They also grumbled that he hogged the spotlight away from Director of Programming Linda Blackaby and needlessly flaunted his film knowledge. … It's a much more complicated and fluid world than it was even 10 years ago.”Īt the SFIFF press conference last month, some journalists were ruffled by Leggat's use of marketing-speak. You find yourself having to compete very vigorously for films.
And, of course, the traditional notion of filmgoing itself, which changed first with television and then with the VCR, and then the DVD and the Internet, has never been more volatile and mercurial.
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“You need to have a lot more skin in the game, financially. “It's a much more competitive, much more industrialized environment,” Leggat said on the phone last week, some four months after our initial meeting. By the end of her four-and-a-half-year tenure, the SFIFF had lost momentum and distinctiveness, crucial facets in an area where top-notch festivals and series are a monthly occurrence. His predecessor, Roxanne Messina Captor, had alienated festival-goers by pushing out popular staffers, meddling in the programming, butchering directors' names at screenings, and hiking ticket prices. When Leggat arrived last fall from New York, where he was director of communications at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the local film community greeted him with cautious optimism. I wouldn't call our conversation one-sided, but my plate's been empty a while. International Film Festival, has focused instead on spinning out a slate of ideas for raising his organization's profile. The new executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, which puts on the S.F. The sandwiches at Miller's East Coast West Delicatessen on Polk are perfectly tasty, but nearly an hour has passed and Graham Leggat has barely taken three bites.
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