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  SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced

  Susan Gerhard
  May 5, 2011

  Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...

  
• May 5, 2011
  
  

  SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced

  Susan Gerhard
  May 5, 2011

  Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...

  
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  Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’

  Michael Fox
  Apr 11, 2011

  Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'

  
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  Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’

  Michael Fox
  Apr 11, 2011

  Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'

  
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  Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’

  Michael Fox
  Apr 11, 2011

  Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'

  
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  SFIFF54 Announces Documentaries in Golden Gate Awards, Films in New Directors Competition

  Mar 4, 2011

  Press release: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21 - May 5) today announced its documentaries in competition for the Golden Gate Awards and films in competition for the New Directors Prize. The International will award close to $100,000 in total prizes this year. Sixty thousand dollars will be awarded to winners in three categories: investigative documentary feature ($25,000), documentary feature ($20,000) and Bay Area documentary feature ($15,000). The New Directors Prize of $15,000 is given to a narrative first feature that exhibits a unique artistic sensibility and deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. Seventeen countries contributed to the production of the 11 films in this year's competition. Click through for titles or visit sffs.org.

  
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  'Secrecy' Up For Debate

  Robert Avila
  Oct 22, 2008

  Robb Moss and Peter Galison's deliberative, atmospheric and engrossing documentary, Secrecy, puts democratic transparency to the test.