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Tom Luddy, Co-Founder of Telluride Film Festival, Dies at 79
14.02.2023 - 21:21 / thewrap.com
Tom Luddy, the film producer who co-founded Telluride Film Festival, died Monday in Berkeley, California after a long illness, the festival confirmed. He was 79.The producer behind films like “The Secret Garden” (1993) and “Barfly” (1987) co-founded the festival in 1974 with Bill and Stella Pence and James Card. He served as co-director, then artistic director and advisor up until the end of 2022. “Tom was a force in the film industry for nearly six decades,” Telluride wrote in a release.
“He had a life-long love and passion for film, and a tireless dedication to film restoration, distribution, and exhibition. 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.”“The world has lost a rare ingredient that we’ll all be searching for, for some time,” said Julie Huntsinger, Executive Director of Telluride Film Festival. “I would sometimes find myself feeling sad for those who didn’t get to know Tom Luddy properly.
He had a sphinxlike quality that took a little time to get around, for some. 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 made life richer.
Magical.”“He called Telluride a labor of love for a very long time. We’re so much better off because of him and that labor,” she continued. “We at the Festival owe it to him to carry on his legacy; his commitment to and love for cinema, above all.”Born June 4, 1943, in New York City, Luddy embarked on his lifelong film career while studying at UC Berkeley as the director of several student film programming organizations.
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I Am Cuba would probably still be locked away in a vault in Russia,” Scorsese continued. “He also produced films that really counted, by Werner Herzog, Paul Schrader, Norman Mailer, Jean-Luc Godard, Barbet Schroeder, Agnieszka Holland and others.
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