As a creative laboratory, Palo Alto Int'l Film Festival's mission is to foster innovation and educate the community about those ideas that most inspire its members. John Lasseter of Pixar expressed that "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires art." PAIFF strives to be a conduit for increased innovation in art, technology and film. As movies migrate to digital, the future of cinema will depend on the cutting edge tools that continue to be conceived and developed in the Bay Area. These too …

Filmmakers, if you are interested in learning more about digital cinema techniques (at all stages of production) with hands-on opportunities to create web content and viral videos, promotional spots and short films? Interested in working on a feature film? Or just want to support other filmmakers. Perhaps you have experience and expertise in certain areas, from lighting to composition, sound topost production or anything in between and would be willing to help teach others? Do you have any ideas …

Zoom In Videomakers is a collaborative group of volunteer videographers who are jazzed about local community access to the media.  Our venue sponsor is the Midpeninsula Community Media Center in Palo Alto, California. They cablecast five (5) local channels on Comcast and U-verse and stream live from their website. The Media Center is actively looking for local video content to program on their channels and streams.  One of this group's goals is to create just such local content about local …

The SJSFF is getting ready to launch it's fourth year and after the amazing success at Santana Row in 2011, we are initiating the SJSFF Project where YOU can be part of the filmmaking experience and walk the Red Carpet at the next festival. Launched by SJ filmmakers to support local filmmaking, together we will help craft new short films that will introduce the world class films that will be screened as part of the SJSFF. Filmmakers, film lovers and those who want to get involved in the filmmaki …

Rather than focusing on one specific profession, we want to mingle with varieties of visual creators; graphic designers, interior designers, product designers, architects, videographers, photographers, filmmakers and more. Visual creators should have something in common and expand their expertise in different directions, but we all probably want to get inspired by other visual creators. The main activity of this group is social mixers, which help members meet new visual creators, get inspiration …

We are the local group for ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics). Our mission is to promote the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Our purpose is to foster a membership community whose core values help them to catalyze the innovation and application of computer graphics and interactive techniques. We meet roughly every month, usually on the third Thursday. Our local group has been …

This Meetup group is about helping Image Makers - primarily photographers and videographers - connect and collaborate with each other. All too often, projects and shoots are pushed off because they're difficult to handle solo; this Collective hopes to help alleviate that problem. Join up, meet other photographers and videographers, find assistants, assist on projects yourself, and further our skills as a community. Combine forces, and get out and create great things! Click here for a more detail …

KCAT TV 15 is the community television serving Los Gatos and Monte Sereno. I'm Tom Bryan, Executive Director The staff at KCAT TV 15 was looking at starting a production meetup group when it was suggested that we become the organizer for Video University (Video University was slated to be shut down in a few days) Since the original goals of Video University were in line with our goals at KCAT TV 15 we've jumped in. KCAT TV 15 does have an agenda - we're after original content for our station. In …