2020 Golden Gate Awards Official Selections
Documentary Feature
Acaså, My Home
Radu Ciorniciuc, Romania/Germany/Finland
Collective
Alexander Nanau, Romania/Luxembourg
The Iron Hammer (Bay Area)
Joan Chen, USA/China/Italy
The Last Autumn
Yrsa Roca Fannberg, Iceland
Mayor
David Osit, USA/UK/Palestine
143 Sahara Street
Hassan Ferhani, Algeria/France
River City Drumbeat (Bay Area)
Marlon Johnson, Anne Flatté, USA
Saudi Runaway
Susanne Regina Meures, Switzerland
Some Kind of Heaven
Lance Oppenheim, USA
Time
Garrett Bradley, USA
New Directors Prize
Abou Leila
Amin Sidi-Boumédiène, Algeria/France/Qatar
Farewell Amor
Ekwa Msangi, USA
The Fever
Maya Da-Rin, Brazil/France/Germany
Freeland (Bay Area)
Mario Furloni, Kate McLean, USA
Lucky Chan-sil
Kim Cho-hee, South Korea
Miss Juneteenth
Channing Godfrey-Peoples, USA
Valley of Souls
Nicolás Rincón Gille, Colombia/Belgium/Brazil/France
Workforce
David Zonana, Mexico
You Will Die at Twenty
Amjad Abu Alaia, Sudan/France/Egypt/Germany/Norway/Qatar
Zana
Antoneta Kastrati, Albania/Kosovo
Animated Short
Daughter
Daria Kashcheeva, Czech Republic
Grab My Hand: A Letter to My Dad
Camrus Johnson, Pedro Piccinini, USA
Grandad was a romantic
Maryam Mohajer, UK
I Bleed
Tiago Minamisawa, Bruno H. Castro, Guto BR, Brazil
Memoirs of Vegetation
Jessica Oreck, USA
Metro6 (Bay Area)
Geoff Hecht, USA
Pantyhose
Lydia Ricci, USA
Purpleboy
Alexandre Siqueira, Portugal
Wong Ping’s Fables 2
Wong Ping, Hong Kong
Yes People
Gísli Darri Halldórsson, Iceland
Documentary Short
Abuelos (Bay Area)
Rodrigo Reyes, USA
Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business
Christine Turner, USA
Lichen
Lisa Jackson, Canada
Loch Ness Swim (Bay Area)
Sean Gillane, USA/UK
One Thousand Stories: The Making of a Mural (Bay Area)
Tasha Van Zandt, USA
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Hannah Currie, UK
Family Films
Broken Bird
Rachel Harrison Gordon, USA
Día de la Madre
Ashley Brandon, Dennis Hohne, USA
Elephant in the Room
Brian R. Scott, USA
For Estefani
Jordan Bruner, USA
The Fox & The Pigeon
Michelle Chua, Aileen Dewhurst, Canada
Grab My Hand: A Letter to My Dad
Camrus Johnson, Pedro Piccinini, USA
Loop (Bay Area)
Erica Milsom, USA
Magic of Chess
Jenny Schweitzer Bell, USA
Matches
Géza M. Tóth. Hungary
Pangu
Shaofu Zhang, USA/China
Puddles
Zach Parrish, USA
Narrative Shorts
Basurero
Eileen Cabiling, Philippines
The Devil’s Harmony
Dylan Holmes Williams, UK
Island Queen
Zackary Grady, Jenn Harris, USA
Matriochkas
Bérangère McNeese, Belgium
Stay Awake, Be Ready
Pham Thien An, Vietnam
Sticker
Georgi M. Unkovski, Macedonia
New Visions
How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather
Anna Kipervaser, USA
Reverse Shadow
Janie Geiser, USA
Serial Parallels
Max Hattler, UK
Spit on the Broom
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, USA
Standing Forward Full
Alee Peoples, USA
Stream (Bay Area)
Diana Sánchez Maciel, Mexico/USA
Under the paving stones, the beach
Amanda Katz, USA
Vever (for Barbara)
Deborah Stratman, USA/Guatemala
Youth Works
Chasing Normality
Madison Empalmado, USA
Coffee Cart (Bay Area)
Catherine Lu, Alexandra Knopf, USA
Diamond Game
Nolan Hieu Trifunovic, USA
Early Works
Ethan Ross, UK
Fishy (Bay Area)
Ashley Cai, USA
Indian Gold (Bay Area)
Viggo Williams, USA
Jimmy Qirqqut – Gjoa Haven Elder
Kadence Kikoak, Canada
Longer Nights
J Frisch-Wang, Germany
No Fan of Andy
Kai Tomizawa, USA
Passenger
Cal Viet Thacher, USA
Shotgun
Grace Gallagher, USA
Symmetry
Robert Plaza, Australia