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50<br />
official selections 2009<br />
DOCUMENTARY SHORT<br />
THE CONSCIENCE OF NHEM EN (BAY AREA)<br />
Steven Okazaki, Cambodia<br />
A DAY LATE IN OAKLAND (BAY AREA)<br />
Zachary Stauffer, USA<br />
575 CASTRO ST. (BAY AREA)<br />
Jenni Olson, USA<br />
TONGZHI IN LOVE (BAY AREA)<br />
Ruby Yang, USA<br />
WAITING FOR A TRAIN: THE TOSHIO HIRANO<br />
STORY (BAY AREA)<br />
Oscar Bucher, USA<br />
UTOPIA, PART 3: THE WORLD’S LARGEST SHOP-<br />
PING MALL (BAY AREA)<br />
Sam Green, Carrie Lozano, USA<br />
ZIETEK<br />
Bartosz Blaschke, Poland<br />
NARRATIVE SHORT<br />
ANGELS DIE IN THE SOIL<br />
Babak Amini, Iran<br />
HISTORY OF SOLITUDE<br />
Mathew Szymanowski, Poland<br />
IMMERSION (BAY AREA)<br />
Richard Levien, USA<br />
KONVEX-T<br />
Johan Lundh, Sweden<br />
THE LAKE<br />
Boaz Lavie, Israel<br />
NEXT FLOOR<br />
Denis Villeneuve, Canada<br />
TELEVISION NARRATIVE<br />
LONG FORM<br />
ARTEMISIA<br />
Chiang Hsui-chiung, Taiwan<br />
shorTs Jury<br />
JEssE HAwTHORNE FiCKs<br />
Jesse Hawthorne Ficks programs the popular Midnites<br />
for Maniacs extravaganzas at the Castro Theatre. He<br />
specializes in “neo-sincere” revivals of underrated and<br />
overlooked films of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. In<br />
2008, he honored director Peter Bogdanovich during a<br />
three-day retrospective. Ficks also teaches film history at<br />
the Academy of Art University, works for the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong><br />
Silent <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> and reviews films for the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong><br />
Bay Guardian.<br />
ANIMATED SHORT<br />
AANAATT<br />
Max Hattler, England<br />
FAR AWAY FROM URAL<br />
Katarina Lillqvist, Finland<br />
THE HEART OF AMOS KLEIN<br />
Uri Kranot, Michal Kranot, Israel<br />
KANIZSA HILL<br />
Evelyn Lee, USA<br />
LIES<br />
Jonas Odell, Sweden<br />
PHOTOGRAPH OF JESUS<br />
Laurie Hill, England<br />
SLAVES<br />
David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heiborn, Sweden<br />
NEW VISIONS<br />
CIRCLES OF CONFUSION (BAY AREA)<br />
Phoebe Tooke, USA<br />
DANSE MACABRE<br />
Pedro Pires, Canada<br />
FRIDA IN THE MIRROR (BAY AREA)<br />
Adrian Arias, USA<br />
THE LAST RITES<br />
Yasmine Kabir, Bangladesh<br />
LAST THOUGHTS (BAY AREA)<br />
Paul Burke, USA<br />
ME BRONI BA (MY WHITE BABY)<br />
Akosua Adoma Owusu, USA<br />
RUNNING SUSHI<br />
Mara Mattuschka, Chris Haring, Austria<br />
Shorts <strong>Program</strong>s Sponsor<br />
Amy Hicks has been making experimental work in film,<br />
video and analog/digital combinations for ten years. She<br />
teaches digital media at California College of the Arts<br />
and Stanford University. Her videos and films have been<br />
presented in museums, galleries and film festivals around<br />
the globe. Hicks is currently working on a multichannel<br />
video project funded by the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> Art Commission<br />
and is a member of the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Society<br />
<strong>Film</strong>makers Advisory Board.<br />
WORKS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES<br />
GOOD ADVICE<br />
Andreas Tibblin, Sweden<br />
MUTT<br />
Glen Hunwick, Australia<br />
THE TURTLE AND THE SHARK<br />
Ryan Woodward, USA<br />
WAWA<br />
Mona Achache, France<br />
YOUTH WORKS<br />
THE FREEZE (BAY AREA)<br />
Roxanne Smith, USA<br />
A GENERATION OF CONSOLIDATION *<br />
Samantha Muilenburg, Brooke Noel, USA<br />
NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL<br />
Charlotte Burger, USA<br />
NUESTRA DIGNIDAD *<br />
Kathy Vega-Muñoz, USA<br />
DAILY BREAD *<br />
Yianeth Saenz, USA<br />
POETRY IN THE DARK<br />
Daniel Kharlak, USA<br />
YOUTH VOICES *<br />
Sydney Paige Matterson, USA<br />
* <strong>Film</strong>s in Adobe Youth <strong>Film</strong> for Change<br />
Award competition<br />
Golden Gate Awards Youth Works Sponsor<br />
AMy HiCKs JAsON sANdERs<br />
Jason <strong>San</strong>ders is an archivist and writer at the Pacific <strong>Film</strong><br />
Archive in Berkeley. As a journalist he has covered film<br />
festivals such as Rotterdam, Toronto, New York and Hawaii<br />
for publications including <strong>Film</strong>maker Magazine, Cinema<br />
Scope, Release Print and <strong>International</strong> Documentary.<br />
He is also a writer for film festivals around North America,<br />
including the Tribeca, Miami, Seattle and SFIFF, and is the<br />
editor of the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> Asian American <strong>International</strong><br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> <strong>Program</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>.