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The San Diego International Film Festival is an independent film festival held annually in San Diego. The festival's top honorary award is the Gregory Peck Award for Cinematic Excellence that has been presented at the festival by the family of Gregory Peck since 2014. The festival also presents the Chris Brinker Award to first time directors
As of 2020, the San Diego International Film Festival is a qualifying festival for the Canadian Screen Awards. [ 17 ] In 2021, limited in-person screenings resumed at new venues including the Museum of Photographic Arts and The San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park , as well as the Catamaran Resort in Mission Bay . [ 18 ]
Special Presentations: “China Now: Independent Visions” featuring four film programs from works from the Beijing Independent Film Festival. [28] Audience Award: The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (Morgan Neville)
Its original name was the "Gregory Peck Excellence in the Art of Film Award." [4] In 2014, the family began presenting the award in San Diego where the actor was born, raised his family and where he founded La Jolla Playhouse. Since the DIFF was forced to close due to financial reasons in 2019, the award is presented exclusively at SDIFF. [5]
SDAFF found its inception in August 2000 when it was first organized as a fundraiser by the Asian American Journalists Association.After receiving numerous film entries, both domestically and internationally, and seeing sold out crowds at its inaugural festival, Lee Ann Kim, the founding director, saw the potential of making SDAFF an organizational entity of its own.
The 29th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 9, 2024. [1]The nominations were announced on December 6, 2024, with Dune: Part Two, directed by Denis Villeneuve, leading the nominations with twelve, followed by Conclave and Wicked with nine each, and Sing Sing with eight.
The GI Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on military and veteran experiences, held in San Diego, California. Films featured in the festival reveal the struggles, triumphs, and experiences of service members and veterans. The festival was held in Washington, D.C. from 2008 to 2018. Since 2018, it has been held in San Diego.
Awards have been divided into four major categories: critics' awards, voted on (usually annually) by a group of critics; festival awards, awards presented to the best film shown in a particular film festival; industry awards, which are selected by professionals working in some branch of the movie industry; and audience awards, which are voted ...