DEAN HAMER + JOE WILSON, “KAPAEMAHU”
Filmmakers Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson accept the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Short for Kapaemahu.
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SDFF 2021 Filmmaker Acceptance Speeches
MARLÉN VIÑAYO, “UNFORGIVABLE”
Filmmaker Marlén Viñayo accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Short for Unforgivable, in which a ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence in a Salvadoran evangelical prison, where he is guilty not only of his crimes, but of being gay.
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PELIN ESMER, “QUEEN LEAR”
Filmmaker Pelin Esmer accepts the SDFF 2021 Jury Award for Best Feature for Queen Lear, in which a theater group comprised of peasant women take their performance of King Lear on the road in rural Turkey.
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DAVID BARAM, “ONE ALL THE WAY”
Filmmaker David Baram accepts the SDFF 2021 Audience Award for Best Short for One All The Way, in which three elderly Jersey guys search for the world’s greatest Hot Texas Weiner and discover what happened to their hometown.
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JØRGEN LORENTZEN, “A GIFT FROM GOD”
WINNER: 2021 AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST FEATURE A GIFT FROM GOD Nefise Özkal Lorentzen + Jørgen Lorentzen2019, Norway + Turkey, 61 mins. Filmmaker Jørgen Lorentzen introduces the 2019 film he co-directed with Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, A Gift From God for its SDFF 2021 screening. A Gift From Godinvestigates the 2016 failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which
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