SFIFF closes as pair of pics share audience prize
SAN FRANCISCO -- As the 46th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival ended Wednesday night, the audience award for favorite narrative feature was shared by two films -- the Maori fable Whale Rider, by New Zealand director Niki Caro, distributed by Newmarket Films, and The Cuckoo, Russian director Alexander Rogozhkin's anti-war comedy distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. As the favorite documentary, moviegoers selected Lisa Denker and Charlotte Lagarde's look at female surfing pioneer and community activist Rell Kapolioka'ehukai Sunn, titled Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka'ehukai. Runner-up for documentary favorite was Franny Armstrong's Drowned Out, a study of the devastation caused by India's Narmada River dam project. The festival concluded with a screening of Mark Decena's San Francisco-based feature Dopamine at the Castro Theatre. Since its April 17 opening with Alan Rudolph's marital comedy, The Secret Lives of Dentists, the festival drew a record 94,500-plus attendants -- up 5% from last year -- to its 200 films from 46 countries.
- 5/2/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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