About SFSFF

The Advisory Board

KEVIN BROWNLOW
Photoplay Productions

MELISSA CHITTICK
Co-Founder, San Francisco Silent Film Festival

MARIO P. DIAZ
Regional Vice President, Wells Fargo Foundation

PETER N. FOWLER, Esq.
Senior Counsel, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

BRUCE GOLDSTEIN
Film Forum, Rialto Pictures

SYDNEY GOLDSTEIN
Executive Director, City Arts and Lectures

STEPHEN GONG
Executive Director, Center for Asian American Media

JERE GULDIN
Archivist, UCLA Film Archive

RANDY HABERKAMP
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

DENNIS JAMES
Musician, Silent Film Concerts

EDITH KRAMER
Curator Emeritus, Pacific Film Archive

JOE LINDNER
Archivist, Academy Film Archive

GUY MADDIN
Film Director

LEONARD MALTIN
Film Critic, Entertainment Tonight

MIKE MASHON
Head, Moving Image Section, Library of Congress

RUSSELL MERRITT
Author and Film Historian

GARY MEYER
Co-Director, Telluride Film Festival

RICHARD J. MEYER
Board President Emeritus, Author

STEPHEN SALMONS
Co-Founder, San Francisco Silent Film Festival

DAVID SHEPARD
Director, Film Preservation Associates

SCOTT SIMMON, Ph.D.
Professor, University of California, Davis

DAVID SMITH
Business Consultant

DAN STREIBLE
Director, NYU Orphan Film Project

PAOLO CHERCHI USAI
Director, Haghefilm Foundation

TODD WIENER
Archivist, UCLA Film Archive

CHARLES WOLFE, Ph.D.
Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

TERRY ZWIGOFF
Film Director