![]() She's got fantastic energy, bubbling over with ideas."Īccording to festival board member Barbara Tamber, who asked Messina Captor to apply for the position, "we were looking for someone we thought would be a good leader, had a lot of good ideas and charisma and could speak in public. "We've just met recently," Scarlet says, "but I must say I like her enormously. 'FANTASTIC ENERGY'ĭuring the next five months, Scarlet will work with Messina Captor to produce the festival's 44th annual showcase. ![]() Her successor, Amy Leissner, held the job four years and resigned in August. Barbara Stone resigned in 1996 after a rancorous eight months in which she was pressured by a former board member to file extensive financial reports at the same time she was trying to mount a festival. In the past five years, two executive directors have come and gone from the festival. I think we have to embrace the public and the film community in a broader way." We could have a lab where filmmakers come and shoot their films and put it on the Internet and cut it on the Apple Pro. We've got this great space out here at the Presidio. "I think we also have to embrace the whole digital world, which was created right here in San Francisco. Messina Captor wants to increase the number of salons and panels. At the other end there's a whole segment of the public that maybe isn't coming to the festival because they think it hasn't anything to offer them." "From what I've learned, there are people who feel it's a purist festival with films you wouldn't see anywhere else. ![]() "I think we can balance the two," Messina Captor says. Should they follow the Scarlet model of a high-minded festival with varied international programming - or forge new alliances with Hollywood, add more mainstream movies to the mix and resurrect the glamour and pizzazz that was offered in pre-Scarlet years? With the departure of Scarlet, a formidable and sometimes controversial figure who worked hard to make the festival an important showcase for international cinema, Messina Captor and the film society face a mandate for change. ![]()
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