2024-04-12T15:18:25-07:00 2023-06-30 Richard Watson Jr CPA 8 Metro Lane Sacramento CA 95816 990EZ 2022-07-01 943310464 San Francisco Art and Film Program SANF 4158642026 540 Alabama Street San Francisco CA 94110 Ronald Chase Founding Director 2024-04-10 true Ronald Chase 999009999 true Richard Watson P00020816 9166060552 X 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X www.chaseartfilm.com X 176269 X 176121 148 0 0 0 0 176269 77520 33892 14902 4225 33386 163925 12344 57398 69742 X 59498 72042 59498 72042 2100 2300 57398 69742 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 2023 marked San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers 30th 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. Attendance at our Friday night Cine Club was healthy throughout the year with audiences in the range of 40-80 per screening. Our Cine Club partners, the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), ended operation in 2022, so we resumed our partnership with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department who hosted our films at the Randall Museum.Our Art Saturday program continued with a bimonthly program of gallery walks and museum tours, as well as special events with partners including the Exploratorium and the Silent Film Festival.Over the course of the 2022-23 season we brought students to events at the San Francisco Symphony, American Conservatory Theater, SF Opera and SF Ballet provided us with tickets to 33 events, with student attendance ranging from 20 to 55 students depending on ticket availability. Our Film Workshop, our sole fee-based program, met weekly on Sundays to teach filmmaking skills and produce students films, with 37% of the 19 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. Cine ClubTwenty-six screenings of classic films held on Fridays between September and March. Attendance is free and ranges from 40 to 80 students. Students are introduced the film and its director before each screening. Cine Club invites parents, mentors, filmmakers, and critics to join in the discussions that follow the presentation. 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 discussion helps students explore their ideas in depth. They are always encouraged to share their questions, personal observations, likes and dislikes.An annual film essay contest is held in March with cash prizes for the best essays on films screened in Cine Club that year.Art Saturday Students meet bi-monthly to tour art galleries and museums or special cultural events with mentors. Following the tour students discuss their experience over a lunch provided by SF Art and Film. Destinations include SFMOMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Minnesota Street Project, the Exploratorium, the Silent Film Festival, and downtown 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.Film WorkshopFilm professionals help students produce their own prize-winning 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.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. 143812 143812 Ronald Chase Founding Dir. 40.00 30000 Huntly Gordon Treasurer 10.00 0 Donna Kempner Secretary 2.00 0 Frish Brandt President 10.00 0 Isaiah Dufort Director 30.00 47520 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false CA Ronald Chase 540 Alabama Street San Francisco CA 941101301 4158642026 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 163512 194858 165039 177561 176121 877091 0 0 163512 194858 165039 177561 176121 877091 104916 772175 0 0 0 877091 0.88040 0.83100 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Other Expenses.1002 Office Expenses $3108 Other Expenses.1003 Information Technology $2484 Other Expenses.1005 Travel $6791 Other Expenses.1012 Insurance $3232 Other Expenses.1 Meals and refreshments $7265 Other Expenses.2 Software $4171 Other Expenses.4 DVD's and film rental $3607 Other Expenses.5 Production expense $1466 Other Expenses.6 Telephone $715 Other Expenses.7 Film festival fees $514 Other Expenses.9 Tax, license and fees $20 Other Expenses.10 Bank fees $13 Total Liabilities.1001 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Beginning $2100 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.