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San Francisco International Film Festival

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    Golden Gate Award

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    Best Bay Area Documentary Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour

      6.9 (57)
      Susan Stern(director)
      Bernal Beach Films

    Golden Spire

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    Bay Area Film & Video - Documentary

    • Winner

      Paulina

      7.7 (30)
      Vicky Funari

    Best Bay Area Short

    • Winner

      Return to Grace

      Luci Kwak

    Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Forgotten Fires

      8.9 (12)
      Michael Chandler

    Film & Video - Current Events

    • Winner

      Off Season

      8.1 (20)
      Pepe Danquart
      Mirjam Quinte

    Film & Video - First Person Documentary

    • Winner

      In het huis van mijn vader

      7.6 (32)
      Fatima Jebli Ouazzani

    Film & Video - Sociology-International

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Die Salzmänner von Tibet

      7.4 (309)
      Ulrike Koch

    Film & Video - Sociology-U.S.

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Farm: Angola, USA

      7.5 (838)
      Liz Garbus
      Jonathan Stack

    Television - Children's Programs

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Boy Who Stopped Talking

      6.9 (114)
      Ben Sombogaart

    Television - Current Events

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

      8.2 (264)
      Ayelet Menahemi
      Eilona Ariel

    Television - Drama-Television Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Cameleon

      7.7 (17)
      Ceri Sherlock

    Silver Spire

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    Film & Video - Biography

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Lady with the white hat

      6.1 (11)
      Aliona van der Horst
      NFTA

    Film & Video - First Person Documentary

    • Winner

      The Andre Show

      7.1 (12)
      Beverly Peterson

    Film & Video - Short Documentary

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      Winner

      Rat Women

      6.9 (10)
      Minkie Spiro

    Film & Video - Short Narrative I (15 Minutes and Under)

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      Why I Don't Go to the Movies

    Television - Animation

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      Winner

      Redux Riding Hood

      7.0 (219)
      Steve Moore

    Television - Drama-Television Feature

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      Winner

      Miss Evers' Boys

      7.1 (1.5K)
      Joseph Sargent

    Special Jury Award

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    Best Short Film

    • Winner

      Return to Grace

      Luci Kwak

    Certificate of Merit

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    Film & Video - Animation

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      Winner

      Keep in a Dry Place and Away from Children

      6.1 (13)
      Andy Brown
      Martin Davies

    Film & Video - Biography

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      The Greatest Murder Story Never Told

      6.3 (8)
      Mark Stanoch
      Festival title: Like Something out of a Novel.

    Film & Video - First Person Documentary

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      Moment of Impact

      7.2 (20)
      Julia Loktev

    Film & Video - Sociology-U.S.

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      Winner

      Frat House

      6.7 (516)
      Andrew Gurland
      Todd Phillips

    Film & Video - The Arts

    • Winner

      Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas

      7.2 (10)
      Ali Kazimi

    New Visions - Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Pensão Globo

      7.0 (47)
      Matthias Müller

    Television - Children's Programs

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      Winner

      Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

      Episode: 

      Mother Goose

      6.8 (872)
      Ed Bell

    SKYY Prize

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    Best First Feature

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      Winner

      Following

      7.4 (107K)
      Christopher Nolan
      Emma Thomas
      Jeremy Theobald
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      Winner

      Somersault in a Coffin

      7.6 (12K)
      Dervis Zaim

    Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award

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    • Robert Frank
      Winner
      • Robert Frank

    Mel Novikoff Award

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    • Winner

      Peter J. Owens Award

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      • Nicolas Cage at an event for Drive Angry (2011)
        Winner
        • Nicolas Cage

      Akira Kurosawa Award

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      • Im Kwon-taek
        Winner
        • Im Kwon-taek

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      Event date

      April 23, 1998 - May 7, 1998

      Event location

      San Francisco, California, USA

      Event links

      • http://www.sffs.org/
      • http://www.fipresci.org/

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