SAFILM - San Antonio Film Festival will be 5 days this year....June 23-27, 2010 at the Instituto Cultural de Mexico.
Call for Entries has ended... The judges are working hard on the selection process. Accepted entries will be posted on the website by June 6, 2010.
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SAFILM Executive Director, Adam Rocha, is Co-Chair of the Film & Video discipline and LUMINARIA Volunteers are Wanted...Volunteer individuals, companies, or groups are needed for various support jobs. Visit http://register.luminariasa.org/
The volunteer training session is March 10th at 6:00 pm at the Pearl Studio, located in the Full Goods Building, 312 Pearl Parkway. Parking is free.
Join us and be part of San Antonio’s celebration of the arts. Please forward this message to everyone you know that may want to volunteer. Luminaria is March 13, 2010.
the Instituto is hosting SAISD Teach Me Film FestivalFeaturing student produced teacher recruiting commercials from Thomas Jefferson High School, Brackenridge High School and Sam Houston High School January 22, 2010.
Free Movie Tickets for Facebook friends...
Congratulations to our Facebook friend Moses Castillo who received 2 tee shirts and 2 movie passes, the novel and movie poster for the film The Young Victoria because he was the 1,000 fan of SAFILM – San Antonio Film Festival on our Facebook page. Check out our page for more contests to come…
Area College Invitational on Oct 22nd at Luthers Café! Join us Thursday, October 22th, 2009 from 6 to 9PM for our Call for Entry Reception for college students at Luther's Café. BE SURE TO RSVP by Oct 18 by emailing us at
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(1425 N Main Ave, San Antonio, TX | 210.223.7727) Its a Free Event sponsored by Luther's Café that includes Free hors d'oeuvres, Free Swag – T-shirts and also get the chance to meet the 2009 SAFILM Grand Prize winner, cash bar will be available.
When: October 22th , 2009 – Thursday 6:00pm to 9:00pm.
Where: Luther's Café | 1425 N Main Ave San Antonio, TX 78212
Special thanks to our friends at World Audio Lights the premier South Texas Rental & Event Production Powerhouse. 
Nightrocker has been a supporter of SAFILM since the very beginning… thanks for the continued music support!
SHOWBIZ SOFTWARE - Most writers are also independent producers, whereby they write and then later produce their own stories. If this is so, then I've just listed the basic tool kit anyone needs to be an Indie Filmmaker!! SAFILM is giving SHOWBIZ SOFTWARE to the 9 award winners. 
Free Workshop on Saturday June 27 at 11am.
OSCAR nominated documentary filmmaker, Adrian Belic will give a free filmmaker workshop on Saturday June 27 at 11am. His new film BEYOND THE CALL, is screening at SAFILM. He will give a talk about the art and process of filmmaking. His focus will be on documentries, but many of the things to be discussed will be relevant to fiction filmmakers, because it is all about story.
To be discussed:
- Finding the story
- Shooting the story
- Crafting the story
- Getting the story out into the world
This will be more of a discussion rather then a straight lecture, so we expect at least some of the audience to come with questions. The filmmaking process is a collaborative process and we look forward to our time together to be collaborative as well.
Adrian Belic’s first documentary feature was GENGHIS BLUES, which won the Sundance Audience Award and was nominated for an Academy Award last year. His new film, BEYOND THE CALL, which is screening at SAFILM has screened at over 150 film festivals on five continents winning more then 40 awards including Grand Jury Prizes and Audience Awards. It aired nation-wide on the Emmy Award winning PBS series Independent Lens.
We are glad to have Adrian Belic as our guest and are excited that he will give San Antonio a free filmmaker workshop on Saturday June 27 at 11am.
JJ Lopez aka Soul Boy ’74 will be performing at this years SAN ANTONIO FILM FESTIVAL Providing only the finest in up-tempo, quality, and most of all soulful jams. Catch him June 26th (Friday) & Online at http://www.myspace.com/jjlopezakasoulboy74 or http://www.ilike.com/artist/emerging/jjlopez
SAFILM is very happy to bring you a performance by Guillermo Ortiz. Guillermo is a talented Composer, and Performer who released his new CD “Stories From the Present” in February 2008. He has been a professional musician for over 15 years.
Among his performances he played several TV shows, and he also performed at The Aztec Stadium in Mexico City. In Boston Guillermo had performed at Berklee Performance Center, Peabody Museum in Harvard, and different clubs like The Middle East, Massa, The Paradise, The Milky Way, and Mojitos. He received his Bachelors of Music in Jazz Composition and performance from Berklee College Of Music.
Be sure to visit Guillermo and give a listen to his music at http://www.myspace.com/guillermoortizmusic |
Tacoland veterans Los Mescaleros will be performing at this years SAN ANTONIO FILM FESTIVAL. Catch them June 27th (Saturday) & Check them out online at www.myspace.com/losmescaleros
Judging for the 2009 San Antonio Film Festival took place this past weekend. We are very excited about the all the fantastic entrees we received this year, a full schedule and lineup for the 2009 SAFILM festival is forthcoming. 
This years Judges included: (In no particular order) Nathan Cone, Joseph Johnson, Ben Olivio, Sylvia Rincon, Fernando Cano, Kinya Cano, Juan Manuel Gonzalez Fernandez, Mark Jones, Kiko Martinez, Victoria Hanan, Kerry Valderrama, and Frances Santos.
SAFILM would like to thank all of you for your time and efforts. Speical Thanks to Delicious Tamales for there Delicious Tamales!
Just Announced... for all of you members of the Snowbyrd Nation join us as Snowbyrd helps us close out the 15th Annual SAN ANTONIO FILM FESTIVAL on Sunday June 28th. Check them out online at www.snowbyrd.net or on myspace at www.myspace.com/snowbyrds.
Local Favorite Buttercup will be performing at this years SAN ANTONIO FILM FESTIVAL. Catch them on Opening night June 25th (thursday) at 11pm - midnight. Check them out online at www.buttercult.com or www.myspace.com/buttercult
SAFILM CALL FOR ENTRIES DEADLINE HAS CLOSED! Thank You For Your Submission! LATE ENTRY DEADLINE MAY 15th 2009
Just a Reminder, there's only 5 days left to submit your film for the 2009 San Antonio Film Festival so send in your submissions today! 
A special thanks to the great people at Clear Channel Outdoor.
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SAFILM holds its first press conference announcing its CALL FOR ENTRIES for the 2009 San Antonio Film Festival at the Instituto Cultural de Mexico SAFILM CALL FOR ENTRIES! Deadline May 1, 2009
see film submission for more details.
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