Search for pictures and Festival posters from the past 50 years of the San Francisco International. Right now you can search for Festival photos from 1990 to 2007. The gallery will be updated frequently, so check back for new additions.
Daniel Talbot, editor of Film: An Anthology , was the first recipient of the Mel Novikoff Award in 1988. Later he cofounded New Yorker Films, a distribution company that introduced many foreign language films to North American audiences. The Mel Novikoff Award, named after the pioneering San Francisco exhibitor, is given to an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the filmgoing public’s knowledge and appreciation of world cinema.