Jason Silverman didn’t have the geeky childhood one normally associates with a future film programmer. The director of Santa Fe’s CCA Cinematheque didn’t sit at home alone watching “Citizen Kane” for the umpteenth time or deconstruct the runaway baby carriage scene in the early Russian film “Battleship Potemkin.” Instead, he was out in his Connecticut neighborhood playing sports with other kids.
After majoring in English at the University of Michigan, Silverman came west to Telluride, Colorado, to work at the ski resort there and enjoy the slopes in his spare time. His film career began in 1997 as a volunteer for the Telluride Film Festival, which took over a Quonset hut for its screenings. He and other volunteers put up “miles of Duvatyne,” a black fabric with a matte finish that is used to block light, to transform a former community center into a cinema.
“It was so thrilling to see world premieres in a theater that we had built with the community,” recalled Silverman during an interview one recent morning at the CCA.
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