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This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area, both ongoing and defunct. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The 23rd San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2024, were given on December 15, 2024. [1] The nominations were announced on December 13, 2024, with The Brutalist leading the nominations with nine, followed by Conclave with seven and Anora with six.
CAAMFest traces its roots to Asian CineVision's New York Asian American Film Festival, begun in 1978.From 1981 to 1984, ACV spun off a traveling version of their festival that toured the U.S. CAAM partnered with ACV to showcase their traveling festival in San Francisco, adding in other films by local filmmakers to help round out the program.
The San Francisco International Film Festival also involves live music and film events, which usually feature contemporary musicians performing original scores to classic silent films. Music/film pairings at SFIFF have included: Scott Amendola, Matthias Bossi, Mike Patton, and William Winant accompanying Waxworks (1924 Film), Directed Paul Leni ...
In 2001, thrash metal band Slayer recorded the concert film War at the Warfield (2003) there. On November 12, 2003, hard rock band Korn performed during a small club tour, which is a rarity for the band. In May 2008, The Warfield changed management. The final show with Bill Graham Presents performance by Phil Lesh ran until 3:30 a.m., May 19, 2008.
Sixty artists performed during the first Outside Lands. It was headlined by Radiohead, who became the first band to play after dark in Golden Gate Park.A multi-generational, multi-genre "panorama of alternative rock, indie pop, jam bands, conscious rap, progressive Latin and world-beat fusion," the festival sold out, with 130,000 attendees over the course of its three days.
The Stern Grove Festival is an admission-free series of performing arts events held during the summer months in San Francisco. Established in 1938, the festival is held at Sigmund Stern Grove, a eucalyptus-wooded natural amphitheater on a 33-acre (130,000-square-meter) site about two miles (three kilometers) south of Golden Gate Park that ranges from 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard west to ...
SF IndieFest also runs the spin-off film festivals DocFest, the SF Documentary Film Festival, started in 2001, [4] [20] Another Hole in the Head, a horror and science fiction festival started in 2003, [4] [21] the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival, started in 2019, [22] and the Livable Planet Festival, which was launched in 2021 as a replacement for the San Francisco Green Film ...