The 64
th edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival, which ran April 9-18, has awarded over US$17,000 in cash prizes this past weekend to emerging and established filmmakers, including in its documentary categories.
The jury hands out a best documentary and best Bay Area documentary prize and this year’s doc feature jury included film producer and director Jameka Autry, film curator Mara Fortes, and program director at Chicken & Egg Pictures, Lucila Moctezuma.
The McBaine Documentary Feature winner was
Writing With Fire (pictured), from Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh (India). The filmmaker received a $3,500 cash prize.
In awarding this film, the jury stated, “For shedding light on the courageous work of Dalit women journalists as they build an independent news outlet from the ground up, for plunging us into the political reality of a nation in upheaval through the people who are its beating heart, for capturing the beautiful complicity between filmmakers and re