San Francisco
20th April - 4th May
2006
The San Francisco International Film Festival, committed to
celebrating the art of the moving image, has presented the best in
world cinema since 1957. Now, the 15-day Festival presents nearly
200 films from over 50 countries and reaches an engaged audience of
tens of thousands of film lovers, filmmakers, industry
representatives and journalists with screenings in San Francisco,
Berkeley and the Peninsula. The Festival highlights current trends
in international film and video production with an emphasis on work
that has not yet secured U.S. distribution.
The Golden Gate Awards is the
competitive section for documentaries, shorts, animation,
experimental, youth-produced and work for television. Juries award
cash prizes ranging up to $5,000 in ten of the 14 categories.
First features by emerging filmmakers
are eligible for the SKYY Prize, which includes a $10,000 cash
award and was established in 1997 by the Festival and premier
sponsor SKYY Vodka to recognize a director whose film exhibits a
unique artistic sensibility.
The Festival also invites recent
feature-length narratives and documentaries and archival
presentations from around the globe, special awards and tributes
recognizing individual achievement.
SFIFF will hold its landmark 50th anniversary in April 2007.