Cancer Support Community Film Festival & Charity Gala

The Cancer Support Community of the San Francisco Bay Area’s first-ever film festival charity gala will be an elegant and inspiring evening of courage, resilience, and hope, broadcast live from the Palm Event Center in Pleasanton, California. Please submit your film about cancer for a chance to be featured in our festival. We are looking for short films under 10 minutes, and the top 3 films chosen by our panel of industry professionals will be screened as a part of our charity event. During the show, viewers will vote for their favorite film, bid on unique auction items, and learn about the critical, life-changing services that Cancer Support Community offers for free to anyone affected by cancer. Three short films will be selected as finalists by our elite judging panel including Josh Cooley (Academy Award winning animator, writer, and director), Lyn Sisson-Talbert (producer of Jingle Jangle), Perri Peltz (journalist and documentary filmmaker, director and co-producer of Axios on HBO), Eric Ellenbogen (CEO of WildBrain and previously a senior exec with NBCUniversal, DreamWorks and Marvel), and Jeffrey Friedman (Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker). Finalists will be announced before the show and screened at the event for the live audience and as part of our event online broadcast.