Beau Blanchard

Associate Director of Institutional Giving, California Film Institute (CAFILM)

Beau started at the nonprofit California Film Institute in 2009 with the 32nd Mill Valley Film Festival and has risen to his current position of Associate Director of Institutional Giving, now responsible for over $4M annually in sponsorships and grants.A graduate of the University of Southern California, Beau studied Journalism and Cinema which led to a producing position with Sony Pictures Entertainment & Columbia Pictures. After a decade on the studio-side of the Hollywood film industry, Beau returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008 with the San Francisco Film Society (now SFFILM) to rediscover his 'cinephile roots' through independent, foreign, and documentary film exposition & distribution.