The mission of the SAFILM - San Antonio Film Festival is to serve as an accessible and inclusive platform for artists in the category of cinema and provide cinematic culture to a diverse audience. The San Antonio Film Festival showcases films from around the world while nurturing, fostering, and developing filmmakers of all ages.

SAFILM - San Antonio Film Festival  has been sought-after as a respected forum by independent filmmakers. SAFILM has gained international prestige as an important festival because it has been a springboard for the careers of low budget filmmakers. Year after year, we continually screen short and feature length films. There are numerous filmmaker success stories in the history of SAFILM. Films and filmmakers that screened at SAFILM graduated to recognition at the Oscars and the Sundance Film Festival. In 1995 we screened Academy Award winner Todd Phillips’ (director of the Joker) first film as well as his second film in 1999. We are working to bring him to our festival next year to present him with SAFILM’s first-ever outstanding Alumni award.