SFFS and Kenneth Rainin Foundation announce $35k grant winners

Press release: San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced today the winners of the Fall 2009 $35,000 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants, given to two filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes being made in the San Francisco Bay Area. The two Fall 2009 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants went to Amanda Micheli for Tomboy and Jeff Zimbalist for The Scribe of Urabá. The jury noted, "These two stories stood above all others, and we passionately felt the need to support them both. Though extremely different, they both wrestle expertly with complex subjects that will be sure to entertain just as they will challenge and provoke."

The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, discrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time. The panelists who reviewed the finalists’ submissions are Peter Bratt, filmmaker, Chacras Filmworks and San Francisco Film Commissioner; Ellen Schneider, executive director, Active Voice; Jennifer Rainin, president, Kenneth Rainin Foundation; Michele Turnure-Salleo, director of filmmaker services, San Francisco Film Society; and Graham Leggat, executive director, San Francisco Film Society.

11.10.2009