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global
Internet brand and one of the most
trafficked Internet destinations
worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to
connect people to their passions,
their communities, and the world's
knowledge. Yahoo! is headquartered
in Sunnyvale, California.
