Dror Shual's Sweet Mud and Sean Ellis' Cashback tied for the Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for best narrative feature at the 10th annual Bermuda International Film Festival, which concluded Saturday.
Jury member Carrie Fisher called Mud, the story of how a child copes with a mentally ill mother, "a very sad but hopeful film. It is a dark film with a light at the end of the tunnel." Jury member Richard Dreyfuss said of Cashback that "the film had a perfect whimsy that didn't try to become something that it was not."
Linda Hattendorf's The Cats of Mirikitani was named best documentary. Special mentions went to the films Living With Lew and Beyond the Call.
The short film jury, made up of actor Ben Newmark, director Vito Rocco and producer Tamara Tarasova, chose I Want to be a Pilot by Diego Quemada-Diez as the winner of the M3 Wireless Bermuda Shorts Award. Special mentions were given to My Backyard by Choy Aming and T.O.M. by Tom Brown and Daniel Gray.
BIFF audiences voted Robert Favreau's A Sunday in Kigali the Bacardi Limited Audience Choice Award winner.
Jury member Carrie Fisher called Mud, the story of how a child copes with a mentally ill mother, "a very sad but hopeful film. It is a dark film with a light at the end of the tunnel." Jury member Richard Dreyfuss said of Cashback that "the film had a perfect whimsy that didn't try to become something that it was not."
Linda Hattendorf's The Cats of Mirikitani was named best documentary. Special mentions went to the films Living With Lew and Beyond the Call.
The short film jury, made up of actor Ben Newmark, director Vito Rocco and producer Tamara Tarasova, chose I Want to be a Pilot by Diego Quemada-Diez as the winner of the M3 Wireless Bermuda Shorts Award. Special mentions were given to My Backyard by Choy Aming and T.O.M. by Tom Brown and Daniel Gray.
BIFF audiences voted Robert Favreau's A Sunday in Kigali the Bacardi Limited Audience Choice Award winner.
- 3/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Ioncinema.com presents: Best of Fests Tromsø International Film Festival When: January 16th to 21st, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 16, 2007'); Where: Location: Tromsø, NorwayOfficial Website: http://www.tiff.no/What: Tiff is a popular film festival for our audience, and at the same time an important meeting point for Norwegian and international film industry. TIFF07 will be Tromsø's 17th international film festival. Tromsø International Film Festival had in 2006 a total admission of 44 804. This makes Tiff Norway' largest festival.Accredited: No Film Line Up:Opening NightSPANDEXMAN - Bobbie Peers, 2007Winterland - Hisham Zaman, 2006Closing NightONCE In A Lifetime - John Dower, Paul Crowder, 2005Competition ProgramBORDERPOST - Rajko Grlic , 2006Born And Bred - Pablo Trapero , 2006Chronicle Of An Escape - Isreal Adrián Caetano, 2006Colossal Youth - Pedro Costa, 2006Family Ties - Kim Tae-Yong, 2006Glue - Alexis Dos Santos, 2005Gypo - Jan Dunn, 2005Longing - Valeska Grisebach, 2006Lucy - Henner Winckler, 2006Requiem -
- 1/13/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- The fifth annual Tribeca Film Festival celebrated a decidedly political and international selection of winners at its awards ceremony Saturday night, with three war-themed films taking top honors. Tristan Bauer's Argentine/Spanish Blessed by Fire (Iluminados por el fuego), the tale of a Falklands War soldier, won the Founders Award for best narrative feature, and Deborah Scranton's U.S. The War Tapes, featuring footage from U.S. soldiers in Iraq that presenter Ken Burns hailed for its "spellbinding brutality," took home the best documentary feature prize. The audience award went to Linda Hattendorf's The Cats of Mirikitani, the documentary tale of a homeless Japanese-American who lost family members in the Hiroshima bombings. Tribeca co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, actors Josh Lucas and Lucy Liu and New York film boosters Pat Kaufman and Katherine Oliver found the winners' names wrapped in giant fortune cookies, in synch with the event's Chinatown banquet hall locale, the Golden Bridge.
NEW YORK -- The fifth annual Tribeca Film Festival presented a decidedly political and international selection of winners at its awards ceremony Saturday night, with three war-themed films taking top honors. Tristan Bauer's Argentinian/Spanish Blessed by Fire (Iluminados por el Fuego), the tale of a Falklands War soldier, won the Founders Award for best narrative feature, and Deborah Scranton's American The War Tapes, featuring footage from U.S. soldiers in Iraq that presenter Ken Burns hailed for its "spellbinding brutality," took home the best documentary feature prize. The audience award went to Linda Hattendorf's The Cats of Mirikitani, the documentary tale of a homeless Japanese-American who lost family members in the Hiroshima bombings.
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