Berkeley Film Foundation
***2012 Zaentz Award Winner***
***2011 Zaentz Award Winner***
***2010 Zaentz Award Winner***
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2012 Grant Winners
Jacob Kornbluth, Inequality for All **Saul Zaentz Award Winner**
Pratibha Parmar: Alice Walker, Beauty in Truth
Maureen Gosling, BAMAKO CHIC: Threads of Power, Color & Culture
Karina Epperlein, Finding the Gold Within
Suzanne LaFetra/David Collier, F-R-E-E
Deann Borshay Liem, Geographies of Kinship: The Korean Adoption Story
Cassandra Herrman, How To Make A Film About Africa
Paula Mozen, LIFE INTERRUPTED: Telling Breast Cancer Stories
Rick Goldsmith, Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw
Robert James, Revolutionary Sex
Delnaz Abadi, The Secret Fatwa
Avon Kirkland, TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY: The Life of Booker T. Washington
Benjamin Schuder, The Village of Peace
Peter Nicks, The Waiting Room
Kelly J. Richardson, Without A Net
Tory Stanton, Games People Play
Sean Mitchell, Witness 11
L. Jeffrey Moore, A Midsummer Nightmare: The Betrayal
Emily Bender, Half Full
Crescent Diamond, Performing Girl
Samina Hitch, Anarkali Blossoms
Rob Fatal, La Bamba 2: Hell Is A Drag
Alia Lundy, Bless You
2011 Grant Winners
Mary K. Flynn/Nina Goodby, Angel For Hire
Kate McLean, Pot Country
Marlene Morris, A New Color
Rob Richert, No One But Lydia
Aarin Burch, Roots and Wings
Arwen Curry, Worlds of Ursula K. LeGuin
Judith Ehrlich, The Mouse That Roared
Connie Field, Martin Luther King in Palestine
Lisa Fruchtman, Sweet Dreams
Robin Fryday, The Barber of Birmingham
Yusef Haroun, Amen
Dan Krauss, The Imagination of Jeremy Blake
Toby McLeod, Losing Sacred Ground
Marilyn Mulford/Aleixo Goncalves, An Imagined Country
Tamara Perkins, Life After Life
Denise Zmekhol, Earth Hero
2010 Grant Winners
Arielle Elizabeth (Krnich), Truth Takes Time
Eugene Corr, From Ghost Town to Havana
Jed Riffe, GERM WARS
Joel Pincosy, Goatherder
Judith Montell/Emmy Scharlatt, In the Image
Justine Shapiro, Our Summer in Tehran
Maureen Gosling/Chris Simon, No Mouse Music
Katie Gallaway/Kelly Duane de la Vega, Better this World
Rachel Antell, Common as Somali Tea
Deborah Kaufman/Alan Snitow, Between Two Worlds
Leah Mahan, Turkey Creek
Kelly J. Richardson, Without a Net
2009 Grant Winners
Yun Suh, City of Borders
Yoram Savion, T.U.R.F.
Scott Crocker, Ghost Bird
Pam Uzzell, Welcome to the Neighborhood
Marilyn Mulford, Archeology of Memory:Villa Grimaldi
Denise Zmekhol, Children of the Amazon
Helen De Michiel, Open Minds Open Mouths
Gail Dolgin/Robin Fryday, The Barber of Birmingham
Crescent Diamond, The Heretics
Nancy Kates, Regarding Susan Sontag
Rich Tejada-Flores, The Road to Chulumani
Karina Epperlein/John Knoop, Buenos Aires 1997: Awakening from Sorrow