MUMBAI: The San Francisco Film Society will present the third annual ‘Cinema by the Bay‘ (CBTB) from 3 to 6 November at the San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema. The four-day festival will feature new work produced in or about the San Francisco Bay Area provide a compelling window into Bay Area film culture and practice at its best.

Cinema by the Bay celebrates the passion, innovation and diversity of Bay Area filmmaking, the intelligence and probing spirit of local directors and the incredible depth and breadth of America‘s film and media frontier.

The 2011 edition of Cinema by the Bay opens with Joshua Moore‘s heartfelt debut feature I Think It‘s Raining, includes screenings of dynamic new films by leading filmmakers and is capped with the latest celebration of Bay Area innovators, Essential SF.

Said festival programmers, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara, "With Cinema by the Bay entering its third year, we are starting to see the festival grow legs. The Film Society‘s hope for CBTB has always been for it to stand alongside all of our seasonal offerings as a full partner and that has certainly happened. We are excited and pleased to celebrate Bay Area film culture in this way."

Cinema by the Bay is an essential element of the Film Society‘s year-round programmes highlighting Bay Area film culture. SFFS has long celebrated films produced in the creative heart of the West, giving Golden Gate Awards to the best Bay Area documentaries and shorts, and five years ago inaugurating a dedicated Cinema by the Bay section in the San Francisco International Film Festival.