Rachel Rosen, director of programming for the San Francisco Film Society, Benoit Jacquot, director of FAREWELL, MY QUEEN, and Melanie Blum, SFFS interim executive director, arriving at Opening Night of the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival, April 19, 2012. Photo © Pamela Gentile, courtesy of San Francisco Film Society
The longest-Running Film Festival in the Americas Enjoys a Spectacular Year with Superb Programming, Numerous Spe...
This evening the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival, presented by the San Francisco Film Society, announced the juried Golden Gate Award winners, New Directors Prize winner and FIPRESCI Prize winner at a ceremony held at Rasselas Jazz Club and Restaurant in the historic Fillmore district. This year the Festival awarded over $70,000 in prizes to emerging and established filmmakers from nine countries around the globe.
Golden Gate Award Documentary Feature Winners
Documenta...
11 Narrative Features From Nine Countries Contend for $15,000 New Directors Prize,
12 Documentaries From Nine Countries Contend for $35,000 in Cash Prizes
The 55th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 19 - May 3) today announced the films in competition for the New Directors Prize and the Golden Gate Awards for documentary features. The International will award $70,000 in total prizes this year. The New Directors Prize of $15,000 will be given to a narrative first feature...
The Closing Ceremony for the third annual Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) was held at the Emirates Palace Hotel on Saturday evening. During the ceremony, celebrity guests including Naomi Watts, Orlando Bloom and Eva Mendes presented the 2009 Black Pearl Awards to the winners of MEIFF’s competitions.The awards were the culmination of 10 days of cinema, with 128 films screened. Seventeen Narrative Features, fourteen Documentary Features, twenty‐five Short Films, and ten Stu...
XII. BROOKLYN INT'L FILM FESTIVAL
June 5 - June 14 @ Brooklyn Heights Cinema
2009 WINNERS
GRAND CHAMELEON AWARD
BREAKING UPWARDS by DARYL WEIN
Best Feature Film
BREAKING UPWARDS by DARYL WEIN
Best Documentary (AKA Diane Seligman Award)
THE HILLSIDE CROWD by BERNI GOLDBLAT
Best Short Subject:
THE CHAMBERMAID by ANN HOLMGREN
Best Animation
PASSAGES by MARIE-JOSEE SAINT-PIERRE
Best Experimenta...
The San Francisco Film Society presents the third annual San Francisco International Animation Festival (SFIAF), a four-day event celebrating one of the most fertile, creative and productive forms of artistic, experimental, commercial and industrial media. The International Animation Festival ranges from the latest award-winning features to family-friendly short cartoons and celebrates San Francisco's preeminence as a hub for one of the most vital forms in cinema today. SFIAF will screen Novembe...
SXSW has announced the winners of the 2008 edition of the SXSW Film Festival.Jury AwardsREEL SHORTSSpecial Jury Award - "The Second Line," Director: John Magary.Winner - (Tie) "Warlord," Director: David Garrett & "Small Apartment,"Director: Andrew T. BetzerANIMATED SHORTSSpecial Jury Award - "I hate you don't touch me or Bat and Hat," Director:Becky JamesWinner - "Madame Tulti-Putli," Director: Chris Lavis & Maciek SzczerbowskiEXPERIMENTA...
8TH BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MIAMILINCOLN THEATER – JUNE 9 – 12The 8th Festival brings the best of Brazilian Movies to MiamiFrom the story of the great soccer player Garrincha to the comedy Sex, Love and Betrayal, by Jorge Fernando. From the film produced by real prisoners of Carandiru in The Prisoner of the Iron Bar, to the documentary about the unforgettable Glauber Rocha. This is just a sample of what to expect from the 8th edition of the Brazilian Film Festival of Miami at the Lincol...
