May 5, 2010
Festival
Golden Gate Award Documentary Feature Winners
Investigative Documentary Feature: Last Train Home, Lixin Fan (Canada/China 2009)
• Winner receives $25,000 cash prize and Final Cut Studio software provided by Apple
Documentary Feature: Pianomania, Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis (Austria/Germany 2009)
• Winner receives $20,000 cash prize and Final Cut Studio software provided by Apple
Previously announced Golden Gate Award winner
Bay Area Documentary Feature: Presumed Guilty, Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith (Mexico 2009)
• Winner receives $15,000 cash prize, FInal Cut Studio software provided by Apple and $2,000 in lab services from EFILM Digital Laboratories
New Directors Award: Alamar, Pedro González-Rubio (Mexico 2009)
• Winner receives $15,000 cash prize and Final Cut Studio software provided by Apple
FIPRESCI Prize: Frontier Blues, Babak Jalali (Iran/England/Italy 2009)
Golden Gate Award Short Film Winners
Youth Work: Moon Shoes, Joel Vanzeventer (USA 2009)
• Winner receives $1,500 cash prize
Honorable Mention: Alisha, Daniel Citron (USA 2009)
Work for Kids and Families: Leonardo, Jim Capobianco (USA 2009)
• Winner receives $1,500 cash prize
Honorable Mention: The Mouse That Soared, Kyle Bell (USA 2009)Animated Short: Tussilago, Jonas Odell (Sweden 2010) • Winner receives $2,000 cash prize
New Visions: Release, Bill Morrison (USA 2009)
• Winner receives $1,500 cash prize and 1,000 feet of Kodak film stock
Bay Area Short, First Prize: Embrace of the Irrational, Jonn Herschend (USA 2009)
• Winner receives $2,000 cash prize
Bay Area Short, Second Prize: Leonardo, Jim Capobianco (USA 2009)
• Winner receives $1,500 cash prize
Documentary Short: The Shutdown, Adam Stafford (Scotland 2009)
• Winner receives $5,000 cash prize
Narrative Short: The Armoire, Jamie Travis (Canada 2009)
• Winner receives $5,000 cash prize and 1,000 feet of Kodak film stock
Also announced: San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant winners and San Francisco Film Society/Film Arts Foundation Documentary Grant winners. See dedicated releases.
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