2026-04-08T15:14:04-07:00 2025-06-30 262327737 Richard Watson Jr CPA 8 Metro Lane Sacramento CA 95816 990EZ 2024-07-01 943310464 San Francisco Art and Film Program SANF 4158642026 540 Alabama Street San Francisco CA 94110 Isaiah Dufort Director 2026-04-08 true true Richard Watson P00020816 9166060552 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://artandfilm.org/ X 156266 X 154016 2250 0 0 0 0 156266 47000 42861 18802 800 36254 145717 10549 20120 30669 X 22320 32969 22320 32969 2200 2300 20120 30669 Arts and cultural education.The purpose of the San Francisco Art and Film Program (SFAFP) is to provide middle, high school and college students from a wide spectrum of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds with artistic, cultural and intellectual activities in order to fill critical gaps in arts enrichment not addressed by San Francisco Bay Area school districts.The program plays an innovative social service role for San Francisco's youth by providing positive, intellectually stimulating and socially engaging activities outside of school during a time when risks to urban teenagers are both great and ubiquitous. The school year ending in June 2025 marked San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers 32nd year of offering Bay Area students free access to arts programming. We were able to serve over 650 students, primarily coming from public high schools in San Francisco. CINE CLUBClassic films were held at The Randall Museum on Fridays. Attendance was free and ranged from 40 to 80 students, plus mentors, parents and alumni. Students were introduced the film and its director before beginning each screening. Cine Club films are selected to give students a wide background in the history of serious film and to thrill and excite them about the scope and breath of great filmmaking. The discussions help students explore their ideas in depth. Students are encouraged to share their questions, personal observations, likes and dislikes.Our annual film essay contest was held with cash prizes for the best essays on films screened in Cine Club that year.ART SATURDAYStudents met bi-monthly to tour art galleries and museums or special cultural events with mentors. Following the tour students discussed their experience over a lunch provided by SF Art and Film. Destinations included SFMOMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Minnesota Street Project, the Exploratorium, the Silent Film Festival, and downtown SF art galleries.Art Saturday is free of charge and open to any student who is interested in attending. It offers a perfect way for students, especially those from outside San Francisco, to become more familiar and relaxed about moving around the city. It is also an opportunity for students from different schools to meet and make friendships through shared interest in art.FREE TICKETSThroughout the year Art & Film is able to offer free seats to a variety of cultural events. All middle school, high school and college students are eligible. These seats are donated by the cultural institutions, many of which have worked with us since our inception in 1993.Attendance ranged between 15 and 60 students depending on tickets available. Venues included the SF Symphony, the SF Opera, the SF Ballet, the American Conservatory Theater, Word for Word Theater Company, and various film festivals.FILM WORKSHOPEach workshop meeting ran approximately six hours long, during which students studied and discussed films, developed scripts and prepared their own film shoots. The Film Workshop is our only fee-based program, with 37% of the workshop students receiving scholarship funds. In the summer, we held our annual Summer Film Intensive with 18 students spending nine days studying great works of cinema and making their very first films. Our Film Workshop is offered annually is open to all Bay Area students, from late middle school through college. Each year, new students are introduced to the fundamentals of professional filmmaking while returning students refine and deepen their skills. Film professionals help students produce their own prize-winning films. The workshop acts as producer, helping students to build a portfolio of work that will help them get into film schools and develop a foundation of skills looking, seeing, thinking, doing - that will serve them throughout their careers. Students are given hands on experience in editing, lighting, photography and directing. 130005 130005 Ronald Chase Founding Dir. 40.00 17000 Huntly Gordon Treasurer 10.00 0 Donna Kempner Secretary 2.00 0 Frish Brandt President 10.00 0 Isaiah Dufort Executive Dir. 30.00 30000 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false CA Isaiah Dufort 540 Alabama Street San Francisco CA 941101301 4158642026 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 165039 177561 176121 138581 154016 811318 0 0 165039 177561 176121 138581 154016 811318 47548 763770 0 0 0 811318 0.94140 0.90500 X Other Expenses.1002 Office Expenses $5274 Other Expenses.1003 Information Technology $1499 Other Expenses.1005 Travel $4364 Other Expenses.1012 Insurance $480 Other Expenses.1 Meals and refreshments $10265 Other Expenses.2 Film rental and expense $6384 Other Expenses.3 Software $3612 Other Expenses.4 Orientation and outreach $3346 Other Expenses.5 Film festival fees $682 Other Expenses.8 Bank fees $281 Other Expenses.9 Tax, license and fees $42 Other Expenses.10 Production expense $25 Total Liabilities.1001 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Beginning $2200 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Ending $2300 Program Service Acccomplishments The school year ending in June 2021 marked San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers 28th year of offering Bay Area students free access to arts programming. We were able to serve over 600 students, primarily coming from public high schools in San Francisco. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of the public spaces we would normally gather, we moved nearly all our programs online. In spite of these challenges, we were able to host our Cine Club programs throughout the school year, gathering student audiences in the range of 40-65 per screening. In place of our Art Saturday tours we produced instructional videos for students on a range of subjects, including important artists, filmmakers and composers though out history. Most of our Free Tickets program institutional partners were shut down by the pandemic but we continued to offer students live-streamed concerts with the San Francisco Symphony followed by discussions with the symphony musicians. The American Conservatory Theater, Cutting Ball Theater, and Open Source Baroque also partnered with us to provide online cultural events to our students with attendance ranging from 10 to 45 students. Our Film Workshop, our sole fee-based program, continued to meet weekly on Sundays over Zoom to teach filmmaking skills, study great works of cinema, and produce students films, with 25% of the workshop students receiving scholarship funds.