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ABOUT
THE FESTIVAL
In 2007, the San Francisco International Film Festival became the
first film festival in the Americas to turn 50. We recognized this
historic milestone in style by screening 120 unique programs of
the finest in international cinema, playing host to more than 80,000
film lovers and hundreds of filmmakers, journalists and film industry
professionals, throwing sensational parties, launching new digital
initiatives like International Online, celebrating Bay Area film
culture, showcasing new technologies and, all in all, having a blast.
ABOUT
THE GOLDEN GATE AWARDS COMPETITION
Festival programmers put together roughly three-quarters of our
programs, including all of the theatrical narrative features. For
the remaining quarter we turn to the Bay Area's active, savvy, dedicated
professional media community, who, through the Golden Gate Awards™
competition, determine the year's best documentaries, shorts, animation,
experimental film and video and television. The GGA quite simply
is one of the most unique, respected and popular competitions in
the world-and the most international.
GOLDEN
GATE AWARDS COMPETITION
Golden Gate Awards Competition for
Documentaries, Shorts, Animation, Experimental, Youth-Produced and
Television Works
UPLOAD THE CRITERIA (PDF)
CRITERIA
The Golden Gate Awards competition is accepting submissions in 11
categories. Entries must have been completed on or after January
1, 2007. Works that have played a multiday commercial theatrical
run in the Bay Area or had any kind of media broadcast are not eligible
to apply to non-television categories.
The New Visions category is ONLY for
experimental film and video in which personal expression and aesthetic
exploration are the primary concerns. If the entry is inappropriate
for New Visions, the Festival will reassign it to the proper category.
Youth Works submissions and college
student submissions must include with the application a copy of
a photo ID indicating proof of age or university enrollment at the
time of production. Adult participation in Youth Works is limited
to an advisory role.
Productions partially financed by television
companies intended for theatrical presentation may be entered in
non-television categories. Works specifically financed and produced
for broadcast must be entered in television categories. Premiere
telecast of the entry must have been on or after January 1, 2007.
Bay Area filmmakers are eligible for
additional Bay Area awards given for works that reflect the rich
variety of work that has established Northern California as a center
of independent production. To qualify for a Bay Area award, entries
must have been made by a current resident of the San Francisco Bay
Area (the area roughly from Monterey to Mendocino: postal zip codes
93901 to 95457).
All GGA entrants will be notified of
the Festival’s decision by the end of February. Official Selections
are screened at the Festival, are eligible to compete for a Golden
Gate Award and will be listed in the Festival Program Guide which
is circulated worldwide to distributors, film commissions, educators
and the media.
AWARDS
International juries view the Official Selections during the Festival
and select the 14 Golden Gate Award winners, ten of which receive
a cash prize. Awards are given for excellence in form and content.
Winners and cash prizes are announced and honored at the Golden
Gate Awards Ceremony. Additional prizes of goods and services have
included Final Cut Pro software from Apple, lab services from Efilm
and film stock certificates from Eastman Kodak. The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences has recognizes the San Francisco International
Film Festival as a qualifying festival for the short films (live
action and animated) competitions of the 80th annual Academy Awards.
CATEGORIES AND GOLDEN GATE
AWARDS PRIZES
Juries make one award per category. Bay Area entries are also eligible
for Bay Area awards as noted.
Documentary Features (40 minutes and
longer) $10,000
Bay Area Documentary Feature $5,000
Documentary Shorts (under 40 minutes)$5,000
Bay Area Documentary Short $2,000
Narrative Shorts* (under 40 minutes) $5,000
Animated Shorts* (under 40 minutes) $2,000
New Visions* $1,500
Youth Works* $1,500
Works for Kids and Families $1,500
Television Narrative Long Form (40 minutes and longer, including
series)no cash award
Television Narrative Short Form (under 40 minutes) no cash award
Television Documentary Long Form (40 minutes and longer, including
series) no cash award
Television Documentary Short Form (under 40 minutes) no cash award
* Animated Shorts, Narrative Shorts
and New Visions works by Bay Area residents are also eligible for
the Bay Area Non-Documentary Short prize of $1,500.
NARRATIVE
FEATURES
Narrative Features
Any narrative feature over 40 minutes completed after January 1,
2007 is eligible to be invited as an Official Selection to be shown
in the Festival. Work in all genres and forms (narrative, animation,
experimental) is accepted in this category. Features previously
exhibited in the Bay Area—theatrically, at another local festival
or broadcast on any type of media—are not eligible to apply.
First features by emerging directors
may be considered for the Festival’s $10,000 SKYY Prize competition
for films exhibiting a unique artistic sensibility or vision deserving
to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. An independent jury
of flm critics, filmmakers and film industry profesionals will screen
the international selection of films during the Festival , and the
winner will be announced at the Golden Gate Awards ceremony. In
selecting the nominees, preference will be given to U.S. premieres.
Narrative feature applicants will be notified of the Festival’s
decision by the end of February.
Audience Awards
Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature (no cash award)
Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature (no cash award)
Chris Holter Award for Humor in Film (all categories eligible except
Television) $2,500
Submit your
film: Click
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You can also download and print out a PDF
of the entry form and send it in.
Link to Filmfestivals.com : Click
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