SFIFF unveils New Directors, GGA

The festival will award close to $40,000 in total cash prizes this year.

The New Directors Prize of $10,000 will go to a narrative first feature that exhibits “a unique artistic sensibility and deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible.”

The GGA documentary winner will receive $10,000 and the GGA Bay Area documentary feature winner will receive $5,000.

The SFIFF is scheduled to run from April 24-May 8.

The 2014 New Directors Prize (Narrative Feature) Competition entries are:

The Amazing Catfish (pictured, Mexico), dir Claudia Sainte-Luce
The Blue Wave (Turkey-Germany-Netherlands-Greece), dir Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan
Difret (Ethiopia), dir Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
The Dune (France-Israel), dir Yossi Aviram
History Of Fear (Argentina-France-Germany-Uruguay-Qatar), dir Benjamin Naishtat
Manos Sucias (US-Colombia), dir Josef Wladyka
Of Horses And Men (Iceland-Germany), dir Benedikt Erlingsson
Salvation Army (Morocco), dir Abdellah Taia
South Is Nothing (Italy-France), dir Fabio Mollo
Trap Street (China), Vivian Qu
White Shadow (Italy-Germany-Tanzania), dir Noaz Deshe

The 2014 Golden Gate Awards Documentary Feature Competition entries are:

Coast Of Death (Spain), dir Lois Patino
The Last Season (US), dir Sara Dosa
The Overnighters (US), dir James Moss
Return To Homs (Syria-Germany), dir Talal Derki
Soul Food Stories (Bulgaria-Finland), dir Tonislav Hristov
Stop The Pounding Heart (US-Italy-Belgium), dir Roberto Minervini
Three Letters From China (Switzerland), dir Luc Schaedler
We Come As Friends (France-Austria), dir Hubert Sauper.