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GGA Competition | Narrative Features | How to Enter Golden Gate Awards Competition CRITERIA The Golden Gate Awards competition is accepting submissions in 11 categories. Entries must have been completed on or after January 1, 2008. Works that have played a multiday commercial theatrical run in the Bay Area or had any kind of media broadcast are not eligible to apply to non-television categories. The Festival requires a San Francisco Bay Area premiere of documentary features. The New Visions category is ONLY for experimental film and video in which personal expression and aesthetic exploration are the primary concerns. If the entry is inappropriate for New Visions, the Festival will reassign it to the proper category. Youth Works category submissions and college student submissions must include with the application a copy of a photo ID indicating proof of age or university enrollment at the time of production. Adult participation in Youth Works is limited to an advisory role. Productions partially financed by television companies intended for theatrical presentation may be entered in non-television categories. Works specifically financed and produced for broadcast must be entered in television categories. Premiere telecast of the entry must have been on or after January 1, 2008. Bay Area filmmakers are eligible for additional Bay Area awards given in recognition of the rich variety of work that has established Northern California as a center of independent production. Awards are presented to a documentary feature film and two short films which can be selected from the documentary, narrative, animated or experimental categories. To qualify for a Bay Area award, entries must have been made by a filmmaker who is a current resident of the San Francisco Bay Area (the area roughly from Monterey to Mendocino: postal zip codes 93901 to 95457). Rough cuts or works-in-progress are accepted and reviewed. However, filmmakers are urged to submit as close to the final cut as possible. The Festival will not accept new versions of an entry unless it is requested by the programming staff. All entrants will be notified of the Festival’s decision by the end of February. Official Selections are screened at the Festival, are eligible to compete for a Golden Gate Award and will be listed in the Festival Program Guide which is circulated worldwide to distributors, film commissions, educators and the media. JURIED AWARDS International juries view the Official Selections during the Festival and select the 15 Golden Gate Award winners, 11 of which receive a cash prize. Awards are given for excellence in form and content. Winners and cash prizes are announced and honored at the Golden Gate Awards celebration. Additional prizes of goods and services have included Final Cut Pro software from Apple, lab services from Efilm and film stock certificates from Eastman Kodak. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes the San Francisco International Film Festival as a qualifying festival for the short films (live action and animated) competitions of the 81st annual Academy Awards. Note: Previous television or Internet broadcast will disqualify a film from Oscar consideration. CATEGORIES AND GOLDEN GATE AWARDS PRIZES Juries make one award per category. * All short film and New Visions works by Bay Area residents are also eligible for the Bay Area Short First Prize of $2,000 and Second Prize of $1,500.
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