Read the 2007 Schools at the Festival Program

This longstanding SFFS outreach program creates a strong connection between the annual San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) and the local educational community, providing students of all ages the opportunity to participate in the Festival experience. Scheduled weekday matinee screenings for elementary, middle and high school groups are supplemented by special visits to classrooms by filmmakers whose work is being shown at the Festival. Each year, the program provides valuable teaching tools for a visual age by offering Festival tickets at a subsidized rate to over 4,000 students and teachers, and sending dozens of local and international filmmakers into classrooms to share their work and interact with students.

Bay Area students and their teachers enjoy a significant discount on Festival admission (only $2.50 per person) to allow easier access to greater numbers of young people. Tickets for the program are available exclusively to Bay Area educators and students and may be purchased only through the Schools at the Festival office. Schools at the Festival tickets cannot be purchased through the regular Festival box office.

The 2008 Schools at the Festival program will be available in March.

For more information
Keith Zwölfer
Education Program Manager
415-561-5040
kzwolfer@sffs.org

One of the first and largest programs of its kind, Schools at the Festival was founded in 1991 by the late Robert S. Donn (1931–2003), a retired SFUSD teacher with a tremendous passion for film. Since its inception, the program has attained a level of national prestige and is often used as a model on which other film organizations and festivals have based their own education programs.