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San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking is the only film school in the country offering every student the valuable experience of crewing on a professional feature-length motion picture through its sister company, Fog City Pictures. As a part of the Digital Filmmaking Program's curriculum, students work directly under professional filmmakers. This is not an internship. It is an apprenticeship, where students are mentored and work side-by-side with industry professionals in key positions. Students working on Fog City Pictures feature films are actively involved in the professional filmmaking community and also get a valuable "credit" for their work on the film. Fog City Pictures and SFSDF submit these films to festivals, look for distribution outlets, and theatrical release.
In the past year, Fog City Pictures has produced two feature films with a talented array of award-winning actors and filmmakers. |
AROUND JUNE
Around June is a love story in the vein of a classic fairy tale set near the shipyards of San Francisco. June, played by Hollywood actress Samaire Armstrong (Dirty Sexy Money, Entourage, The O.C.), is a young woman trapped in a life caught between her crippled, abusive father (Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite, Real Genius) and mentally challenged uncle (Brad William Henke (Dexter, World Trade Center, Sherrybaby, Choke), whose adoration of her offers little solace. Through a poetic twist of fate, June meets a penniless immigrant, Juan Diego (played by newcomer Oscar Guerrero), whose love empowers her to finally break free and realize her dreams. Around June was written and directed by SFSDF instructor, James Savoca.
 AROUND JUNE writer/director James Savoca is interviewed by Michael Fox on SF360.
Please visit www.aroundjune.com for more information, behind the scenes interviews, photos and more.
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 MOONLIGHT SONATA
Moonlight Sonata has been completed and is ready for the world! Check out moonlightsonatamovie.com
Written and Directed by Celik Kayalar, PhD.
Director of "Film Acting Program" at SFSDF
Produced by Jeremiah Birnbaum
Director of Productions at SFSDF and "Fog City Pictures"
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 PRESQUE ISLE
Presque Isle is SFSDF’s first feature-length motion picture. Written and directed by Rob Nilsson, an award-winning director since the 1970s, Nilsson was the first American director to win both the Camera d'Or at Cannes (for his 1978 film Northern Lights) and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (for Heat and Sunlight, 1987). Presque Isle is set in Nilsson's childhood home of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He describes the story as "touching on themes of memory, human suffering, family reconciliation, and also a portrait of a land much neglected by American cinema."
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