Sundown Cinema, a decades-old outdoor film series, has been canceled this year due to the ongoing financial struggles of its organizer, the San Francisco Parks Alliance.
Layoffs and other difficulties have plagued the nonprofit organization for months, prompting them to pull the plug on the free outdoor screenings just ahead of its usual summer season. The annual event series has been held at parks around the city since 2003.
“We do not currently have staff on board to produce Sundown Cinema,” SF Parks Alliance CEO Robert Ogilvie told the Chronicle. “For us to be able to afford to have the staff to do it, we would have to have the right level of funding.”…