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)

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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.

San Francisco Film Society
Building on a 50-plus year legacy of bringing the best in world cinema to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Film Society is a national leader in exhibition, education and filmmaker services.

The Film Society presents 300 days of exhibition each year, reaching a total audience of 130,000 people. Its acclaimed education program introduces international cinema and media literacy to more than 15,000 teachers and students and presents 120 classes and workshops annually. Through the filmmaker services program essential creative and business services, and funding totaling millions of dollars, are provided to deserving filmmakers of all levels.

The Film Society seeks to elevate all aspects of film culture, offering a wide range of activities that engage emotions, inspire action, change perceptions and advance knowledge. A 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, it is largely donor and member supported. Patronage and membership provides discounted prices, access to grants and residencies, private events and a wealth of other benefits.

For more information visit sffs.org.

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