Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Allie Light, center, in her last Bay Area film festival appearance, in 2018, with Eleanor Coppola, left, and Amanda Salazar.

Documentaries generally don’t need an onscreen host. The camera can play host, and real-life stories can tell themselves, with offscreen prompting from research and production, and shrewd direction ...

Allie Light was a celebrated San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker whose career spanned half a century and brought her both an Academy Award and an Emmy. Yet one film she never made was the ...