![]() One of Messina Captor's first acts was to hire the Los Angeles public relations firm Rogers & Cowan. Many ardent festivalgoers from years past have stopped going, complaining that the standards have dropped since the departure of former artistic director Peter Scarlet in 2001. At the most recent festival, attendance spiked to 77,000. "She was brought in to get stars to show up, to bring more glitz to the festival, but the last couple of years didn't seem particularly star-packed," said one informed source.įestival attendance also dropped from 94,500 in 2003 to 73,000 last year. Roxanne messina captor tv#Interviewing for the job, her first running a film festival, Messina Captor stressed her experience as TV producer, director of the feature "A Clean Kill" and dancer in the movies "Xanadu" and "One From the Heart." The latter was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, whom Messina Captor referred to at the festival dinner as "my mentor," although she was unable to get him to any recent festival events. She was hired in 2001 on the strength of her Hollywood connections. One board member described her as "very self-serving and not warm to people." But Blum praised Messina Captor for expanding the festival's year-round programming and for initiating the State of the Cinema address delivered most recently by "The Incredibles" director Brad Bird. Messina Captor is a controversial figure within the San Francisco film community, quietly derided for her malapropisms - after last year's festival she said she was going to Hawaii to "decompose" - and for mispronouncing the names of foreign films. ![]() I'm completely surprised."īut fellow board member Fred Levin said, "It was not a surprise to me at all," indicating a schism within the 17-member board. Reached at the Cannes Film Festival late Thursday night, businessman and inventor Maurice Kanbar, a major contributor the San Francisco festival who this year endowed a screenwriting award in his name, said, "I didn't know anything about it. ![]() Not all board members even knew that Messina Captor was leaving. ![]()
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