SIFF Red Carpet, Fog City Mavericks -- Lucas, Williams, Pelosi, Bird and More!

Last night, the San Francisco International Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Fog City Mavericks -- an entirely appropriate new documentary about the San Francisco Bay Area's contributions to film, from Chaplin to Pixar. The film itself is enjoyable enough (although you have to wonder about a documentary about film in San Francisco -- or about film at all -- that gives more screen time to Chris Columbus than Phillip Kaufman, but that's a minor quibble), but last night it was all about the Red Carpet -- with Bay Area personages like George Lucas, Robin Williams, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Walter Murch, a trio of Pixar's directors and many more. Above, Lucas gives an autograph hound a weary look; below, Robin Williams meets the press -- and there are many more photos after the jump. ...




Pixar's John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton.



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Film Society Executive Director Graham Legatt.


Elizabeth and Brad (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) Bird.



Walter Murch, outside the Castro theater between Murch and Fog City Mavericks.