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What are the specialties about International Film Festival held in San Francisco?

Each year International Film Festival is held in San Francisco. The 53rd International film festival is on from 22nd April to 6th May 2010.

The San Francisco Film Society has announced that James Schamus will be the recipient of the Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival. The Kanbar Award, which acknowledges the crucial importance of a script in the production of an exceptional film, will be presented to Schamus by John Waters at Film Society Awards Night Thursday, April 29 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel.

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The 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival was held last April 22-May 6, 2010.
This festival was founded in 1957 and is considered the longest running film festival in the Americas.

This is held each spring for two weeks. This festival showcases the cinematic discovery and innovation in the country's most beautiful city and featuring also some 150 films and live events with more than 100 filmmakers attending and almost two dozen awards presented for cinematic excellence. The festival draws an annual audience of more than 80,000.

This festival is highly anticipated by its loyal and passionate followers and highly supported too by the civic and community leaders. Aside from this it is greatly admired and adored by filmmakers and closely watched by industry professionals. This is also one of Bay Area's important evens.

This is deeply rooted in the strongest and finest tradition of appreciation of film both as an art from as a meaningful agent that will influence social events. This is also a cultural treasure for Bay Area audiences who embrace new ideas, compassionate humanity and world citizenship.

The SFIFF features bonanza of narrative feature films, live action and animated shorts, television and theatrical documentaries, experimental works and varied new digital media as well as smart lineup of industry panels and seminars, awards events, onstage tributes, retrospectives and the highly acclaimed Schools at the Festival programs.
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