Essential SF shines a light on the Bay Area’s legendary, idiosyncratic and multifaceted contributions to the filmmaking world at SF Film Society | New People Cinema, 7:00 pm, November 6, 2011, honoring veteran visionaries Irving Saraf and Allie Light, Karen Larsen, Joshua Grannell, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and Canyon Cinema. An outgrowth of SF360.org’s Essential SF column, the event this year also pays tribute to Susan Gerhard's work on the half-decade-plus SF360.org project.