New Board Member: Syd Staiti

Posted November 13th, 2024 in Announcements, News / Events

Canyon Cinema is delighted to welcome Syd Staiti to our Board of Directors!

Syd Staiti is a poet and film programmer living in South Berkeley. He received a BA at Binghamton University in 2001 and an MFA at Mills College in 2007. He has presented readings and video work at BAMPFA, SF State Poetry Center, the Poetry Project, the Poetic Research Bureau, SF Cinematheque CROSSROADS Film Festival, Black Hole Cinematheque, and more. Staiti’s books include Seldom Approaches (The Elephants, 2023) and The Undying Present (Krupskaya Books, 2015), as well as several chapbooks. He has written essays on Agnes Varda for Open Space, SFMOMA’s former online platform, and on the work of Renee Gladman and Pamela Lu for The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture published by Wolfman Books. Staiti was director of Small Press Traffic from 2019-2024 and has been a member of the Light Field film collective since 2017.

Syd joins current Board members Michael Renov (President), Jeffrey Skoller (Treasurer), Patricia Ledesma Villon (Secretary), Brian L. Frye, Lian Ladia, Jonathan Marlow, Lynne Sachs, and Steve Seid in overseeing Canyon Cinema’s affairs and helping us achieve our mission. To learn more about Canyon Cinema’s Board of Directors, visit: https://canyoncinema.com/about/board-of-directors/