2024 NARRATIVE GRANT AWARD WINNERS

Behind the Horizon Line – Chisato Hughes, Director, Writer, and Producer. *Saul Zaentz Creative Vision Award
Be Here Now – Chi Chi Castillo and Lauren Melton, Co-Directors, Writers and Producers. *Saul Zaentz Award
Freyr – David Telles, Director, Yvan Iturriaga, Producer. *Bianca Beyrouti Legacy Award
Niki, Tomi, Beto – Jon Ayon, Director, Writer.
The Other Side – Erik Philip, Director.
Camino – Florencia Manovil, Director, Writer.

2024 DOCUMENTARY GRANT AWARD WINNERS

The Invisible Valley – Elivia Shaw, Director. *2024 Saul Zaentz Award
Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone – Ken Paul Rosenthal, Director and Producer. *2024 Al Bendich Award
Becoming Us – Loi Ameera Almeron, Producer, Eli Hiller, Director. *Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Elevate Award
Time Hunter – Daniel Chein, Co-Director, Mushiva, Co-Director, David Felix Sutcliffe, Producer. *Saul Zaentz Creative Vision Award
All We Carry – Cady Voge, Director, Rachel Clara Reed, Editor and Co-Producer, Laura Pilloni, Producer, Laura Tatham, Producer.
As You Choose – Elly Schmidt-Hopper, Director, Producer, Joe Barnett, Director of Photography.
Burrocracy – Asali Echols, Director, George Csicsery, Producer, Kat McLain, Cinematographer.
Cabras y Chivas – Palmer Morse, Co-Director, Nick Stone Schearer, Co-Director, Catalina Luna, Producer and Translator.
Contamination – Ariel Ritchin, Director and Producer, Zahra Rasool, Producer.
Existimos en la Memoria – Darian Woehr, Director, Hailey Sadler, Producer – Produced by The Home Collective.
Fog Eaters – Kyle Baker, Director and Producer, Produced by Mimetic Films.
Outcry: Alchemists of Rage – Clare Major, Director and Producer, Whitney Bradshaw, Producer, Rivkah Beth Medow, Producer, Jen Rainin, Producer.
Plant Life – Brett Marty and Josh Izenberg, Co-Creators.
Post-Atlantic: The Art of Dewey Crumpler – Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, Co-Directors, Co-Producers.
Sally! – Deborah Craig, Ondine Rarey, Jörg Fockele
The Aunties (working title) – Pallavi Somusetty, Director, Prerana Thakurdesai, Producer.
The Strike – JoeBill Muñoz, Director/Producer, Lucas Guilkey, Director and Producer.
Untitled Gus Newport film project – Leah Mahan, Co-Director and Producer, Damien Durr, Co-Director.
Women Who Ride – Jessica Jones, Director, Debra Wilson, Producer.

STUDENT FILMS

Juvenile Lifers – Shadeed Wallace-Stepter, Director and Producer – Berkeley City College student.
(M)otherhood – Maggie Fuller, Director and Producer, Jule Sophie Hermann, Director and Cinematographer – UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Unconditional – Danica Simonet, Director and Co-Producer, Albert Gregory, Co-Producer and Director – UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
When the Smoke Clears – Misha Schwarz and Maarya Zafar, Co-Creators – UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
This is Not a Climate Film – Hana Beach and Beki San Martin, Co-Creators – UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.