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
Anthony Wall (film-maker) a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures in 20th and 21st centuries, from Slim Gaillard to Amy Winehouse, from Edward Said to Eric Hobsbawm and from Jean Genet to V S Naipaul. Anthony Wall grew up in Hackney, East London. He attended a Catholic grammar school before studying English at King's College, Cambridge. Wall has personally been awarded three Bafta awards, three Royal Television Society awards, an Emmy, the Prix Italia, and the Special Medallion of the Telluride Film Festival. Anthony Wall (film-maker) Anthony Wall is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose lifelong contribution to cinema has been honoured