Education
University of California, Los Los Angeles
director film editor film producer cinematographer
University of California, Los Los Angeles
In total, Saraf had more than one hundred fifty film and television production credits. Saraf was born in Poland and raised in Israel. He emigrated to the United States in 1952, settling in San Francisco.
Light and Saraf formed a professional production partnership beginning in 1981.
Saraf received a Bachelor of Arts in motion pictures from University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles). In addition to producing, Saraf taught film production at San Francisco State University.
Saraf founded the film division of KQED, a Public Broadcasting Service channel in San Francisco. He also worked as the manager of the production company, Fantasy Films, owned by film producer, Saul Zaentz.
Saraf produced many films with Zaentz, including as the post production supervisor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo"s Nest.
In 1995, Light and Saraf were jointly nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy for their work on the Public Broadcasting Service show, Dialogues with Madwomen. Irving Saraf died of complications from three years of Lou Gehrig"s disease at his home in San Francisco on December 26, 2012, at the age of 80. Peter Saraf is an Academy Award nominated producer whose credits include Adaptation in 2002, Little Mission Sunshine 2006 and Our Idiot Brother in 2011.
His resume included Poland, Communism"s New Look, a 1965 television film. United States of America Poetry: Twelve Films About Modern Poets in 1966. And the 2009 documentary Empress Hotel following the residents of a low-income hotel in Tenderloin, San Francisco.