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Press Release > Festival > 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Award Official Selections

53rd San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Award Official Selections

Mar 30, 2010

Festival

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
Colony, Ross McDonnell, Carter Gunn, Ireland/USA 2009
The Invention of Dr. Nakamats, Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Denmark 2009
Last Train Home, Lixin Fan, Canada/China 2009
Marwencol, Jeff Malmberg, USA 2010
Mugabe and the White African, Andrew Thompson, Lucy Bailey, England 2009
The Peddler, Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano, Adriana Yurcovich, Argentina 2009
Pianomania, Lilian Franck, Robert Cibis, Austria/Germany 2009
*Presumed Guilty, Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith, Mexico 2009
Restrepo, Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger, USA 2010
Russian Lessons, Olga Konskaya, Andrei Nekrasov, Russia/Norway/Georgia 2010
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was, Cláudio Manoel, Micael Langer, Calvito Leal, Brazil 2009

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Coffee Futures, Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, Turkey 2009
*The Darkness of Day, Jay Rosenblatt, USA 2009
*Kaden Later, Harriet Storm, USA 2009
The Shutdown, Adam Stafford, Scotland 2009
Wagah, Supriyo Sen, Germany 2009

NARRATIVE SHORTS
The Armoire, Jamie Travis, Canada 2009
Blink, Silas Howard, USA 2009
Diplomacy, Jon Goldman, USA 2009
*Embrace of the Irrational, Jonn Herschend, USA 2009
*Laundry, Danielle Katvan, USA 2009
Meanwhile, Vitor Leite, Brazil 2009
Me Time, Matt Schuman, USA 2009
Sleeping With Her, Wen Chih Yi, Taiwan 2009
Still Birds, Sara Eliassen, Norway 2009
The Translator, Sonya Di Rienzo, Canada 2009
The Visitors, Samina Akbari, USA 2009

WORKS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES
Cherry on the Cake, Michelle Eastwood, England 2009
Crazy Hair Day, Virginia Wilkos, USA 2009
*Leonardo, Jim Capobianco, USA 2009
Q&A, Mike Rauch, USA 2009
The Mouse That Soared, Kyle Bell, USA 2009

ANIMATED SHORTS
*Alma, Rodrigo Blaas, USA 2009
The Incident at Tower 37, Chris Perry, USA 2009
Logorama, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain, France 2009
Spin, Max Hattler, England 2009
Tussilago, Jonas Odell, Sweden 2010
Vive La Rose, Bruce Alcock, Canada 2009
Voice on the Line, Kelly Sears, USA 2009

NEW VISIONS
*Afterimage: A Flicker of Life, Kerry Laitala, USA 2009
M (abstract film), Felix Dufour-Laperriere, Canada 2009
One and One is Life, Martha Colburn, USA 2009
Release, Bill Morrison, USA 2009
Wednesday Morning Two AM, Lewis Klahr, USA 2009

YOUTH WORKS
Alisha, Daniel Citron, USA 2009
*Blink Another Day, Eric Wen, USA 2009
*Escargot, William Yarbrough, USA 2009
Moon-Shoes, Joel VanZeventer, USA 2009
The Stand, Olivia Chuba, USA 2009

*Bay Area Filmmakers

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