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05/11/2010

SF Film Society Awards Post-Production Grants to Two Cinereach Projects

On May 5th The San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) announced its Golden Gate award winners and juried prize/grant recipients. Here’s the full announcement.

Still courtesy of Maryam Keshavarz

Image courtesy of Maryam Keshavarz

Two members of the Cinereach family have been awarded San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, which recognize narrative films that tackle social justices themes from unique, personal perspectives, and take an artistic approach.

Cinereach grantee Circumstance, a fiction feature film by Maryam Keshavarz, received $50,000 towards post-production. Set in Iran, Circumstance is about three childhood friends as they grapple with sexuality, love and friendship during a tumultuous adolescence.

Still courtesy of Court 13

Image courtesy of Court 13

Beasts of the Southern Wild, which Cinereach Productions is producing with New Orleans-based Court 13, also received $50,000. ‘Beasts’ draws inspiration from the dissolving bayou landscape and is driven by collaboration with communities living on the edge of the Louisiana Delta.


Image courtesy of Dragonslayer

Image courtesy of Dragonslayer

Cinereach Grantee Dragonslayer, a documentary film by Tristan Patterson, was under consideration to receive the SFFS/Film Arts Foundation grant, offered this year only (in honor of Film Arts Foundation’s 32-year legacy of support for nonfiction filmmaking) and received Honorable Mention.

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