Part of a series of mini profiles on the movers & shakers that make the Berlinale one of the most important events in the international film calendar: the programmers, curators, industry promoters & visitors, from rookies to veterans. Name & role: Noah Cowan, Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society since March 2014. He joined SFFS after five years at the helm of TIFF Bell Lightbox, the landmark cinema museum space in Toronto.
This is my ...th Berlinale.
No idea. Maybe 15th?
What’s your focus at Berlinale 2015?
Last-minute films for the San Francisco International Film Festival. And spreading the word about our future plans linking the film and tech worlds - and the importance of San Francisco as a film financing and production center. No-one knows the Film Society is the largest not-profit funder of feature films in America!
Wildest party I expect to go to at Berlinale 2015:
