Noah Cowan
Noah Cowan
Noah Cowan is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society. Since March 2014, he has overseen the Film Society’s programs in exhibition, education and filmmaker services. Before joining the Film Society, Cowan was the Artistic Director of TIFF Bell Lightbox...
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The Festival has been a long time supporter of her extraordinary career and she has been a wonderful partner for us in building this Festival and organization.
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It takes artists awhile both to digest current events and get films made. This lag of four years makes sense, if one was going to predict accurately when we would start seeing these kinds of films.
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