San Francisco Media Archive relies on your support to continue to preserve important historic and cultural images. Financial donations and other support from individuals, businesses and the partnership of other organizations are needed to maintain SFMA’s collections of thousands of films, videos, and stills. Preserving and restoring this valuable collection for future generations requires intensive labor, and ever-changing technical equipment and materials.

Our ability to preserve and present these films and the histories they creatively express depends on your financial support. Donations from individuals, groups and organizations that value our mission of establishing a secure place for the archive will make sure that we not only safely store these significant cultural images, but that SFMA can continue to collect, preserve and present all these stunning, often one-of-a-kind films, tapes and photographs.These are truly inspiring, often evocative images that not only embody our histories, cultures and artistic expression over the last hundred or more years, but if saved and viewed can impact our present and future with the stories they tell.