Besides the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, the San Francisco Bay Area is home to a number of other nonprofit media arts organizations. Here's a sampling:
Active Voice/San Francisco
www.activevoice.net
Act Now Productions/Ironweed Film Club/The Video Project/San Francisco
www.actnowproductions.com/
Artists' Television Access/San Francisco
www.atasite.org/
Bay Area Video Coalition/San Francisco
www.bavc.org
Berkeley Community Media
www.betv.org/
Bright Path Film and Video/San Rafael
www.brightpathvideo.com/
California Film Institute/San Rafael
www.cafilm.org/
California Newsreel/Berkeley
www.newsreel.org
Center for Educational Telecommunications/Berkeley
www.cetel.org
Center for Investigative Reporting/Berkeley
www.muckraker.org
Citizen Film/San Francisco
www.citizenfilm.org
Community Media Center/Palo Alto
www.communitymediacenter.net/
East Bay Media Center/Berkeley
www.eastbaymediacenter.com/
Independent Arts & Media/San Francisco
http://artsandmedia.net/
Independent Television Service (ITVS)/San Francisco
www.itvs.org
KQED-TV/San Francisco
www.kqed.org
Link TV/San Francisco
www.linktv.org
Pacific Film Archive/University of California at Berkeley
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
San Francisco Film Society
www.sfiff.org
Women's Educational Media/San Francisco
www.womedia.org/
The Working Group/Oakland
www.theworkinggroup.org
Compiled by Thomas White.
Sources: San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory. Thanks also to Gail Silva, Lily Ng and Margarita Landazuri for their suggestions.
Saul Zaentz Media Center/Berkeley
http://www.saulzaentzmediacenter.com/
The Saul Zaentz Media Center has been home to some of the more prominent documentary makers in the Bay Area, as well as the Berkeley Digital Film Institute, the Ron Jacobs Screening Room and the Alan Splet Screening Room. This past January, commercial developer Wareham Development purchased the facility for $20 million, and is in the process of raising rents by as much as triple the market rate, according to a press release generated by the ad hoc Berkeley Independent Film Group. As Documentary was going to press, the group was in the process of appealing to the Berkeley Mayor and City Council to persuade Wareham Properties to negotiate collectively with the artists over rents or allow the group enough time to find new space elsewhere in Berkeley. A number of organizations in the area, including Film Arts Foundation, ITVS, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival, had sent letters of support.
Following is a partial list, courtesy of the Berkeley Independent Film Group, of films that were produced, in part or wholly, by tenants of the Saul Zaentz Media Center; the names of the tenants are in parentheses:
Across Time and Space (Katherine Golden, Ashley James)
Berkeley in the 60s (Mark Kitchell)
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (Nancy Kates)
California and the American Dream (Jed Riffe)
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (Deborah Hoffman)
Daughter from Danang (Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco)
Days of Waiting (Steven Okazaki)
Forever Activists (Judy Montell)
Freedom on my Mind (Connie Field, Marilyn Mumford)
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It (Judy Ehrlich, Rick Tejeda-Flores)
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Stanley Nelson)
Orozco: Man of Fire (Laurie Coyle, Rick Tejada-Flores)
Promises (Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldsmith, Carlos Bolado)
Race Is the Place (Rick Tejada-Flores, Ray Telles)
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (Avon Kirkland)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (Bill Jersey)
Roam Sweet Home (Vivian Kleiman)
Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey (Abby Ginzberg)
Straight from the Heart (Frances Reid)
Tell the Truth and Run (Rick Goldsmith)