He served as the associate director for the San Francisco International Film Festival from 1980 – 1983, was a multiyear member and president of the board of directors under chairman George Gund and continued as a member of its advisory board from 1980 through 2022. Luddy served as a member of the five-person selection committee for the New York Film Festival (1979 – 1982) as well as West Coast programming consultant in 1978, 1983 – 1984. He also served on the juries of the 11 th Moscow Film Festival, the 38 th Berlin Film Festival and several others including the Cartegena, Mexico City, Morelia, Tehran, and San Paolo Film Festivals. Luddy was the American jury member at the 46 th Cannes Film Festival under jury chairman Louis Malle.
Luddy had remained with the Festival as co-director, then artistic director and advisor until the end of 2022. Their vision, which began in a small opera house theatre, has evolved over the past fifty years into one of the most revered film festivals in the world. Together with Bill and Stella Pence and James Card, Tom co-founded the Telluride Film Festival in 1974.
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In 1972 he joined the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley as its program director and curator of film until 1979. From 1970 – 1972 Luddy, along with Mel Novikoff, was program director for Surf Interplayers Cinema in San Francisco. In 1968 Luddy curated a complete (to date) retrospective of the films of Jean-Luc Godard for the Pacific Film Archive, and in 1969 he organized two US college tours for the university art museum in Berkeley with Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin for the Dziga Vertov Group. He then made the move to the Telegraph Repertory Cinema in Berkeley as its program director (1967 – 1969) while also assisting artistic director Albert Johnson at the San Francisco International Film Festival (l967 – 1973). Upon graduating, Luddy was hired at Brandon Films in New York as its director of national distribution from 1966 – 1967 where he worked with Pier Paolo Pasolini on the US release of ACCATONE and with Alain Resnais on the US release of LA GUERRE EST FINI. In 1964 he worked as the assistant to Ed Landberg at the Berkeley Cinema Guild, Repertory Cinema. Murnau Film Society, the Slate Film Society, and the Student Union Film Series. We at the Festival owe it to him to carry on his legacy his commitment to and love for cinema, above all.”īorn June 4, 1943, in New York City, Tom began his career in film as a student at UC Berkeley (1962-1965) where he was the program director of several student film societies including the F.W. We’re so much better off because of him and that labor. He called Telluride a labor of love for a very long time. But once you knew him, you were welcomed into a kingdom of art, history, intelligence, humor, and joie de vivre that you knew you couldn’t be without. He had a sphinxlike quality that took a little time to get around, for some.
“I would sometimes find myself feeling sad for those who didn’t get to know Tom Luddy properly. “The world has lost a rare ingredient that we’ll all be searching for, for some time,” reflects Julie Huntsinger, Telluride Film Festival Executive Director. His presence will be profoundly missed by the many people whose lives were touched by his kindness, artistry, and his innate ability to bring people together to make something beautiful. He had a life-long love and passion for film, and a tireless dedication to film restoration, distribution, and exhibition.
Tom was a force in the film industry for nearly six decades. Tom died peacefully on February 13, 2023, in Berkeley, California after a long illness. It is with deep sorrow the Telluride Film Festival announces the passing of its founder and inspiration, Tom Luddy.
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