Noah Cowan Dies: Former Toronto Film Festival & SFFILM Director Was 55
deadline.comNoah Cowan, former co-director of the Toronto Film Festival and executive director of SFFILM in San Francisco, died Wednesday of cancer in Los Angeles, Deadline has confirmed.
He was 55. Cowan died of glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive form of brain cancer he was diagnosed with December 2021. Born on July 22, 1967, in Hamilton, Ontario, he joined TIFF in 1984 as a box office staffer after volunteering with the fest in summer 1981.
He later ran its print traffic department before becoming one of the programmers of TIFF’s Midnight Madness program in 1989.
He was promoted to Program Administrator in 1992, and co-ran Midnight Madness with Colin Geddes in 1997. Cowan served as TIFF’s international programmer from 1997-2001, during which time he was promoted to associate director of programming and then associate director.
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