Mid-Century Productions • Mid-Century Productions programs "mini film festivals" that have screened rarely seen international films from cinema's most explosive three decades—the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle has extolled Mid-Century's screenings of French film noir over the past six years—calling its annual festival, THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT "a total game changer in terms of how noir, both French and American, is perceived."
THE FILM NOIR FOUNDATION• Film Preservation
NOIR CITY• San Francisco NOIR CITY Film Festival
With its mission to rescue and restore classic noir films, the Film Noir Foundation annually presents NOIR CITY, one of the Bay Area's most popular film festivals.NOIR CITYprovides access to its annual festival program, ticketing, press reviews, archived coverage of past festivals, as well as an online store.
FilmNoirFoundation.org provides a resource for noir film aficionados,film and festival newsincoporating the FNF's live Twitter feed, monthly tv listings,online donation, and an expanding collection of exclusive video interviews in itsVideo Archives areastreamed from itsYouTube channel.
The site provides essential outreach for fundraising the Foundation's successful preservation efforts, integrating PayPal andAWebermailing list integration, and supporting the Foundation's subscriber-based quarterly NOIR CITY Magazine.
HAFIZ KARMALI• International Theatre Director. With extensive photo and video imagery, the site presents the colorful and creative work of Hafiz Karmali, known for his highly stylized form of dance-theatre inspired by art history and devotional in nature.
VER PLANCK CONSULTING• Historic Preservation Consulting provides a full range of architectural history and preservation consulting services in the San Francisco Bay Area.
FRIENDS OF 1800• Architectural Preservation Advocacy
The Friends of 1800 has focused on the preservation of significant historical buildings, landmarks and the architectural heritage of San Francisco. Their website documents the group's advocacy work beginning in 1997 to block the demolition of the Fallon Building, since incorporated into the SF LGBT Center. The site provides a complete list of SF Landmarks and Historic Districts, as well as updated news on San Francisco's moviehouses.
TRANSATLANTIC HABIT• Translation services, published and unpublished literary fiction by Marc Svetov and Petra Schreyer in German and English, including writings on film noir.
THE JA YELLOW PAGES • A searchable community directory of nonprofit organizations serving the Japanese-American communities throughout North America, including post-Fukushima fundraising efforts. The site implements Mosets Tree's unrivaled directory component software in Joomla CMS.
CALIFORNIA JAPANTOWNS• Education / Preservation / Outreach
California Japantowns represents the first statewide project to document historic resources from 43 pre-World War II Japantowns as well as existing Japanese American communities. Sponsored by the California Japanese American Community Leadership Council, the site includes Preserving California Japantowns' extensivesearchable databaseof more than 3,000 locations with Google map integration.
Clement TOURS & Travel• Travel Service
Eddie Muller• Writer and Cultural Archeologist
Tim Kelley Consulting• Historical Research, Consulant
Lerner + Associates Architects• Architecture
