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Films that Played at 2019 SFiFF that You Can Stream Now
SFiFF is pleased to compile this list for your at-home viewing pleasure. It includes films available to stream or rent on Amazon Prime and films available on Netflix. We hope you watch them in good health!
Moviemaker Magazine – 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2020, Presented by FilmFreeway
Santa Fe would be a gorgeous vacation spot even if there wasn’t a tremendous film festival. But for moviemakers and movie lovers, it’s especially worth a trip to experience the Albuquerque-Santa Fe corridor’s commitment to film. (Albuquerque was just named MovieMaker’s top city for moviemakers, and Santa Fe was No. 3 on the list of smaller cities and towns.) It features five art house theaters—and George R.R. Martin, a frequent attendee, owns the beloved Jean Cocteau Cinema. Santa Fe is also home to outstanding restaurants, art galleries, and all the outdoor fun you could ever want, against spectacular natural backdrops.
Albuquerque Journal – Big Pictures: Santa Fe International Film Festival strives to bring the best of cinema to the city different
Twelve years.
That’s the milestone the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival will reach on October 15-18, 2020. The indie film fest is an October staple in Santa Fe and has grown into a power player on the film festival circuit.
“We’re really excited with how nationally known the film festival has become,” says Jacques Paisner, SFIFF artistic director. “It’s one of the top international film festivals because we are coming together with films that are often the second or third screenings in North America.”
Santa Fe Reporter – Santa Fe Independent Film Festival Receives $15,000 NEA Grant
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival announced today that it had received a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help with its 2020 programming. It's one of 1,187 grants awarded in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Needless to say, festival officials are excited.
"We do receive New Mexico arts money that's grated partially from the NEA, but this is the first time we've received this grant from the NEA itself," says Liesette Paisner-Bailey...
Santa Fe Reporter – 25 Things We Love About Santa Fe Right Now
Indie Film Festival Keeps Growing
Though the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival's Executive Director Liesette Paisner-Bailey told SFR earlier this year that some of the fest's funding comes from grants that feature National Endowment for the Arts money, a recent $15,000 picked up from the NEA itself is no small matter. See, the SFiFF has grown explosively in the 11 years (2020 marks its 12th iteration) since it began in the old Warehouse 21 space within the pre-modern Railyard. Now, instead of a projector and folding chairs, the annual brouhaha takes over almost every theater in town to screen a combo of features, docs, shorts, art films and more.
Albuquerque Journal – Santa Fe Film Institute awarded $15K NEA grant
The Santa Fe Film Institute received a $15,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts on Wednesday.
The money will go to support the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival for its event on Oct. 14-18.
“We are honored that the National Endowment for the Arts has recognized Santa Fe Film Institute and the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival for our contribution to the arts. The Santa Fe Film Institute is extremely grateful for the support of the NEA for our project,” said SFiFF Executive Director Liesette Paisner Bailey. “We are excited that these funds will help us to continue to raise the artistic excellence of film by providing outstanding public programming, artist travel, filmmaker awards, and honoraria for artists in film who define our understanding of life in the 21st century.”
Moviemaker Magazine – Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker, 2020
Santa Fe
Could 2020 be the year that Tom Hanks replaces Walter White as the face of New Mexico’s entertainment industry? Hanks shot two high-profile projects in New Mexico this year: Bios, the aforementioned sci-fi film (see our entry on Albuquerque, above) and News of the World, a post-Civil War adventure, will both arrive in theaters for next Oscar season.
There are many reasons Santa Fe has been in our Top 5 for five years running: stunning natural beauty and light, a proactive film office quick to point out New Mexico tax incentives, and a mix of cowboy hospitality and high-culture institutions like the Santa Fe Opera and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. It honors its Native American history, celebrating locations like Taos Pueblo, a Native American settlement at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains established 1,000 years ago. The town of 83,000 has a sense of majestic peace, but locations that recall the violent shootouts of the Old West are only a short drive away.
KSFR – Santa Fe Independent Film Festival Premiere Place for Excellence
KSFR News Director Tom Trowbridge speaks with Executive Director Liesette Paisner Bailey.
Pasatiempo – Taking a bow: Filmmaker Alexandria Bombach
Alexandria Bombach is excited to be home in Santa Fe for most of the month of December. But, for now, it’s still November and the documentary filmmaker is preparing to head to Amsterdam to take part in a forum at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam as one of five recipients of a Chicken & Egg Pictures $50,000 unrestricted grant.
Pasatiempo – Art News February 2020
The Santa Fe Film Institute received $15,000 in support of the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. This is the first time the Santa Fe Film Institute has received NEA funding, which will be used for artist travel and honoraria, as well as filmmaker awards. The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival will produce its 12th film festival in 2020.