The Sacramento Film and Music Festival is now open for submissions for the 2012 event. The Film Festival is returning to it's original format of a Summer event. Click ENTRY for more information about sending us your project.

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival took place August 17th-21st at the Historic Crest Theatre at 1013 Kst. Click SCHEDULE for more information about our Summer program.

2011 Film Awards

Narrative Feature: Jury - Face to Face
Narrative Feature: Audience - Face to Face
Documentary Feature: Jury - Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football
Documentary Feature: Audience - (Tie) Hollywood to Dollywood/Beautiful Youth
Narrative Short: Jury - Boffin & Boffin
Narrative Short: Audience - Proposal
Student Film: Jury - (Tie) Death of the Cool/Gu yeo-rum-eui ba da
Student Film: Audience - The Haymaker
Music Video: Jury - Gentlemen in Squalor
Music Video: Audience - Lizard Wash
Director's Choice - Hollywood to Dollywood
Director's Choice - Jimmy Murakami - Non Alien
Emerging Filmmaker - Spencer Reed

10x10 Filmmaker Challenge

Best Use of Image - 11:38 (Clockface)
Best Use of Paint - Obstinate Orange (Obstinate Orange)
Best Use of Paint Name - French Fried (Cote d'Azur)
Best Interpretation of Theme - French Fried
Best Film: Jury - (Tie) French Fried/Yeller
Best Film: Audience - Envy
Director's Choice - Daniel's Last Day of Earth
Emerging Filmmaker - Noah Damiani
Female in a Supporting Role - Yinique Myo-Flores
Male in a Supporting Role - Matthew Donaldson
Female in a Leading Role - Lucinda Chrisman
Male in a Leading Role - Jason Bortz

Summer 2011 Trailers:

Jimmy Murakami - Non Alien - Opening Night Film - 8:00pm - Wednesday, August 17th

Face to Face - 7:00pm - Friday, August 19th

The Corridor - 11:00pm - Friday, August 19th

Hollywood to Dollywood - 8:00pm - Saturday, August 20th

Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football - 3:00pm - Sunday, August 21st

Going back to our roots as a more intimate Festival was a great decision - after steady growth over 11 years, including 3 years as a 10-day event, we split into 2 seasonal programs and just completed our first 3-day WinterFEST. The differences were remarkable the energy level remained consistently high and we didn't exhaust our volunteers. Our filmmakers came in from around the state and across the country and most of them stayed for the entire weekend, hanging out and getting to know each other which is such a big part of the festival experience. We had lost some of that dynamic in the longer events and we're very glad to have re-engineered the logistics.

We thank those filmmakers who submitted films, we congratulate those whose films were accepted, we are grateful to those who spent all or part of their weekend with us, either in the audience or in support of films or the Festival, and we are proud to be associated with such generous and talented people.

We're looking forward to doing it all over again at our SummerFEST August 17-21. Until then, the final act of WinterFEST 2011 is to share with you our latest group winning films:

SF&MF WinterFEST Awards 2011

AUDIENCE AWARDS
Student Film: HEAL
Narrative Short: Sharfik
Music Video: Judas: The Shimmies
Documentary (less than 1 hour): My Brother Mike
Documentary (1 hour or more): Atomic Mom
Narrative Feature: Boy Wonder

JURY AWARDS
Student Film: She's a Fox
Narrative Short: Caged Dreams
Music Video: Judas: The Shimmies
Documentary (less than 1 hour): Seeds of Hope
Documentary (1 hour or more): Sowing the Seeds of Justice
Narrative Feature: TIE: Boy Wonder & Febbre da Fieno
"Pitch Sacramento" Competition: The Pitch

DVD Store

2006 10X10 Filmmaker Challenge - $12.00

2006 Sac Music Seen - $12.00

2006 Creative Interpretations - $12.00

2005 Sac Music Seen - $12.00

2004 Sac Music Seen - $12.00

Sac Music Seen Collection - All three years of the Sac Music Seen on DVD - $25.00

2006 DVD Collection - All three interactive event of the 2006 event (10X10, Sac Music Seen, Creative Interpretations) - $25.00

e-mail: questions@sactofilmfest.com