The Three-Minute Picture Show

04/17/2019

Vintage 3MPS spotted at the Castro Theater Childrens Film Festival! We hope all our 3 Minute friends are scheming and dreaming and making! Thanks for all the good times!

07/10/2012

Time to submit your shorts for SFUSFF!...

The San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival celebrates the underground, overlooked, avant-garde, and ultra outrageous films of the Bay Area. Anything goes… so don’t hold back! Submit now!

07/04/2012

Take a minute to vote for 2010 Twinkling To-Do winner Alex Itkis...
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You were made to travel.

06/12/2012

Check out this new music video that 3MPS first place winners Alona Davis and Dave Pursell made for The Great Fires: it's thoroughly Sin-ematic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eGuB7iV69M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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04/23/2012

No time to make a three-minute film? The 10 second film festival is for you!
http://www.soapfactory.org/exhibit.php?content_id=311

The Soap Factory’s Ten Second Film Festival celebrates innovative and spontaneous filmmaking. Voted Best Festival in 2011 by City Pages, The Ten Second Film Festival is a celebration of micro-cinema and the everyman—a chance for anyone to be a cinematic god, if only for 10 seconds. This year The T...

03/23/2012

Great FREE event tonight for filmmakers...

How do you legally use music and footage from other sources? Learn the ins and outs of music and footage licensing from this panel of experts: Sascha Ciezata, Filmmaker Sasha has made a name for himself with his quirky lo-fi iPhone animations. In 2010 he made a short film using audio of Davi...

10/13/2011

So much going on this week! Richard Serra at SFMOMA tonight, the Casual Wear Gala on Saturday and this screening at ATA tomorrow night...

In celebration of Gerge Kuchar's life and work, ATA and Mike Kuchar present an evening of video diaries. George Kuchar was pe

08/28/2011

Thank you San Francisco for a great day at the Victoria Theatre! We'll show our 2011 films again during open studios for all of you film fans and filmmakers who were out of town (ie: burning man)! Photos coming soon!

08/26/2011

We predict Portland's Bizarro World red carpet experience for tomorrow! Fake Fur Coats, glam wool scarves and bedazzled ski jackets. Gotta love the San Francisco summer! See you on the red carpet at 3 pm for our family-friendly Twinkling To-Do and at 7 pm for our Black-Tie Gala & Film Screening!

We hope you all were as inspired as we were by Princess Beatrice’s wedding hat! We cannot wait to dress up and celebrate our 10th year of Black-Tie Galas and 2nd year in Portland and 2nd year of Twinkling To-Dos! We know you can’t either, 3-minute film fans, and here are all the details:

08/26/2011

08/23/2011

Huge thanks to Spielwerk Toys and Stumptown Roasters for supporting our Portland screening. San Francisco: get ready to win fabulous prizes from Rayko, BiRite, Fayes Video and more at our Black-Tie Gala! See you on Saturday!

We hope you all were as inspired as we were by Princess Beatrice’s wedding hat! We cannot wait to dress up and celebrate our 10th year of Black-Tie Galas and 2nd year in Portland and 2nd year of Twinkling To-Dos! We know you can’t either, 3-minute film fans, and here are all the details:

08/22/2011

Thank you for rocking our red carpet in the 95 degree heat, Portland! And to our volunteers and MC Bill for all your hard work! See on Saturday, San Francisco!