You can count the 25th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival a success. Ticket revenue increased by six percent from last year.
Due to the popularity of the “Jews and The Hollywood Blacklist” program, the festival will continue to show works by blacklisted Jewish screenwriters. Shows are scheduled for every month through the end of 2005 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts screening room in San Francisco.
Oct. 26 will feature a screening of Abraham Polonsky’s “Romance Of A Horsethief” (scripted by Polonsky and David Opatoshu) and Frank Tuttle’s noir “This Gun For Hire” (scripted by Albert Maltz). On Nov. 30 the offerings are Zoltan Korda’s “Sahara” (scripted by Korda and John Howard Lawson) and Edgar G. Ulmer’s “The Naked Dawn” (scripted by Julian Zimet).
This year marked the festival’s second year under Executive Director Peter L. Stein and its third under Program Director Nancy Fishman.
“On our silver anniversary, we’ve seen a remarkable outpouring of support from across the spectrum of our audiences, Jewish and non-Jewish alike,” said Stein.