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Irving Saraf, Oscar-winning Glen Park filmmaker, dies

January 14, 2013 by Elizabeth Weise

Irving Saraf dies – Oscar-winning filmmaker

Nellie Bowles
Updated 1:05 pm, Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Irving Saraf, a renowned figure in the Bay Area filmmaking community who won an Academy Award in 1991 for his documentary on the San Francisco Opera Chorus, died Dec. 26 after battling Lou Gehrig‘s disease for three years. He was 80.

Mr. Saraf and his wife, Allie Light, worked together from their home in Glen Park, creating socially minded documentaries and TV series, including “In the Shadow of the Stars,” which won the Oscar, and “Dialogues With Madwomen,” which won an Emmy. He helped found KQED’s special projects department and Fantasy Films, the company behind the Oscar-winning film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

“Our films didn’t make us a lot of money, but they took us all over the world,” says Light. “Irving lived for stories and characters. He was always trying to find the truth, always trying to show the people we don’t always see.”

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Irving-Saraf-dies-Oscar-winning-filmmaker-4177499.php#ixzz2HzeU1218

 

A Glen Park angle:

Irv and Allie helped with a fund-raiser around 2005 for furnishings for the new Glen Park Library. They showed the Oscar-winning “In the Shadow of the Stars” at Lick-Wilmerding High School. Some of the opera chorus singers also attended, and Irv and Allie brought the Oscar and people got to be photographed holding it.

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Bulb Planting on the Glen Park Greenway!!

Please join Friends of the Glen Park Greenway to plant tulips and daffodils this coming weekend. All ages welcome!

We have prepared a 20' x 8' bed on the Glen Park Greenway in front of the raised bed behind St. Johns School (near Burnside Avenue). Just stop by on Saturday March 20 or Sunday March 21 from 10am to 2pm and ask for Kathy or Scott.

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Bulb Planting on the Glen Park Greenway!!

Please join Friends of the Glen Park Greenway to plant tulips and daffodils this coming weekend. All ages welcome! 

We have prepared a 20 x 8 bed on the Glen Park Greenway in front of the raised bed behind St. Johns School (near Burnside Avenue). Just stop by on Saturday March 20 or Sunday March 21 from 10am to 2pm and ask for Kathy or Scott.

Masks and social distancing will be required for everyone
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Glen Park and Diamond Heights Public Safety Town Hall
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