This is certainly the CCSF-SF connection! Until I read that former mayor Ed Lee had appointed Rodrigo Santos to the Board of Trustees at CCSF, I'd been unaware of this in spite of the fact that it was in 2012, when I was paying special attention to politics at our community college because the ACCJC had given us "Show Cause" and I went to one board meeting that went from 6 on into the next day.
Explaining why he misled people on what he was really doing, he spoke of pressure to get the film school for CCSF. I wasn't sure what he was talking about, but I just found this from 2016:
https://missionlocal.org/2016/03/engineers-plan-cinema-school-for-ccsf-in-tower-theater/
Rodrigo Santos, co-founder of Santos & Urrutia, says he is undertaking the roughly $12-14 million project purely out of a love for the neighborhood and an affinity for film. The school will boast a 200-seat movie theater for screenings as well as several classrooms, editing rooms, equipment rental for students and offices for instructors.
“I’ve always wanted to do something like this,” said Santos. “We’re going to be at the center of the action.”
Though Santos is contributing some of his savings toward the project, he expects to be doing significant fundraising to make the school a reality.
And from 3 days ago: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/rodrigo-santos-sf-engineer-18272470.php#:~:text=He's%20paid%20back%20about%20%24450%2C000,on%20the%20board%20of%20trustees.
