Festival Data:

• Established: 1977
• Genre: Gay - Lesbian (click to see)
• Attendance: 60000
• Media Attendance: 150
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 350
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 500
• Total Number of Films Screened: 267
• Total Screenings: 150
• # of Shorts Screened: 183
• # of Features Screened: 84

• Competitive
• Has Panels

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

With annual attendance of 60,000 to 80,000 the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival is the longest running, largest and most widely recognized LGBT film exhibition event in the world.  Founded in 1977, the Festival is the most prominent and well attended LGBT arts event in the Bay Area.  Frameline also presents year-round exhibition events.  Frameline at the Center: Free Screenings for the Community features monthly screenings of socially relevant works at the San Francisco LGBT community Center.  Year-round programs also include members-only screenings and special events, as well as sneak previews of feature films and documentaries.

Since 1990, nearly eighty films and videos have been completed with assistance from the Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund.  Awards are made annually and provide much needed support to filmmakers for their final editing and lab work.  Once completed, these films often go on to receive international exposure.  Submissions include documentary, educational, narrative, animated and experimental projects by or about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their communities.  Frameline also supports filmmakers with the largest cash awards of any LGBT film festival in the world: the $10,000 First Feature Award and the $10,000 Best Documentary Award, as well as three $2,500 audience awards.

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.frameline.org/ filmmaker-support/ festival-submissions/

Curent Film Previews:

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