San Francisco Cinematheque

San Francisco Cinematheque
Predecessor	Canyon Cinema
Formation	1961; 63 years ago
Type	501(c)(3)
Tax ID no.	94-2361837
Legal status	Nonprofit organization
Location	San Francisco, California, United States;
Director	Steve Polta
Website	www.sfcinematheque.org

San Francisco Cinematheque is a San Francisco-based film society for artist-made cinema. It was created in 1961 by a group of filmmakers, including Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand. This screening program grew into Canyon Cinema before being split off into a sister organization, originally named the Foundation for Art in Cinema, during the 1970s.

San Francisco Cinematheque is one of the Bay Area's longest-running outlets for exhibiting experimental film.^[2] It produces the annual film festival Crossroads.

^ "San Francisco Cinematheque". Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
^ Anker, Steve; Geritz, Kathy; Seid, Steve, eds. (2010). Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24911-0.

[1] "San Francisco Cinematheque". Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved August 28, 2022.

[radical-light-2] Anker, Steve; Geritz, Kathy; Seid, Steve, eds. (2010). Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24911-0.

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