Today, ATA’s Mission District storefront microcinema and galleries are primarily used to present work created by, and for historically marginalized communities. We provide a home for Periwinkle Queer Cinema, CineMas, Left Eye Cinema, Bay Area Black Independent Film Festival and Small Press Traffic. Art and media made by non-dominant communities, including queer, non-binary, Black, and brown people, continue to draw dedicated audiences and critical dialogue to ATA. We are the public screening room for faculty and students of five local universities. As the primary partner of the San Francisco Public Library’s 16mm film collection, we prepare and screen films for free in branch libraries and are now planning to acquire the collection as a teaching tool.
ATA is also the home of three other organizations: Other Cinema (OC), the long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance, along with founder Craig Baldwin’s filmmaking studio, film archive, and licensing enterprise. Right Window Gallery, a collective presenting monthly exhibitions in the second storefront window. 3rdi Films, using storage, studio, and screening space to present diverse images of South Asians through independent film.