Home Movie Day Bay Area

Mission

Home Movie Day Bay Area is a group of volunteer moving image archivists based in the Bay Area who are dedicated to the celebration and preservation of home movies. They organize screenings throughout the year with an open invitation to bring in and share with the community your home movie memories. In the past, they’ve exhibited at Pacific Film Archive; Oakland Museum of California; Berkeley Public Library; Oakland Asian Cultural Center; Temescal Arts Center; Internet Archive; Mills College; San Francisco Public Library; and Artists’ Television Access (ATA). With trained moving image archivists volunteering to inspect and project each home movie, we’ve been able to accommodate 16mm film, regular 8mm film, super 8mm film, 9.5mm film, and VHS cassette tapes. We take special care to inspect your films and videos before projection and can offer conservation advice.

Featured Fun

Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at venues worldwide. These events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community. It’s a chance to discover why these films are important and to learn how best to care for them. For more information about Home Movie Day and how to preserve your home movies, please visit the Center for Home Movies.

In the past, they’ve exhibited at Pacific Film Archive; Oakland Museum of California; Berkeley Public Library; Oakland Asian Cultural Center; Temescal Arts Center; Internet Archive; Mills College; San Francisco Public Library; and Artists’ Television Access (ATA). With trained moving image archivists volunteering to inspect and project each home movie, we’ve been able to accommodate 16mm film, regular 8mm film, super 8mm film, 9.5mm film, and VHS cassette tapes.

Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 5:00PM – (Virtual) Home Movie Screening with Home Movie Day Bay Area

Join us for a virtual version of Home Movie Day with selections of San Francisco home movies from local archives and the personal collections of HMD organizers. This year’s program will include the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, 1950s and 1960s San Francisco, Super 8 footage of the Mission District and various events in San Francisco in the 1970s, Folsom Street Fair in the 1990s, and more! We’ll also have opportunities for Q&A, along with presentations on how to care for your home movie collections on film and video from Antonella Bonfanti of BAMPFA and Jackie Jay of Farallon Archival Consulting.

This event is free and no pre-registration is required. You do not need a Twitch account to view and Stream it on Twitch.

Questions from the Q&A will come via email and from the Twitch chat. In order to participate in the Twitch chat, you’ll need a Twitch account. If you want to create a login, you can click the purple Sign Up button at the top right-hand corner of the Twitch homepage. Signing up requires an email address, but does not require any sort of payment information. If you do not want to create a Twitch account, you can send questions for the Q&A to hmdbayarea(at)gmail.com.