The San Francisco Film Society is a nonprofit arts organization located in San Francisco, California that presents and exhibits year-round film programming and events in addition to the annual San Francisco International Film Festival.
It annually presents more than 300 films and reaches 15,000 students through its education program, while disbursing millions of dollars to filmmakers.
Graham Leggat was executive director of the Film Society from ...
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The San Francisco Film Society is a nonprofit arts organization located in San Francisco, California that presents and exhibits year-round film programming and events in addition to the annual San Francisco International Film Festival.
It annually presents more than 300 films and reaches 15,000 students through its education program, while disbursing millions of dollars to filmmakers.
Graham Leggat was executive director of the Film Society from October 2005 until his retirement because of ill-health in July 2011. Leggat died a month later. His successor, Bingham Ray, appointed in October 2011, died while attending the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012 after a tenure of only three months.
The San Francisco International Film Festival ("SFIFF") was founded in 1957 by San Francisco theater operator Irving "Bud" Levin, who had attended film festivals in Cannes and Venice and decided it was time for the United States to have its own. The San Francisco International Film Festival is...
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