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When you make a gift to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, you are supporting the organization's mission to present and preserve the art of silent cinema. Your support helps SFSFF to breathe life into these films, to highlight their relevance for modern audiences by showcasing importatnt titles from the era, often in restored or preserved prints, with live musical accompaniment by some of the finest practitioners of putting music to film. Each presentation exemplifies the extraordinary quality Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow calls "live cinema," and furthers important preservation and restoration efforts around the world.

Help us bring the Hitchcock 9 to San Francisco!
Join the HITCHCOCK CIRCLE
Support this amazing three-day, nine-film event with a contribution of $250 or more and join us at the invitation-only Opening Night Champagne Reception. Hitchcock Circle contributors will also receive acknowledgement in the event slideshow and in the collectible program book.
Join the Circle here ► and enter "Hitchcock" when prompted to designate your honoree on a subsequent page.

Contributions to the SFSFF are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. If you would like to make a donation and receive membership benefits, please contact us to discuss membership levels and tax-deductibility.
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Thank you for your support!

Questions? Please contact Lucia Pier at 415-777-4908 x1 or lucia@silentfilm.org
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DONATION INFORMATION

Thank you for considering a gift to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. It is only through the support of patrons of the arts that we are able to continue the work of putting on our extraordinary "live cinema" events in the San Francisco Bay Area and furthering silent film preservation and restoration efforts around the world.

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Contributions to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, a California nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, are tax deductivble to the extent allowed by law.

Donations are different from membership and don't confer membership benefits. Donations can be added to the specified price of a membership level. If you would like to do this, or want more information about becoming a member, click here ►

Once your donation has been received, we will send a letter to you acknowledging and clarifying your tax deductible contribution. If you are making a Tribute Donation, we will also send a separate letter notifying your honoree of the tribute.

Tribute Donation Make a donation in honor of or in memory of someone special to you. Tribute donations do not confer any membership benefits and are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. To make a Tribute Donation, write the honoree's name when you are prompted to do so.

Employer Matching Many employers have matching gift programs where they will add to your donation. Make your money go further! Companies with matching gift programs include Apple, Google, Levi Strauss & Co., Microsoft, Bank of America, Chevron, Franklin Templeton Investments, Salesforce.com Foundation, Charles Schwab, and Merck. Please ask your employer if matching gifts are available.

Stock Transfers and Bequests Be tax savvy and support the SF Silent Film Festival! With a gift of appreciated securities you qualify for a tax deduction based on the fair market value of the stock. A bequest is not subject to federal, state, or local inheritance taxes. Contact Stacey Wisnia at 415-777-4908 x2 or stacey@silentfilm.org for assistance.

For assistance with membership and donations, please call Lucia Pier at 415-777-4908 x1 or email lucia@silentfilm.org