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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>.

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