San Francisco Film Society Oral History Project Interview with ...

JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: You know? They’re like their own little club. Regardless of who’s
paying the bills.
MIGUEL PENDÁS: But we’ve jumped way ahead in time here. That was 2001. Maybe we
could talk some more about, say, ’86, ’87. Because, now at this point, the two of you are
involved.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: I’m on the board, she’s working for the Festival, and we’re just
rock ’n’ roll, having a great time.
SHEILA CADIGAN: Ronald Reagan is president. The music’s good. It was the cocaine years, I
understand! That’s what one of the other oral history people said, “Well, you have to remember,
those were the cocaine years.”
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Who was that?
SHEILA CADIGAN: Trish Delarius. She said, “Well, I was here in the ’80s.” She said, “We
couldn’t afford it but it was just sort of around.”
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: I don’t think people were doing that here.
SHEILA CADIGAN: In the world.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: In the world. But I always thought we were different than everybody
else. And we are. It’s that whole thing, you know: San Francisco, opposite to Los Angeles. I
mean, the biggest thing about that Festival which has changed—which inevitably it will because
you have to get bigger—was the intimacy about it. What year did you tell me you started, again?
MIGUEL PENDÁS: I was a volunteer in ’90 and ’91, and then I came on staff in ’93.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: When did it become a big business?
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