Serge Bromberg is a grand impresario of cinema. Fortunate audiences around the world know him for his Retour de Flamme clip shows, during which he may burn a bit of nitrate film stock on stage and accompany some early animation on the piano while presenting his latest discoveries. Through Lobster Films, the company he founded in 1985, Bromberg restored the color to Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon which can be seen on a Lobster DVD compilation. Since the late 1980s, Bromberg has produced and hosted hundreds of hours of French television, he’s made a César-winning documentary, L’Enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot (codirected with Ruxandra Medrea) and, for fifteen years, he ran the festival of animation in Annecy.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about silent film as an art form and as a culturally valuable historical record.
