Mission Statement


The Petaluma Film Alliance is a strategic partnership between Santa Rosa Junior College, community businesses, and private individuals dedicated to creating unique community-based learning environments to discuss and analyze significant classic and modern cinema.


PFA produces two major programs:

  1. 1.a 15-week film series of classic, foreign, & independent films each fall and spring

  2. 2.an annual film festival featuring the best new foreign and independent cinema where residents of the North Bay can learn about films & filmmaking directly from visiting filmmakers.

The Petaluma Cinema Series showcases classic, foreign, and independent films on Wednesday nights in the new Carole L. Ellis Auditorium at the Petaluma Campus of Santa Rosa Junior College.


Where

  1. •Carole L. Ellis Auditorium

  Petaluma Campus, SRJC

  680 Sonoma Mountain Parkway


When

  1. •Wednesday nights

  2. •Pre-film lecture: 6PM

  3. •Film Screening: 7PM

  4. •Post-Screening Discussion until 10PM


Pre-film lectures are designed to enhance the audiences’ appreciation and understanding of the film by examining the film’s production history, learning about the players that brought the picture together, and examining the film techniques that will be showcased in the feature.

Admission

  1. •General........................................$5.00

  2. •Seniors & PFA Members.............$4.00

  3. •Individual Series Pass...............$40.00

  4. •Students with ASP card................Free


The box office is open from 5:30-7:15pm on Wednesday nights. 

For additional information email info@petalumafilmfest.org

Petaluma Cinema Series