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