August Stephen Cinquegrana, filmmaker, 58

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - August Stephen Cinquegrana, one of San Francisco's most
respected filmmakers who was once nominated for an Academy Award, died Aug.
16 of cancer. He was 58.

Cinquegrana became an editor at KPIX-TV, where he earned the station an Emmy
award for his editing on the Patty Hearst kidnapping story.

Cinquegrana won an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker's Award in
1977, and used the $10,000 prize money to make ``Goodnight, Miss Ann,'' a
documentary about Los Angeles boxing clubs. The film earned him an Academy
Award nomination for best short documentary.

He worked closely with director Francis Ford Coppola at Zoetrope Studios and
directed several documentaries for PBS and HBO. His last documentary, ``The
Digital Divide,'' will be broadcast on PBS in January. The film discusses
the social consequences of the computer revolution.

Cinquegrana is survived by his wife Prudence, a daughter, two grandchildren,
two sisters and a brother.

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