Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Festival - 2006 Awards

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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:

UMA VIDA NOVA
by UNO PIRES
An intimist portrait,depicted as a dialogue between a son and his parents, and an important sociological testimony about the portuguese comunity in France.
Special Prize to Best Documentary Film

TYSTA ROP
by JAN-EJE FERLING
A young wife suspects her husband may be unfaithful. He has started a secret relationship with an older man. Is he bisexual or simply seeking a father like figure as he his own father abandoned him when he was a boy?
Special Prize to the Best Fiction Film

NO MENUS PLEASE
by EDWARD SHIEH
Two immigrants embrace an ingenious solution while competing to distribute restaurant menus.
Awarded Category:  Direction

STUNG
by MIKA RANTONEN
A young Dzenek arrives to Prague for the first time to meet his girlfriend. But locating her apartment turns out to be hard in the hostile, big city.
Awarded Category: Screenplay

HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN MONTANA
by KEN KIMMELMAN
Based on the 1925 "Nation" prize poem, shows how a hot afternoon in Montana is related to the whole world, its land, its history, its people.
Awarded Category: Integral Realization

GETTING DIRECTIONS
by PAMELA SHERROD ANDERSON
A young woman working through love and loss sees true love more clearly after encountering a bickering older couple on her bus ride.
Awarded Category: Art Direction

HELL'S KITCHEN ROCK N ROLL LEGEND
by PAULA PARENTE
Tim Young wants to become a professional musician,but bartends at a Broadway Theatre in New York City to pay his bills.Coworkers discuss Tim and his music.
Awarded Category: Photography

WHAT'S A HERO?
by ELIANA UJUETA PINEDA
Some egotistical criminals go into a bank to rob it. In the midst of the narrative, the concept of ?Hero? is revealed as tenuous, an imbedded ideological scheme.
Awarded Category: Editing, Eliana Ujueta Pineda and Mohamad Ahmed

 

 

 

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SPECIAL MENTIONS:

GLASSHOUSE
by CHI JANG YIN
This video sees through the lens, and becomes a site of interpretation, reflection, and family dynamics explored from complex, multi-faceted perspectives.

RAIMONDS STAPRANS
by GEORGIA MCINNIS
In this Film Raimonds discusses his philosophy of life and painting with comments by Professor Emeritus Peter Selz, former curator of the Modern Museum of Art in New York and by Paul Karlstom former West Coast Director of the Smithsonian Archives.

TRYST WITH DESTINY
by ASHISH NARULA
An engineer, sent by his company to a small town, comes across a woman dressed in a saree and on seeing her face, is terrified and runs away. He immediately heads back to Mumbai. His immediate superior Omkar is perplexed and decides to unravel the myster.
 

OFFICIAL SELECTION
by alphabetical order:

A DIVINE VIRTUOSO-BALLET STAR VLADIMIR MALKHOV, by DANIELA DAVID
A REAR-VIEW OF LIVES, by E. GERMA & E.SHUBINSKI
A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SUNSHINE, by JULIA LEE
ABSOLUTE ZERO, by ALAN WOODRUFF
AMERICAN GOTH, by RYAN RHEA
BERE PER DIMENTICARE-DRINK TO FORGET, by MICHELE CALABRESI
BORN LUCKY, by SHAHIN AFNAN
BRUSH WITH LIFE: THE ART OF BEING EDWARD BIBERMAN, by JEFF KAUFMAN
BUILDIGN BRIDGES, by JEANINE ISABEL BUTLER
DE LARGES DETAILS, by JULIEN DEVAUX
DUAL, by STEVEN R. MONROE
FDNY DREAM BIKE, by JOHN ALLISON
FIRST LIGHT: MONTAUK POINT LIGHTHOUSE, by TOM GARBER
GETTING DIRECTIONS, by PAMELA SHERROD ANDERSON
GLASSHOUSE, by CHI JANG YIN
GO TO LOUISA, by GRZEGORZ PACEK
HELL'S KITCHEN ROCK N ROLL LEGEND, by PAULA PARENTE
HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN MONTANA, by KEN KIMMELMAN
INDUSTRIA AUTOMOBILÍSTICA PROCURA PILOTO DE TESTE, by CHLOË DE CARVALHO
LIEVE MONSTER, by MARCO DE STEFANIS
MONKS, IN THE LAB, by MOREL DELPHINE
NO MENUS PLEASE, by EDWARD SHIEH
RAIMONDS STAPRANS, by GEORGIA MCINNIS
REALITY SHOW, by JASON D'ALBERTI
ROOTED, by ALEXIS KOUROS
SILENT GHUNGROOS, by GAURI WARUDI
STUNG, by MIKA RANTONEN
SWINK, by CHRIS RUSSELL
THE 11th DAY, by CHRISTOS EPPERSON
THE BUTTERFLY GIRL, by IRENE BLANQUEZ
THE PITCH, by MARIO ESCOBAR
THE SHAPE OF WATER, by KUM-KUM BHAVNANI
THE STAGE, by PETER MOSTOVOY
TRYST WITH DESTINY, by ASHISH NARULA
TULIPS FOR DAISY, by MICHAEL DOMINIC
TWO OR MORE, by NOEL HARRIS
TYSTA ROP, by JAN-EJE FERLING
ULYSSES, by ALBERTO DIAMANTE
UMA VIDA NOVA, by NUNO PIRES
UNTOLD LEGACY, by LESLIE K. BROWN
WHAT'S A HERO, by ELIUJUETA PINEDA

The selection was made among more than two hundred registered movies. 

 

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