Since 2020, the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle has served as the official jury for the Outstanding First Narrative Feature Award at the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameli). This distinction is presented annually to an exemplary debut narrative feature, recognizing a significant emerging voice in LGBTQ+ cinema. The recipients to date are as follows:
- 2025: The Nature of Invisible
Things (A Natureza das Coisas
Invisíveis | Brazil/Chile 2025 | in Portuguese |
90 min | dir. Rafaela Camelo) - 2024: Lucky, Apartment
(럭키, 아파트 | South
Korea 2024 | in Korean | 96 min. | dir. Garam Kangyu) - 2023: Big Boys (USA 2023 | 90
min. | dir. Corey Sherman) - 2022: So Damn Easy Going (Så
jävla easy going | Sweden/Norway 2022 | in
Swedish/German | 91 min. | dir. Christoffer
Sandler) - 2021:
- Language Lessons (USA 2021 | in
Spanish/English | 91 min. | dir. Natalie Morales)
- Firebird ( 2021 | UK/Estonia 2021 |
107 min. | dir. Peeter Rebane)
- Language Lessons (USA 2021 | in
- 2020: Two of Us (Deux |
France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2019 | in French/German | 99
min. | dir. Filippo Meneghetti)