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GUESTS AT THE FESTIVAL
Actors | Award Recipients | Cinematographers | Composers | Editors | Directors
Documentary Subjects | Jurors | Musicians | Panelists | Producers | Screenwriters
Other Notable Guests
All information is subject to change. This page will be updated regularly.
Actors
Sam Child, The Violent Kind
Patricia Clarkson, Cairo Time
Thomas Dekker, All About Evil
Ryan Dillon, Littlerock
Trieste Kelly Dunn, Cold Weather
Joe Egender, The Violent Kind
Ashley Fink, All About Evil
Anthony Fitzgerald, All About Evil
Matt Fling, Littlerock
Mariano Goldgrob, Littlerock
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Sierra Leoni, Littlerock
Natasha Lyonne, All About Evil
Kate Mara, happythankyoumoreplease
Markiss McFadden, Littlerock
Atsuko Okatsuka, Littlerock
Christina Prousalis, The Violent Kind
Jade Ramsey, All About Evil
Nikita Ramsey, All About Evil
Jason Ritter, Morning
Mink Stole, All About Evil
Brett Tinnes, Littlerock
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Morning
Cory Zacharia, Littlerock
Award Recipients
Walter Salles, Founder's Directing Award
Robert Duvall, Peter J. Owens Award
James Schamus, Kanbar Award
Roger Ebert, Mel Novikoff Award
Don Hertzfeldt, Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award
Cinematographers
João Atala, Meanwhile
Andrew Reed, Cold Weather
Composers
John Adams, I Am Love
Aslak Doerum, Still Birds
Bruce Fowler, Seducing Charlie Barker
Silas Hite, Invention of Dr. Nakamats
Jose Huezo, What is Green?
Juan Santiago, What is Green?
Curators
Arline Klatte, Porchlight: True Stories from the Frontiers of International Filmmaking
Beth Lisick, Porchlight: True Stories from the Frontiers of International Filmmaking
Directors
Samina Akbari, The Visitors
Mitchell Altieri, The Violent Kind
Marcos Andrade, Transcending Lynch
Dominic Angerame, Soul of Things
Lucy Bailey, Mugabe and the White African
Sam Ball, Joann Sfar Draws from Memory
Rodrigo Blaas, Alma
Jim Capobianco, Leonardo
David Cerf, Utopia in Four Movements
Patric Chiha, Domain
Daniel A. Citron, Alisha
Andrei Dascalescu, Constantin and Elena
Sonya Di Rienzo, Translator
Sara Eliassen, Still Birds
Lixin Fan, Last Train Home
Phil Flores, The Violent Kind
Janie Geiser, Ghost Algebra
Amy Glazer, Seducing Charlie Barker
Jon Goldman, Diplomacy
Pedro González-Rubio, Alamar
Debra Granik, Winter's Bone
Joshua Grannell, All About Evil
Sam Green, Utopia in Four Movements
Carter Gunn, Colony
Tanya Hamilton, Night Catches Us
John J. Healey, Practice of the Wild
Roberto Hernández, Presumed Guilty
Jonn Herschend, Embrace of the Irrational
Tim Hetherington, Restrepo
Andre Hines, What Is Green?
Nader Takmil Homayoun, Tehroun
Babak Jalali, Frontier Blues
Vimukthi Jayasundara, Between Two Worlds
Jean Pierre Jeunet, Micmacs
Danielle Katvan, Laundry
Aaron Katz, Cold Weather
Callie Khouri, A Conversation with Callie Khouri
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Air Doll
Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright (Outback)
Kerry Laitala, Afterimage: A Flicker of Life
Micael Langer, Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
Ounie Lecomte, Brand New Life
Vitor Leite, Meanwhile
Raphael Linden, Portrait
Janis Crystal Lipzin, De Luce 1: Vegetare
Jeff Malmberg, Marwencol
Claudio Manoel, Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
Samuel Maoz, Lebanon
Lucas Marcheggiano, Peddler
Lucas Martell, Pigeon Impossible
Ross McDonnell, Colony
Ruba Nadda, Cairo Time
Vincenzo Natali, Splice
Marisol Navarro, What Is Green?
Andrei Nekrasov, Russian Lessons
Leland Orser, Morning
Mike Ott, Littlerock
Rigoberto Perezcano, Northless
Rusudan Pirveli, Susa
Laura Poitras, Oath
Richard Press, Bill Cunningham New York
Josh Radnor, happythankyoumoreplease
Joăo Pedro Rodrigues, To Die Like a Man
Jay Rosenblatt, Darkness of Day
Walter Salles, Linha de Passe
Che Sandoval, You Think You’re the Prettiest, but You Are the Sluttiest
Aaron Schneider, Get Low
Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Invention of Dr. Nakamats
Matt Schuman, Me Time
Marcia Scott, Bolinas
Alexander Smallridge, Evening of Passion
Liu Soung, Yellow Sheep River
Jason Spingarn-Koff, Life 2.0
Ricki Stern, Joan Rivers—A Piece of Work
Harriet Storm, Kaden Later
Francis Sudaria, What Is Green?
Annie Sundberg, Joan Rivers—A Piece of Work
Joel Vanzeventer, Moon-Shoes
Chloe Villegas, Portrait
Derek Waters, Drunken Evening with Derek Waters and Wholphin
Eric Wen, Blink Another Day
Whang Cheol-mean, Moscow
Christina Yao, Empire of Silver
William Yarbrough, Escargots
David Zellner, Fiddlestixx
Documentary Subjects
Jim Harrison, Practice of the Wild
Reggie Mack, Mr. Mack's Kitchen
Joan Rivers, Joan Rivers—A Piece of Work
Gary Snyder, Practice of the Wild
Editors
Zviadi Alkhanaidze, Susa
Jurors
Robert Abele, Juror, Golden Gate Awards Shorts
Velvy Appleton, Juror, Kids & Family
Allison Cleary, Juror, Youth Works
Kelly Duane, Juror, Golden Gate Awards Shorts
Kristin Farr, Juror, Kids & Family
Dayna Goldfine, Juror Golden Gate Awards
Eugene Hernandez, Juror, Golden Gate Awards
Lisa Kennedy, Juror, New Directors
Jane Mauchly, Juror, Kids & Family
Jim McKay, Juror, New Directors
Kento Mizuno, Juror, Youth Works
Paul Sturtz, Juror, Golden Gate Awards
Jacques Thelemaque,Juror, Golden Gate Awards Shorts
Christopher Upham, Juror, Youth Works
Ian Wallace, Juror, Youth Works
Musicians
T Bone Burnett, Musician, Conversation with T Bone Burnett
Dennis Cronin, Musician, Utopia in Four Movements
Todd Griffin, Musician, Utopia in Four Movements
Catherine McRae, Musician, Utopia in Four Movements
Panelists
Paul Silverman, MFT, Logging Off: Is Online Gaming Addictive?
Cyn Skyberg, VP of Partnerships, Linden Labs, Logging Off: Is Online Gaming Addictive?
Philip Rosedale, Board of Directors, Linden Labs, Logging Off: Is Online Gaming Addictive?
Wagner James Au, Journalist, Logging Off: Is Online Gaming Addictive?
Producers
Jeff Allard, The Violent Kind
Saleah Askia, Laundry
Ronit Avni, Budrus
Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Bodyguards and Assassins
Sophie Constantinou, Joann Sfar Draws from Memory
Philip Gefter, Bill Cunningham New York
Michael Gibson, The Violent Kind
Xavier Grin, Animal Heart
Don Lewis, The Violent Kind
Carrie Lozano, Utopia in Four Movements
Brendan McFadden, Cold Weather
Layda Negrete, Presumed Guilty
Jeremy Platt, The Violent Kind
Aeschylus Poulos, The Translator
Charles Pugliese, Cairo Time
Christina Shellen, Marwencol
Frederick Thornton, Littlerock
Todd Traina, Morning
Norman Twain, My Dog Tulip
Nathan Zellner, Fiddlestixx
Screenwriters
Andre Pereira, Meanwhile
Other Notable Guests
James Caan, Presenter, Peter J. Owens Award
Roman Coppola, Presenter, Founder's Directing Award
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Interviewer, In Search of On the Road (a Work in Progress)
Philip Kaufman, Presenter, Novikoff Award
Elvis Mitchell, Interviewer, A Conversation with T Bone Burnett
Errol Morris, Presenter, Novikoff Award
Walter Murch, State Of Cinema Address
B. Ruby Rich, Interviewer, Kanbar Award
John Waters, Presenter, Kanbar Award
Terry Zwigoff, Presenter, Novikoff Award
Jason Reitman, Presenter, Novikoff Award
