LEGGAT MOVES WEST
Congratulations to friend and Filmmaker columnist Graham Leggat (pictured above with his doppleganger, Moby), who announced yesterday that he’s leaving his post as director of communications at the Film Society of Lincoln Center to take on the executive director job at the San Francisco Film Society. The organization runs the San Francisco Film Festival, among many other programs. I first met Graham in 2000, when I, a very unqualified journalist, arrived in New York to cover the New York Film Festival for the Creative Planet website. Graham and I hit it off, and a day later I was sitting in the Essex House interviewing Catherine Deneuve and Bjork for Dancer in the Dark. When I finally left L.A. and moved back home to the city, he was one of the first people I called for some guidance, and we’ve since become good friends. He’ll be greatly missed here in New York — let’s hope that he, his wife Lily, and his little boy Willie come back from time to time to say hi.
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josee
