Who's Behind the Cinema Club

Cinema Club director TIM SIKA has been a movie lover all his life. From his first cinematic experience as a child in Ohio, the magic of the movies affected his being and helped shape his personality. A collector of movie memorabilia in the days when the hobby was practically a secret society, Tim did stints as film critic for his high school and college newspapers, and later handled publicity and public relations for an international organization. While managing a concert venue, he became intimately acquainted with the concept of celebrity, though he himself passes in public largely unmolested.

Host and producer of "Celluloid Dreams", the award winning south bay movie magazine radio show, practically all his spare time ("What's that?" he asks) involves movies in some way, as director of the Camera Cinema Club and co-host of the syndicated cable TV and Cable Ace nominated program "The Reel Review". He is also an in-demand film moderator.

Cinema Club Moderator MICHAEL FOX is a San Francisco film critic and journalist, and the host of KQED-TV's weekly program on independent film, "Independent View." He originated and writes the long-running "Reel World" column in SF Weekly, and has contributed to more than 30 regional and national publications since 1987, including Variety, iFilm.com, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Datebook and San Francisco magazine. Fox is also a film instructor at UC Extension. Depending on his mood, his favorite film is either Rules of the Game or From Russia With Love.