Tom Luddy
biography
Tom has been the programme curator for the Documentary Film Institute, San Francisco State University since 2005. In 1974, Tom co-founded the Telluride Film Festival along with Bill Pence and James Card: he remains, with Bill Pence, the Director of the Telluride Film Festival. He has worked as an executive and film producer with American Zoetrope since 1979. As Zoetrope's Director of Special Projects he developed and supervised the 1981-82 worldwide revival of Abel Gance's 1927 masterpiece NAPOLEON. Luddy coordinated Zoetrope's sponsorship of Godfrey Reggio's KOYAANISQATSI (1983), and two collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard, EVERYMAN FOR HIMSELF (1980) and PASSION (1982), as well as the theatrical release of Fielder Cook's TOO FAR TO GO (1983). He was also instrumental in Zoetrope's support for Akira Kurosawa's KAGEMUSHA (1980), Co-Executive Produced by Francis Coppola and George Lucas. For many years, Tom Luddy was on the board of the San Francisco Film Festival. He also served for three years as a member of the New York Film Festival Selection Committee. American Jury Member at the Cannes Film Festival in l993. He served on the Juries of the Moscow Film Festival in 1979, and the Berlin Film Festival in l987 and on the Juries of The Cartegena, Mexico City, Morelia, Tehran, and San Paolo Film Festivals.
