AWARDS/
CHRIS HOLTER AWARD
FOR HUMOR IN FILM
Beginning in 2007, the San Francisco International Film Festival has received an annual grant honoring the life and work of San Francisco native, teacher and filmmaker Chris Holter. The Chris Holter Humor in Film Award will provide a $2,500 cash prize to the filmmaker whose film (short, documentary or feature, in any genre or technique, including animation) paints the most humorous, heart-warming and life-affirming portrait of the human condition. The award will be decided by audience ballot and will be presented as part of the Golden Gate Awards.
Films eligible for the 2008 Chris Holter Humor in Film Award
Cochochi (Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán)
La France (Serge Bozon)
Glasses (Naoko Ogigami)
I Served the King of England (Jirí Menzel)
Just Like Home (Lone Scherfig)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Time to Die (Dorota Kedzierzawska)
Traveling with Pets (Vera Storozheva)
Two Ladies (Philippe Faucon)
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
Support for the Chris Holter Humor in Film Award is generously provided by a grant from the Metro Theatre Center Foundation, with funds from the Ora A. Holter Family Trust and the Chris Holter–Ron Merk Family Fund.
2007 Chris Holter Award winner
Pavel Giroud, The Silly Age (Cuba/Spain/Venezuela 2006)
