In progress: Amanda Micheli (left), Jeff Zimbalist (center) and Richard Levien (right, photo by Pat Mazzera) received SFFS/KRF Filmmaking grants in 2009 and are busy building their new social-issue feature films.By Michael Fox
For the great majority of the public, documentaries are still educational films while narrative features are “the movies.” It's the rare fiction feature film that handles social justice themes without condescension and oversimplification. The San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants were created to support the local development of lively and intelligent social-issue narrative films, with the hope of strengthening the San Francisco filmmaking community—and bringing more forward-thinking films by talented makers into general release. The grants, which run 2009-13, will be awarded in the spring and fall of each year and the total amount disbursed over these five years will be more than $3 million. The inaugural class for the $35,000 grants consists of Amanda Micheli and Jeff Zimbalist, Fall 2009, Richard Levien, Spring 2009. Here's the scoop on their projects. More
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