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The Jewish Film Institute's annual WinterFest features the best in new Jewish film and media for diverse Bay Area audiences. Over the course of a lively and stimulating weekend in San Francisco, WinterFest showcases films and new media works that would otherwise be unavailable for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and for audiences who are unable to attend our summer programs.
Utilizing our film streaming archive JFI On Demand, we’re sending you thematic double features paired with a short film from our Monthly Online Short series each week. In this way, we will support the artists who provide such meaningful work for us year after year. We’ll be adding exclusive bonus material, including new filmmaker intros, behind the scenes material, and Q&A’s from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and WinterFest. JFI has always been more than a Festival. Now is the time to dive into our online resources to enjoy your own living room Festivals!
Now entering its fifth edition, WinterFest has showcased both independent and Hollywood films for JFI audiences, complete with guests in attendance, music performances, and more. Browse WinterFest selections here, some of which are now available to watch online via JFI On Demand.
An illustrious group of creators and leaders take the temperature on where women stand in Hollywood, weighing in on where we’ve come from, where opportunities lie, and what needs to happen to maintain momentum. Panelists include Producer Stephanie Allain Bray (The 2020 Oscars, Juanita, Hustle & Flow, Dear White People), Screenwriter-Director-Novelist Susanna Fogel (The Spy Who Dumped Me, BookSmart, Utopia, Life Partners), Writer-Producer Elisabeth Holm (Jenny Slate Stage Fright, Obvious Child, Landline), Kirsten Schaffer (Executive Director, Women in Film), Anne Lai (Executive Director, SFFILM), and Susan Nimoy, one of the “Original Six,” [pictured] a group of women directors who banded together in 1979 to challenge the male-run Hollywood machine.
Director Jennifer Fox chronicles her story of childhood abuse at the hands of a high-school coach in this powerful, devastating film.
THE HUNTING GROUND weaves in two courageous survivors who are shining a spotlight on the alarming trend of universities and colleges to downplay and deny sexual assaults on their campuses. As they strike back using an innovative legal strategy, they gain momentum to inspire justice in the process.