Filmmakers, if you are interested in learning more about digital cinema techniques (at all stages of production) with hands-on opportunities to create web content and viral videos, promotional spots and short films? Interested in working on a feature film? Or just want to support other filmmakers. Perhaps you have experience and expertise in certain areas, from lighting to composition, sound topost production or anything in between and would be willing to help teach others? Do you have any ideas …

The SJSFF is getting ready to launch it's fourth year and after the amazing success at Santana Row in 2011, we are initiating the SJSFF Project where YOU can be part of the filmmaking experience and walk the Red Carpet at the next festival. Launched by SJ filmmakers to support local filmmaking, together we will help craft new short films that will introduce the world class films that will be screened as part of the SJSFF. Filmmakers, film lovers and those who want to get involved in the filmmaki …

Enjoy film? Like discussions that move beyond likes and dislikes and explore the ways character and circumstance in film reveal true aspects of life and the ways humans relate deeply (or don't)? In this group we'll meet at the Landmark Theater in Berkeley for matinees on some Saturdays--September through November, view artful films, and then stroll to a local cafe' for discussion and coffee/tea for about an hour. Join for one, Saturday a few, or all four. Potential for movie and dinner as a fun …

Meet others who deliberately seek out challenging foreign, avant-garde, and experimental films screened in San Francisco or Berkeley. After each film, we will get together for conversation at a cafe. If you, like me, also enjoy thought-provoking literature, check out my Classic Literature and Cafes Club: http://www.meetup.com/Classic-Literature-and-Cafes

As a creative laboratory, Palo Alto Int'l Film Festival's mission is to foster innovation and educate the community about those ideas that most inspire its members. John Lasseter of Pixar expressed that "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires art." PAIFF strives to be a conduit for increased innovation in art, technology and film. As movies migrate to digital, the future of cinema will depend on the cutting edge tools that continue to be conceived and developed in the Bay Area. These too …

The purpose of the "Let's make a FILM"  group is to help one another in making short films, music videos, documentaries or what ever we can dream up. All experience levels welcome. Also come participate in our LMAF writers group to create original material for us to produce. Current LMAF members must Log In to view current and past projects under the "Pages" tab.

Zoom In Videomakers is a collaborative group of volunteer videographers who are jazzed about local community access to the media.  Our venue sponsor is the Midpeninsula Community Media Center in Palo Alto, California. They cablecast five (5) local channels on Comcast and U-verse and stream live from their website. The Media Center is actively looking for local video content to program on their channels and streams.  One of this group's goals is to create just such local content about local …

… ., a nonprofit public benefit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, produces films, videos and holographic images for a variety of educational, documentary and cultural purposes, and/or promotes public appreciation of film and video. WHOmentors.com, Inc. also encourages new, foreign and independent filmmakers through the organization and presentation of film expositions and festivals or which show old or difficult to obtain films in noncommercial facilities. Got a smartphone? Send your on-site movi …