Photo: Barak Shrama
Peter L. Stein's artistic career as a producer and presenter spans film, theater, television, museums, and online media. During 11 years at PBS station KQED, he wrote, directed and produced a wide range of documentaries and series for national public television, garnering such prestigious honors as the Peabody Award (for his feature-length documentary "The Castro") and four Emmy awards for historical, cultural, culinary and environmental programs. Most recently he directed and produced Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft, for PBS’s American Masters series, and Moving San Francisco, about the history and future of transit in the Bay Area.
From 2003-11 Peter was Executive Director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the oldest and largest of its kind anywhere. Combining his passion for media-based stories with community engagement, the festival under Peter’s innovative curatorial direction was named by IndieWire among the top 50 film festivals in the world. He also spent three years developing in-gallery and online exhibitions for the Jewish Museum San Francisco (now the Contemporary Jewish Museum), where he was Deputy Director for Programming. In 2014 he joined the curatorial team of Frameline, San Francisco's landmark international LGBTQ+ film festival, as Senior Programmer.
Peter maintains an active career as a public speaker, conducting on-stage interviews with such diverse talent as Kirk Douglas, Stephen Sondheim, Carlos Santana, Lily Tomlin, Fran Lebowitz, Tony Kushner, Jhumpa Lahiri and Miranda July; he has taught both popular and graduate-level courses in film, and appeared on such programs as NPR's "Fresh Air" and "Weekend Edition." He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University, and a third-generation San Francisco native.
From 2003-11 Peter was Executive Director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the oldest and largest of its kind anywhere. Combining his passion for media-based stories with community engagement, the festival under Peter’s innovative curatorial direction was named by IndieWire among the top 50 film festivals in the world. He also spent three years developing in-gallery and online exhibitions for the Jewish Museum San Francisco (now the Contemporary Jewish Museum), where he was Deputy Director for Programming. In 2014 he joined the curatorial team of Frameline, San Francisco's landmark international LGBTQ+ film festival, as Senior Programmer.
Peter maintains an active career as a public speaker, conducting on-stage interviews with such diverse talent as Kirk Douglas, Stephen Sondheim, Carlos Santana, Lily Tomlin, Fran Lebowitz, Tony Kushner, Jhumpa Lahiri and Miranda July; he has taught both popular and graduate-level courses in film, and appeared on such programs as NPR's "Fresh Air" and "Weekend Edition." He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University, and a third-generation San Francisco native.
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