May 4, 2011
Festival
Golden Gate Award Documentary Feature Winners
Investigative Documentary Feature: Crime After Crime, Yoav Potash (USA 2011)
• Winner receives $25,000 cash prize
Documentary Feature: Better This World, Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway (USA 2011)
• Winner receives $20,000 cash prize
Bay Area Documentary Feature: Better This World, Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway (USA 2011)
• Winner receives $15,000 cash prize and $2000 laboratory services from EFILM Digital Laboratories.
New Directors Award: The Journals of Musan, Park Jung-bum (South Korea 2010)
• Winner receives $15,000 cash prize
FIPRESCI Prize: The Salesman, Sébastien Pilote (Canada 2011)
Golden Gate Award Short Film Winners
Narrative Short: Blokes, Marialy Rivas (Chile 2010)
• Winner receives $5,000 cash prize
Documentary Short: Into the Middle of Nowhere, Anna Frances Ewert (Scotland, England 2010)
• Winner receives $5,000 cash prize
Animated Short: The External World, David O’Reilly (Ireland 2010)
• Winner receives $2,000 cash prize and Maya animation software provided by Auto Desk
Bay Area Short, First Prize: Tourist Trap, Skye Thorstenson (USA 2010)
• Winner receives $2,000 cash prize
Bay Area Short, Second Prize: Young Dracula, Alfred Seccombe (USA 2010)
• Winner receives $1,500 cash prize
New Visions: Lost Lake, Zackary Drucker (USA 2010)
• Winner receives $1,500 cash prize and 1,000 feet of Kodak film stock
Work for Kids and Families: Specky Four Eyes, Jean-Claude Rozec (France 2010)
• Winner receives $1,500 cash prize
Youth Work: Z-Man, Nat Talbot (USA 2010)
• Winner receives $1,500 cash prize
Youth Work Honorable Mention: The Snowman, Kelly Wilson, Neil Wrischnik (USA 2010)
Youth Work Honorable Mention: The Math Test, Sam Rubin (USA 2010)
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
54th San Francisco International Film Festival
The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 21-May 5, 2011 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre, New People and SFMOMA in San Francisco and the Pacific Film Archive Theater in Berkeley. Held each spring for 15 days, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in the country’s most beautiful city, featuring 15 juried awards, 200 films and live events with upwards of 100 participating filmmakers and diverse audiences of 75,000+ people.