San Francisco International Film Festival 59th San Francisco International Film Festival took place from April 21 to May 5, 2016 at venues throughout the Bay Area. Founded in 1957 by film exhibitor Irving "Bud" Levin, the SFIFF began as a philanthropic effort to secure San Francisco's place in the international arts scene as well as expose locals to cinema as an art form. The Festival played a major role in introducing foreign films to American audiences. Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" and Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" were among the films that screened at the first festival. One obstacle in the early years was the lack
Paul Kelly (film maker) completed a six-year documentary about Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart front man Lawrence entitled "Lawrence Of Belgravia" which premiered at the 2011 London Film Festival. Kelly and Saint Etienne collaborated again on "How We Used to Live" (2014), which has been described as "a cherishable, woozy-hazy trawl of London from postwar days to yuppiedom". Paul Kelly (film maker) Paul Kelly (born 23 July 1962 Farnborough, Hampshire) is an English film director, musician, photographer and designer. The son of an RAF fighter pilot - he took up flying aged fourteen, making his first solo flight on his seventeenth birthday. However, a