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BOF: 2007 San Francisco Int. Film Festival

Founded in 1957, the San Francisco International Film Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas, and this year celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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IONCINEMA.com presents: Best of Fests
50th San Francisco International Film Festival

When: April 26 to May 10, 2007
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Where: San Francisco, California – United States
Official Website: sffs.org/festival/index.html

What: Founded in 1957, the San Francisco International Film Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas, and this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. Held each spring for two weeks, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in the country's most beautiful city, featuring some 200 films and live events with more than 100 filmmakers in attendance and nearly two dozen awards presented for cinematic excellence. The Festival attracts an annual audience of more than 80,000.

Sections:
Big Nights, Tributes, Live & Onstage, Spotlight, New Directors, World Cinema, Documentaries, Shorts

Films:
Click here for complete list.
Opening Film – The Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese
Closing Film – La Vie en Rose by Olivier Dahan
Special Screening – Delirious by Tom DiCillo

Awards/Winners:
Peter J. Owens Award:
Film Society Directing Award: Spike Lee
Kanbar Award: Peter Morgan
Irving M. Levin Award: George Lucas
Mel Novikoff Award:
Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award:
SKYY Prize:
FIPRESCI Prize:
Golden Gate Awards:

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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