Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Festival - 2007 Awards

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Previous Festivals Awards: 2006  2005  2004  2003 

AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:

Best Documentary

OCCHIO SENSIBILE
by LILIANA GINANNESCHI
Describes the work of the famous photographer Francesco Zizzola, which was shot for the greater part in south Africa, in a small country called Lesotho, a country populated at this point by orphans due to a dramatic Aids epidemie.
Special Prize to Best Documentary Film

Best Fiction Film

AKHNOOR
by SUDIPTO SEN
A man returning to his small hometown in the mountains after 17 years in Delhi.
Special Prize to the Best Fiction Film

Best Director

COMPULSION
by SAJEEV CHEEROTH
A man comes to realise that in order to escape his past he can't avoid it. But does he make the right decision?
Awarded Category:  Direction

Best Screenplay

THE SOLUTION
by JAN-EJE FERLING
Some houses in the city shall be rebuilt into luxury departments. The new, young owner has inherited the estate company from his insensitive and now dead father. An old tenant has to be evacuated to another flat in some suburb.
Awarded Category: Screenplay

Best Realization

END THE GAME
by NESTOR F. DENNIS
Terrorist anti-programs tv sweepings, organize a double trap to their their objective positions.
Awarded Category: Integral Realization

Best Actress

MISTAKEN
by ROSSANA LACAYO
Mortally marked in a mundane lifestyle  "Mistaken" evolves from a rash decision made by a young woman.
Actress Performance: Helena de Sojo

Best Actor

ONE LAST DRINK BEFORE MORNING
by JD KELLEHER
In a smoky dive bar, two weary, enigmatic friends, and a jaded, cynical barmaid cling to the end of the night.
Actor Performance: Garvan McGrath

Best Cinematography

MY LOVE MY LOVE
by IGAL PEERI
Love story between girl 17 years old who knows that her boy friend going to killed in this war.
Awarded Category: Photography

Best Art Direction

A PRICE TO PAY
by JOSEPH & ANDRE HOVSEPIAN
An Islamic judge condemned a zealous Christian convert from Islam, Mehdi Dibaj to death. His crime was apostasy. Mehdi Dibaj had already served ten years in prison.
Awarded Category: Art Direction

Best Editing

HYGIENIC LOVE
by HERNAN CURUBETO
In a city where no one ever meets, two rolls of toilet paper escape their scatological destiny and find one another.
Awarded Category: Editing: Hernan Curubeto - Chedey Reyes

 

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

Special Mention

A DAY IN THE LIFE
by TONY B. CONSCIOUS
One poet, one camera, three days in the life of the hardest working poet in LA.

Special Mention

THE HIDDEN CHILDREN
by JONATHAN HACKER
Told in their own words, these are the hair-raising stories of four children secretly hidden from the Nazis.

Special Mention

THE TAI PHAKEYS
by MRIDUL GUPTA
A tribe subscribing to the Theravada sect of Buddhism from the Hunan province of China migrating to Thailand and later after some years traversing the indomitable Patkai Ranges reached the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh.
 

OFFICIAL SELECTION
by alphabetical order:

AMERICA'S CHEMICAL ANGELS by XANA CHUMAK
BEYOND THE WALL by MARIE-FRANCE BARRIER
CHIAYI SYMPHONY by STEFANO GIANNOTTI
DRUM DREAMS: DRUM CIRCLES IN NORTH AMERICA by CHARLES F.
EMMONS
DUAL by STEVEN R. MONROE
FATHER, FAMILY AND THE THRESHING MACHINE by ARVIDS KRIEVS
FRESH WOMEN by MICHAEL WHALEN
GANGS OF BAGDAD by AIDA SCHLAEPFER
GOD'S WAITING ROOM by HEENAN BHATTI
GORILLA TRAP by JOHN BARNARD
HE STEALS WITH HIS EYES by CHRISTIAN MARTIN
I'M RICK JAMES by PERRY SANTOS
JE SUIS FEMMOSEXUEL... ET TOI? by OLIVIER CASAS
K. by RAUL SENTIES
KHAMOSHI by LEELA ROY GHOSH
LOS PIOJOS DE EVITA by ANDREA RUFFINI, MARCO SEDDA and
GIANMARCO SERRA
MAASAI MD by BILL STOUT
MILLION DOLLAR BABES by MARIANNE WALLACE-CRABBE and MAGGIE
FOOKE
MY FATHER, AN ARTIST by SANJAY KUMAR
NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME... by JORGE TSIPOS
NOKKUKUTHY by CHERIAN MATHEW
O HOMEM DA PONTE by BRUNO MACEDO
PIPES OF PEACE - RUFUS HARLEY by GEORGE MANNEY
ROOM OF GHOSTS by MARIO A. MORALES
SHAPESHIFTER by ALGIS KEMEZYS
STOLEN FISH - HOW PIRATE FISHING IS ROBBING THE PEOPLE AND
SEAS OF WEST AFRICA by SAM COLE
STORIA DI MICHELA by ERCOLE ROCCHETTI
SUSAN FOR NOW by ROBIN FRANZI
THE ART REPORT by GRAHAM HARTLEY
THE ELEPHANT WALK by RAISSA CONTRERAS
THE FREEDOM TO INSPIRE: A DIFFERENT VIEW OF RUSSIAN-
AMERICAN RELATIONS by JEANNIE FERBER and NIKOLAI ARZHANNIKOV
THE HIP AND THE HYPE by DAVID SMITH
THE INTERROGATION OF BRYAN by TOM SALISBURY
THE OPPORTUNITY by LUCAS  PAREDI
THE POWER OF ART by CLAUDINE POMMIER
THE QUIET LIFE by ALICIA VAN ASSCHE
THE RELEASE PARTRY by JASON GOLDWATCH
THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY by CHARLES OLIPHANT
THE THIEVES OF BAGHDAD by MONTASER MARAI
TIED HANDS by DAN WOLMAN
TIJN... TINO by CARINA ELLEMERS
TRANSFIGURED NIGHTS by DAVID BLYTH
TYSTA ROP by JAN-EJE FERLING
UNA DEVOZIONE A PASSO DI DANZA by ROBERTO GALANTE
WHITE SHADOWS by MIALYN HANNA

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

 

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