Amanda Micheli and Jeff Zimbalist winners of the Fall 2009 $35,000 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants
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San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced Amanda Micheli for Tomboy and Jeff Zimbalist for The Scribe of Urabá as the winners of the Fall 2009 $35,000 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants, given to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes being made in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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.”
WINNERS
Amanda Micheli is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker with over a decade of experience as both a director / producer and a cinematographer. She most recently co-directed La Corona, which premiered at Sundance in 2008 and was nominated for an Academy Award before airing on HBO. In 2004, she premiered Double Dare at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the audience award for documentary feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival and AFI Fest, among others. Her first film, Just for the Ride, won a student Oscar and an International Documentary Association Award and aired on PBS 1995. Her other director of photography and producer credits include Thin, Cat Dancers, Brave New Voices, 30 Days, My Flesh and Blood and The Flute Player. For more information visit runawayfilms.com.
Tomboy
Sixteen-year-old Ruby Ciaccio idolizes her father, Frank, a former NFL linebacker buried in debt and addicted to painkillers. Frank taught Ruby to throw like a boy, but expected her to grow into a lady. Against Frank’s will, Ruby joins an all-girl rugby team and must choose between pleasing her father and finding her true self. TOMBOY is a full-contact coming-of-age story about a girl struggling to invent her own definitions of family, sexuality, and courage.
Jeff Zimbalist is an Emmy Award-nominated writer, director and editor whose films such as Favela Rising have won more than 35 international film festival awards, have been broadcast on HBO, PBS, Channel 4 UK, ESPN and BET and have been theatrically distributed throughout the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia. He has produced documentaries on third world development issues for clients such as the UNDP, the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank. He is a Brown University graduate and 2006 Ford Foundation grantee. For more information visit favelarising.com.
The Scribe of Urabá
Based on real events, The Scribe of Urabá chronicles the rise of the Nobel Prize-nominated Peace Community movement in Latin America through the personal story of a 14-year-old Colombian girl whose father is murdered for being a union leader at a rural Colombian Coca-Cola bottling plant. The girl’s life collides with that of an African American public relations executive at Coca-Cola’s U.S. headquarters, who is assigned to ameliorate controversy around the violent union bust.
The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support work by local filmmakers as well as attract projects of the highest quality to the Bay Area, providing tangible encouragement and support to meaningful projects and benefiting the local economy. In addition to a cash grant, recipients will receive various benefits through the Film Society’s comprehensive and dynamic filmmaker services programs (sffs.org/filmmaker-services)
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