Congratulations to our first year Audience Award winners as well as the official NGFF award winners.
Awards were presented August 31st by NGFF President Jaime Gonzalez, NGFF Festival Director Hatzune Aguilar, Mayor Kevin Johnson, Cinematographer Don McAlpine, and Filmmaker Will Bigham at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium.
NGFF 08′ AWARD WINNERS
Best Director-Narrative Short: Maya Anand, Anjali
Best Director-Animation: Joaquin [...]

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Thanks to everyone for coming :) 
Please check out the official press release… more pics coming soon!
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Directed by Laurent Le Gall

Every year, tens of thousands of participants migrate to the vacant heart of the wild west to celebrate this stupefying event by creating an ephemeral town, Black Rock City.
The Black rock desert, Nevada State, will be the decor of the festival. Without a doubt the experience will be extreme in this [...]

Directed by Travis Suhr, 19min
Jack (Jason Wiechert) & Sarah (Cassandra Clark) are not only lovers, they’re best friends. They spend every waking moment with each other, kissing, laughing, and loving. Jack decides that he wants to come off his medication for schizophrenia, and live in a world that might not be real, but at least [...]

Directed by Lynn Breedlove and Jen Gilomen, 15min
It’s a universal tale of love, addiction, and redemption in SF’s cool punk late 80’s, when every club on Valencia blasted a local band, everyone wore black, bike messengers were the new pony express, and strippers, their saloon girls.
Lynn Breedlove co-directs with Jen Gilomen, produces with Kami Chisholm, [...]