Must-read film industry memo alert! I'm so proud of supporting this work to elevate San Francisco Bay Area film. I commissioned two Bay Area film research projects, while at Kenneth Rainin Foundation, to deep our understanding of how the Arts Program could better support local filmmakers. I thought learning more about the local film industry would be essential to go beyond just making grants to actually help nurture the ecosystem. After the first project, researcher John Carnwath of WolfBrown recommended that we could greatly deepen our understanding with a follow-up project that could be led by Paula Smith Arrigoni, whom he interviewed as a Bay Area film leader adding perspective to his desk research. Paula, John and Bay Area Video Coalition's research and development manager, Kailen Sallander, did a remarkable job with the second project. There's tons to learn from BAVC's survey of the Bay Area’s makers and accompanying examination of what we can learn from other cities and regions successfully competing to attract film and media projects. Austin, Denver and New Orleans, to name a few, have major lessons for the Bay and I'm grateful for Paula's idea to subsequently publish the memo below. The work is already contributing to advances in the field. Namely bolstering the Oakland Film Commission's case supporting it's first film rebate incentive and a new production database. Despite huge budget challenges this year, the Oakland City Council approved it! The research's lesson are likely useful for many parts of the country, so if you work in or support film, get to reading. The memo takes the findings and makes them extremely actionable.
📊✨BAVC Media has published the Bay Area Film Production Memo, alongside a nationwide research study designed to learn more about strategies to boost film production in the Bay Area! The project was developed in collaboration with WolfBrown, with support from Film SF (the San Francisco Film Commission) and the Bay Area Media Maker Summit (BAMMS), East Bay Film Collective and essential funding from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. 📰 Read the announcement exclusively on International Documentary Association (IDA)! The research involved consultation from an advisory committee representing the Roxie Theater, SFFILM, Ryzo Studio & Mindful Media, and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Steve Snider
1mo
Fantastic! Thank you!
Executive Director
2moThank you Ted for championing this project, Bay Area film and media making and our team! So grateful for your partnership 🙏