Peter Scarlet has been working in the New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival since October 2002. He was its executive director until June 2007 before being promoted as its artistic director. He is the event’s chief programmer, primarily responsible for foreign films programming in all of the festival’s sections: the narrative and documentary feature as well as the groundbreaking restored/rediscovered section. He was previously director general of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, being the first American to hold this prestigious post. Prior to that, Mr. Scarlet was artistic director of the San Francisco International Film Festival. Under his leadership the festival, the oldest event of its kind in the Americas founded in 1957, reclaimed its place among the most adventurous and widely respected international film festivals. Its attendance increased more than three-fold. In addition, Mr. Scarlet is host and programmer of the Cinemondo series of foreign films on Link TV. He has served on juries at festivals all over the world and has taught university-level courses in Film History, Production and Theory for eight years. He was named Officier des Arts et des Lettres by France’s Ministry of Culture in 2001.