2024-11-06T13:53:41-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 823191114 SILICON VALLEY AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL SILI 4088860049 816 N 1st Street Suite 204 San Jose CA 95112 Chike Nwoffiah Executive Director 2095982561 2024-11-06 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X www.svaff.org X X 193720 X 165280 28440 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 193720 0 0 15200 88500 58482 31538 0 193720 0 8224 1800 10024 X 4404 8224 0 0 3820 1800 8224 10024 0 0 8224 10024 The mission of the Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) is to promote an understanding and appreciation of Africa and Africans through moving images. The specific purposes for which this corporation is organized are: 1.) Curate a world-class festival of African films and provide audiences access to the richness, diversity and vitality of Africa's creative expressions. 2.) Promote cultural literacy by hosting community forums, events and programs that provide our community an opportunity to engage and interact with Africa's content creators on issues of personal, local and global significance. 3.) Promote ideas exchange and collaborations between African, African diaspora and global content creators and allied services practitioners. The Silicon Valley African Film Festival exclusively focuses on films made by African and African diaspora filmmakers and, crucially, provides audiences with exquisite lenses to the real Africa. We have built a substantial following and have become an annual destination film event in Silicon Valley that draws out of state and international guests. Programs of the film festival include: our flagship weekend showcase in October, the year-round African Cinema Cafe Series and Africa in the Classroom Film Series. 1.) The Film Festival Weekend was held on October 12-15, 2023. The festival screened 100 films from 32 countries with 25 filmmakers in attendance. About 1000 people attended the program to watch the films, enjoy live performances and participate in the several panel discussions and workshops we offered. Over 50% of the films screened at SVAFF 2023 were World / North America premieres and by female directors. 142000 142000 African Cinema Cafe Series: Year round community screenings of select films in community spaces. Our cafe series is our community outreach, partnership and audience development program. It offers us the opportunity to take films to the people in more intimate settings with the flexibility to present films that speak to specific audiences on their own turf. The scope and scale of our Cinema Cafe has expanded in geometric proportions over the years we began delivering the program as a virtual program. We have positioned our Cinema Cafe as a pathway to community courageous conversations. We continued to hold our Cinema Cafe as a monthly virtual program throughout 2023 and had a lot of success. Our films continue to provoke and stimulate conversations on issues of race, gender, identity were screened and filmmakers, invited panelists and community members engaged in very fruitful conversations. 40000 40000 Africa in the Classroom Film Series: Our school engagement initiative brings curriculum related films to local elementary, middle and high schools for use in classrooms. SVAFF sends facilitators to present the films and engage students in conversations. Some schools sometimes opt for a more elaborate assembly style presentation that includes our African drumming and dance ensemble. We pivoted this program to an online format in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but are happy to report that this program now fully returned to in-person presentations in schools. 11720 11720 193720 Chike Nwoffiah Executive Director 15 9500 0 0 Dela Acolatse Secretary 5 0 0 0 Deffria Bass Director 2 0 0 0 Adolpha Cole Director of Programs 7 0 0 0 Zaza Kabayadondo Director of Academic Programs 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CA Chike Nwoffiah 816 N 1st Street Suite 204 San Jose CA 95112 4088860049 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 50464 128500 131000 132400 165280 607644 3500 13800 65000 64800 28440 175540 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53964 142300 196000 197200 193720 783184 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 783184 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53964 142300 196000 197200 193720 783184 1 1 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 iMac pro laptop Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 iMac laptop Loss of volunteer staff due to relocation, hence our personnel strength was challenged.