Brian Darr was born and raised in San Francisco and currently works in the San Francisco Public Library’s audiovisual department. In 2005 he founded the blog Hell On Frisco Bay, and he has been highlighting local film screenings there (and more recently on Twitter as @HellOnFriscoBay) ever since. He has also written essays for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, sensesofcinema.com, Fandor, and the 2013 book World Film Locations: San Francisco.