52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Winners Announced at Golden Gate Awards Ceremony Wednesday, May 6

Golden Gate Award Documentary Feature Winners

Investigative Documentary Feature
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
Anders Østergaard (Denmark/Sweden 2008)
Winner receives a $25,000 cash prize

Bay Area Documentary Feature
D tour, Jim Granato (USA 2008)
Winner receives a $15,000 cash prize, Final Cut Studio 2.0.1 software courtesy of Apple and $2,000 worth of lab services from EFILM Digital Laboratories

Documentary Feature
Nomad's Land, Gaël Métroz (Switzerland 2008)
Winner receives a $20,000 cash prize and Final Cut Studio 2.0.1 software courtesy of Apple

New Directors Award
Snow, Aida Begic (Bosnia and Herzegovina 2008)
Winner receives a $15,000 cash prize and Final Cut Studio 2.0.1 software courtesy of Apple

FIPRESCI Prize
Everything Strange and New, Frazer Bradshaw (USA 2008)

Golden Gate Award Short Film Winners

Adobe Youth Film for Change
A Generation of Consolidation, Samantha Muilenburg, Brooke Noel (USA 2008)
Winner receives a $1,500 cash prize and an Adobe production suite certificate

Youth Work
No Light at the End of the Tunnel, Charlotte Burger (USA 2008)
Winner receives a $1,500 cash prize and an Adobe production suite certificate

Honorable Mention
Poetry in the Dark, Daniel Kharlak (USA 2008)

Work for Kids and Families
Mutt, Glen Hunwick (Australia 2008)
Winner receives a $1,500 cash prize

Animated Short
Kanizsa Hill, Evelyn Lee (USA 2008)
Winner receives a $2,000 cash prize

New Visions
Circles of Confusion, Phoebe Tooke (USA 2008)
Winner receives a $1,500 cash prize and 1,000 feet of Kodak film stock

Bay Area Short, First Prize
Immersion, Richard Levien (USA 2008)
Winner receives a $2,000 cash prize

Bay Area Short, Second Prize
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall, Sam Green, Carrie Lozano  (USA 2008)
Winner receives a $1,500 cash prize

Documentary Short
Tongzhi in Love, Ruby Yang (USA 2008)
Winner receives a $5,000 cash prize

Narrative Short
Angels Die in the Soil, Babak Amini (Iran 2008)
Winner receives a $5,000 cash prize and 1,000 feet of Kodak film stock

Previously announced Golden Gate Award winner (Television)
TV Narrative Long Form: Artemisia, Chiang Hsui-chiung (Taiwan 2008)

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