Frameline Fest

Founded in 1977, Frameline is a San Francisco-based nonprofit media arts organization dedicated to the development, exhibition, distribution, and preservation of LGBTQ+ cinema and independent queer media.

Frameline’s mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema. As a media arts nonprofit, Frameline’s programs do just that by connecting filmmakers and audiences in the Bay Area and around the world through the funding, distribution, restoration, and amplification of queer films.

Although Frameline is most well-known for producing the annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the organization prides itself on supporting the full life cycle of film, from artist development to exhibition and distribution to restoration.