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47th San Francisco International Festival Announces Golden Gate Award Nominees The 47th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 15–29) unveiled its official selection for the Golden Gate Awards (GGA) competition, which honors superior innovation in documentary, animation, shorts, experimental, television and works by youth. Winners will be announced at the Golden Gate Awards ceremony on April 28 at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. Official selections will be screened in a variety of curated programs throughout the Festival to give public audiences the opportunity to savor the talents of diverse filmmakers from around the globe. Over 1,300 entries were submitted, and the final program offers 57 programs from over 20 countries. “The Golden Gate Awards films have been an essential element of the San Francisco International Film Festival since their inception,” said Roxanne Messina Captor, executive director of the Festival. “At the Golden Gate Awards ceremony, we will announce the award-winning titles in all categories, along with the SKYY Prize and FIPRESCI Jury Prize winners.” The GGA competition always offers an early look at future award winners and nominees. Last year’s winner of the documentary category, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, is an Academy Award nominee this year and many of this year’s presentations have already received commendations from other film festivals. SUPER SIZE ME, a look at obesity and the fast food industry, won the Director’s Award in the documentary field at this year’s Sundance film festival while THE CORPORATION is a riveting in-depth investigation into the history of incorporated entities, was named Most Popular Canadian Film at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival. The selections also showcase stellar Bay Area-based filmmaking talent, and this year’s presentations are no exception. Features such as Amanda Micheli’s DOUBLE DARE, a film about Hollywood stunt women; Lexi Leban and Lidia Szajoko’s GIRL TROUBLE, a sobering look at three girls caught up in San Francisco’s juvenile justice system; and Judy Irving’s winning portrait of a local bird lover in THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL continue to prove that the San Francisco Bay Area is fertile ground for excellence in documentary filmmaking. Equally remarkable are the films from young people in the GGA’s Youth Work section. This year offers BUS 24: THE DIVERSITY BUS, which traverses the motley route taken by a San Francisco municipal bus, the computer-animated adventures of TECHNOPENGUIN and much more. “This year’s Golden Gate Award competition covers a lot of exciting thematic ground from a wide variety of cultures and countries,” said Linda Blackaby, director of programming. “Documentarians have a world of ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ stories at their disposal and Festivalgoers have a fantastic wealth of films to choose from as a result.” Pre-screening committees and panels comprised of Bay Area media professionals convened from November 2003 through January 2004 to view all entries and nominate as official selections the most distinguished films and videos across 12 categories based on excellence in form and content. Juries of renowned film professionals will assemble during the Festival to determine the winners who will receive trophies and cash prizes of up to $5,000. Comprising the documentary jury are Michael Ehrenzweig, Jytte Jensen and Wesley Morris. Serving on the documentary shorts jury are Deirdre Lynch, Sandip Roy-Chowdhury and Toni Tabora. And the jury members for the non-documentary shorts are Ann Martin, Jenni Olson and Joel Shepard. Additionally, the winner of the Best Documentary Feature will receive $2,000 worth of lab services from AlphaCine Labs. Golden Gate Award Official Selections 47th San Francisco International Film Festival FILM & VIDEO DOCUMENTARY FEATURES The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, Phil Grabsky (England/Afghanistan, 2003) Checkpoint, Yoav Shamir (Israel, 2003) The Corporation, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott (Canada, 2004) ouble Dare*, Amanda Micheli (USA, 2003) Girl Trouble*, Lexi Leban and Lidia Szjako (USA, 2004) Haunting Douglas, Leanne Pooley (New Zealand, 2003) In Satmar Custody, Nitzan Gilady (Israel, 2003)
Baked Together, Suzanne Schulz (Germany, 2003) Café 1996*, Jess Fulton (USA, 2003) Crystal Harvest*, Annelise Wunderlich (USA, 2003) The Hot 8, Greg Samata (USA, 2003) A Life to Live, Maciej Adamek (Poland, 2003) Old Glory*, Andy Schocken (USA, 2003) POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English, Pedro Carvajal (USA, 2003) The Sixth Section, Alex Rivera (USA/Mexico, 2003) The Very Best Day, Pavel Medvedev (Russia, 2003) When the Storm Came*, Shilpi Gupta (USA/India, 2003) NARRATIVE SHORTS The Ball, Anny Slater (Australia, 2003) Bugs, Igor Ivanov (Macedonia, 2003) Chinese Dream, Victor Quinaz (USA, 2004) Clutch, Jackie Schulz (Australia, 2003) Fragile, Sikander Goldau (Germany, 2003) Hare-Hunting, Igor Voloshin (Russia, 2003) The King of the Tango, Karen Friedberg (USA, 2004) The Man in the Cupboard, Tallulah H. Schwab (Netherlands, 2003) My Mother’s Motorbike, Séverine Cornamusaz (Switzerland, 2003) Savior, Erla B. Skúladóttir (Iceland, 2003) WORKS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES Cirkustour, Michael Varming (Denmark, 2003) Colorforms, Eva Saks (USA, 2003) Hic!, Koyalee Chanda (USA, 2003) Sunday Paper p.2b*, Eric Towner (USA, 2003) Tarzan, Torben Meier (Germany, 2003) A Work in Progress, Wes Ball (USA, 2002)
ANIMATED SHORTS Origin of the World, Peter Kerekes (Slovakia, 2002) The Way, Jung Min-Young (South Korea, 2003)
NEW VISIONS The Greater Vehicle*, Robert Fox (USA, 2003) imAgo, Nikos Veliotis (Greece, 2003) It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne (USA, 2003) Martin, Bill Basquin (USA/New Zealand, 2004) Not Too Much Remember, Tony Gault (USA, 2003) Papillon d’amour, Nicolas Provost (Belgium, 2003) You Define Single File, Random Touch (USA, 2003)
YOUTH WORK Bus 24: The Diversity Bus, Julie Trell and Aron Ranon (USA, 2003) Four Short Films About Love, Alex Baum, David Cohen, Hannah Lesser, Leah Whitman-Salkin, Maissa Chouraki, Max Andrews, Max Stanley, Rachel Bornett, Sophie Teper and Tamara Rosenfeld (USA, 2003) Helena: Helen’s Journey Through Mexico, Helen Cho (USA, 2003) Phone Cycle, Alex Lasheras and Chad Toronchuk (Canada, 2003) Strictly Family: Changing the Definition, Jasmine Chauca, Terrence Fisher and Michelle Watson (USA, 2003) TechnoPenguin, Vivian Nikolich (USA, 2003) Urban Frankenstein, George S. Rosenthal (USA, 2004)
TV DOCUMENTARY LONG FORM Bad Behaviour, Hilary Clarke (England, 2003) TV DOCUMENTARY SHORT FORM A Diary from the Next World, Oxana Barkovskaya (Russia, 2003) TV NARRATIVE LONG FORM So Close to Home, Jessica Hobbs (Australia, 2003)
Lot, Tamar van den Dop (Netherlands, 2003) * This film is also eligible for a Bay Area Award.
70 SHORTS 3 WORLD PREMIERES 2 INTERNATIONAL PREMIERES 3 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERES 12 U.S. PREMIERES
Peter J. Owens Award – Chris Cooper Film Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing – Milos Forman Mel Novikoff Award – Paolo Cherchi Usai Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award – Jon Else Golden Gate Awards – List of official selections available upon request; Golden Gate Award – 14 winners to be announced on April 28 at the Golden Gate Awards ceremony. SKYY Prize – Recipient to be announced on April 28 at the Golden Gate Awards ceremony. Virgin Megastore Audience Awards – To be announced on April 29.
The 47th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 15-29, 2004) is presented by the San Francisco Film Society, a nonprofit arts and educational organization dedicated to celebrating international film and the moving image.
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