SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The first of three rounds is now open for those interested in receiving a grant for a film or television production project in the city of Sacramento.
Sacramento Film + Media will award four $5,000 grants during each of three gran
Hundreds of Bay Area residents, many of them kids and their families, were expected to watch free screenings of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” this weekend as part of a community-led effort to promote visibility and representation of As
The family of Brandon Lee has been overcome with sadness and frustration in learning that another accidental fatal shooting occurred on a film set.
On Thursday, Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed when a gun handled by Alec Baldwin misfired on the set of
Lissette Feliciano felt like a failure.
The San Francisco-born actress, writer and director had been trying to make it in the industry for years, but it didn’t seem like her career was going anywhere. She worried, too, that she’d failed one of her bi
Fremont native Kate Tsang creates some special feel-good magic in her debut feature “Marvelous and the Black Hole,” available through Sunday for online viewing as part of the Mill Valley Film Festival and also as an in-person screening experience t
BAY AREA, CA — An East Bay high school student who recently began accepting submissions for a new youth environmental film festival was tapped to give a TEDx Talk about the power of film to fight climate change.
Quarry Lane School junior and filmmake
Cary Joji Fukunaga admits he’s a little exhausted as he appears on a video chat during the U.S. press day for the latest James Bond film, “No Time to Die.”
The Bond circus can do that to people. He talked from New York, where he purchased his first p
A new report of actors expressing anti-vaccination views on sets states that Letitia Wright is supporting said beliefs on the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever set. Plot details regarding the second installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchis
Ben Fong-Torres’ office bears all the markings of his life as a walking, talking rock ‘n’ roll encyclopedia. A wall of CDs stacked top to bottom, arranged alphabetically, stands adjacent to a wall of books. Scattered around are rock ephemera: vintag
In 1977, when Anne Huang was 12 years old, her family fled the threat of martial law in Taiwan and moved to San Francisco. Here she became a star student, double-majoring in chemistry and biology at UCSF, where she graduated in the class of 1990 and
There are Bay Area movies and then there are Bay Area movies.
Plenty of iconic movies have been shot here, from “Vertigo” to “Bullitt” to, in part, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” But then there are the movies that only could have been
Chadwick Boseman’s legacy will continue to loom large: Howard University and Netflix have established a $5.4 million scholarship in the name of the late actor and awarded it to four students at his alma mater.
The university and the streaming giant s
Ten years ago, Philip Wang and Cathy Nguyen shot a breakup scene on a park bench in South Pasadena for “Strangers, Again,” a short film by Wang’s production company and YouTube channel, Wong Fu Productions.
The 16-minute story about how a relationshi
Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller has won the rights to the original film in a massive lawsuit. Miller wrote the original Friday the 13th back in 1980 and the film became a massive hit and spawned a multimedia franchise. The 12 Friday the 1
-FILMS MADE ON THIS EVENT WILL BE Screened at a local Theater in the Bay Area within a few months and Voted on.
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Film festivals in the North Bay are few and far between, exempt from the multiple film festivals held year-round with the California Film Foundation and the Sacramento Film Festival. However, Vallejo has stepped up its arts and entertainment events i
Jean Hale, who tussled with James Coburn’s character in the spy spoof In Like Flint and portrayed the hatcheck-girl accomplice of David Wayne’s Mad Hatter on TV’s Batman, has died. She was 82.
Hale died Aug. 3 of natural causes in Santa Monica, her fa
Saying that “a strike would effectively shut down California state film and television production,” IATSE has told California lawmakers that “it is both outrageous and immoral that the studios oppose basic worker rights, an opposition that may lead
Sacramento has a new lead for its public arts and film efforts, with the recent hiring of Megan Van Voorhis as the city's first culture and creative economy manager.
The city announced that it hired Van Voorhis on Tuesday afternoon. Her employment wit
Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” capped off Labor Day weekend at the box office with a bang. The superhero action-adventure, starring Canadian actor Simu Liu, had an even bigger debut than expected, collecting $94.4 million in it
