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2011 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS  E-mail
Friday, 29 April 2011 05:14

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The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City. The Festival runs through May 1, 2011.

The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 21 countries. Best New Director prizes were awarded for both narrative and documentary films, selected from all feature films by a first-time director throughout the program.  Awards were also given for the best narrative short, best documentary short and student visionary films in the short film competitions. This year’s Festival included 93 features and 60 short films from 40 countries.

This year the Festival introduced new annual awards in the narrative competition for Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay, and in the documentary competition for Best Editing. Also announced at the awards were the Tribeca (Online) Film Festival feature and short film winners selected by the online audience. The winner of the Heineken Audience Award, determined by audience votes throughout the Festival, will be announced on April 30.

Screenings of all winning films will take place throughout the final day of the Festival, May 1, at various venues. Specific times and ticketing information are available on the Festival website, www.tribecafilm.com.

Following is a list of  the winners and their awards:

World NARRATIVE COMPETITION CATEGORIES:


  • The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – She Monkeys (Apflickorna), 

  • Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film – Ramadhan “Shami” Bizimana

  • Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film – Carice van Houten

  • Best Cinematography in a Narrative Feature Film – Luisa Tillinger, Artificial Paradises (Paraisos Artificiales)

  • Best Screenplay for a Narrative Feature Film – Jannicke Systad Jabobsen, Turn Me On, Goddammit (Få meg på, for faen)

BEST NEW NARRATIVE DIRECTOR:


  • Best New Narrative Director – Park Jungbum, writer and director of Journals of Musan (Musan Il-gi)

    • Special Jury Mention – Kivu Ruhorahoza, writer and director of Grey Matter (Matière  Grise).

World DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION CATEGORIES:


  • Best Documentary Feature – Bombay Beach, directed by Alma Har’el (USA, Israel).

  • Best Editing in a Documentary Feature – Purcell Carson, Semper Fi: Always Faithful (USA).
BEST NEW DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR COMPETITION:

  • Best New Documentary Director – Pablo Croce for Like Water, (USA). 
    • Special Jury Mention – Michael Collins, director of Give Up Tomorrow (UK, USA).

Short Film Competition Categories:


  • Best Narrative Short – Man and Boy, directed by David Leon and Marcus McSweeney, written by David Leon and Rashid Rasaq (UK).

  • Best Documentary Short – Incident in New Baghdad, written and directed by James Spione (US).
    • Special Jury Mention – Guru, written and directed by Jonathan VanBallenberghe (USA).

  • Student Visionary Award – Rooms, written and directed by Joanna Jurewicz (USA).

    • Special Jury Mention: Eva – Working Title, written and directed by Dor Fadlon (Israel)

TRIBECA (ONLINE) FILM FESTIVAL CATEGORIES:


  • Tribeca (Online) Film Festival Best Feature Film: Donor Unknown, directed and written by Jerry Rothwell (UK).

  • Tribeca (Online) Film Festival Best Short Film: Dungeon Master, directed by Shiloh & Rider Strong (UK).

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