REEL LOCAL NEWS By Pam Grady

Spanish artists: David Pujol’s documentary, “Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality,” kicks off “Viva España: The Artist and Writers of Spain,” which begins Tuesday, Jan. 8, and runs through June 16 at Larkspur’s Lark Theater.

Other films in the program produced by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation include documentaries on Cervantes, playwright and poet Federico García Lorca, and painters Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Joaquín Sorolla. Each film plays twice. http://larktheater.net Leadership change: Lex Sloan, who has been the general manager for the Roxie Theater, is stepping into the role of the organization’s interim executive director. She replaces Elizabeth O’Malley, who left the position to become managing director of SFFilm.

Sloan, who has been with the Roxie for 3½ years, has overseen improvements to the Little Roxie cinema with industry-standard upgrades to projection and sound systems; founded Outlook, the Roxie’s LGBT film series; and began Roxie Review in support of local filmmakers. Prior to coming to the Roxie, Sloan worked at the Frameline Film Festival and the San Francisco Green Festival. She is also a filmmaker with a master’s degree in cinema from San Francisco State University. Bowie’s glam days: On Tuesday, Jan. 8, which would have been David Bowie’s 72nd birthday, the San Francisco Public Library presents “David Bowie on Film.”

San Francisco writer and author Richie Unterberger (“White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day,” “The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film”) will discuss Bowie’s career and show clips from the late 1960s and the Ziggy Stardust glam rock era of the 1970s and ’80s.

The free event commences at 6:30 p.m. at the Koret Auditorium of the Main Library, 100 Larkin St.

Ida Lupino at 100: Ida Lupino (1918-1995) was a successful Hollywood actress, the star of such films as “High Sierra” and “They Drive by Night,” when she cofounded the Filmmakers, an independent production company, and embarked on a second career as a film director. Three of Lupino’s trailblazing directorial efforts take center stage in this series at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, running on successive Wednesdays, Jan. 9-23.

The program kicks off with the newly restored “Not Wanted,” Lupino’s debut about a young waitress who is seduced and abandoned by a musician (Leo Penn, Sean’s father), followed by two 1953 Edmond O’Brien dramas, “The Hitch-Hiker” and “The Bigamist.” https://drafthouse. com/sf World.” 6 p.m. Thursdays, Jan. 10-24. Free. www.sfmoma.org

 Shorts by Dana Nachman (“Pick of the Litter”) and Cheryl Dunye (“The Watermelon Woman”) in collaboration with Ellen Spiro (“Body of War”) are among the films screening at the Roxie Theater at 7 p.m. Jan. 15 as part of the Bay Area Femme Fatales Showcase, spotlighting the work of documentary filmmakers. www.roxie.com

 “Rodents of Unusual Size,” Bay Area filmmakers Chris Metzler, Quinn Costello and Jeff Springer’s award-winning documentary about the havoc wreaked by invasive nutria on the Louisiana bayou, makes its television premiere as part of the PBS series “Independent Lens” on Jan. 14. www.pbs.org

 Metzler, Costello and Springer also are among the filmmakers who will appear Jan. 16 at KQED’s “Meet 10 Bold Indie Filmmakers,” which will preview the PBS station’s “Behind the Lens” series. Free. www.event brite.com

Pam Grady is a Bay Area freelance writer.

Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation “Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality,” which examines the career of the painter, will screen at the Lark Theater in Larkspur.