Grahamleggat Videos

From April 23 to May 7, the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival returns with more than 100 unique programs of the finest independent, documentary and international cinema, playing host to more than 80,000 film-lovers, filmmakers, and industry professionals. The Festival will throw sensational parties such as the Midnight Awards with Evan Rachel Wood and Elijah Wood, honor film icons including Robert Redford and Francis Ford Coppola, and celebrate Bay Area film culture by opening with Peter and Benjamin Bratt s La Mission followed by a lavish party at Bruno s and El Capitan Theatre. On May 5, the genre-bending pop band Dengue Fever will perform the world premiere of their original score for the classic silent film The Lost World at the historic Castro Theatre. The Festival will close with Alexis Dos Santos s striking film Unmade Beds, a tale of two solitary expats crossing paths in London s cosmopolitan art-rock scene. For tickets and showtimes, visit sffs.org or call the box office at 925-866-9559.

At the opening press conference to the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival, Graham Leggat talked about International Online. Working with Jaman.com, 5-10 full feature films will be available for select viewing.

This one is for the film geeks. The organizers of the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival are courting bloggers and videobloggers this year to help spread the love. We like love, so here we are. GETV Investigative Film Geek Violet Blue speaks with Graham Leggat, head of the SF Film Society which puts on the festival. He talks a bit about bloggers as media, couch surfing filmmakers, some favorite controversial films and militant lesbian kayakers of Afghanistan. Episode links: sffs, sf360, sfiff, tom cruise, couch surfing downoad link citizenmedia, films, getv, grahamleggat, sffs, sfiff, violetblue