Filmmaker Philip Kaufman will be honored with the Founder’s Directing Award by the San Francisco Film Society.

Annette Insdorf will lead a Q&A with director Philip Kaufman at the San Francisco International Film Festival on May 5.

Insdorf will be signing copies of her critically acclaimed book at 7pm at the Castro Theater prior to the Q&A and screening of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”

“A thoughtful, scholarly study of one of America’s most underrated filmmakers.”–Leonard Maltin

“A sympathetic, in-depth, and entirely jargon-free look at Kaufman’s work.”–DGA Quarterly

“A shrewd and very readable study.”–Filmmaker

“Superb.”–Hollywood Reporter

“A study so closely tuned to his work and so neatly supplemented with his own insights from interviews and e-mails that it reads like a biography of an oeuvre.”–The New Yorker online