TRIBECA -2008 Awards
May 20th 2008 18:10
2008 The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature
Film: Let the Right One In (Lat den rätte komma in)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Prize: $25,000
Art Prize: Maternal Nocturne: Clearing Storm created by Stephen Hannock
Jury Comments: "For its mesmerizing exploration of loneliness and alienation through masterful reexamination of the vampire myth."
2008 Best New Narrative Filmmaker
Film: My Marlon and Brando (Gitmek)
Director: Hüseyin Karabey (Turkey, Dutch, UK).
Prize: $25,000 sponsored by American Express
Art Prize: Bonfire created by Ross Bleeckner
Jury Comments: "For its skillful blending of documentary style with a classic love story and ultimate creation of a truly modern and unlikely international heroine."
2008 Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film
Actor: Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello
Film: Somers Town
Director: Shane Meadows (UK)
Prize Business Elite Ticket voucher for anywhere Delta travels, sponsored by Delta Airlines.
Jury Comments: "For an extraordinary and exhilarating rendering of a friendship found, the Narrative Feature Jury is awarding the Best Actor prize to this magical team."
2008 Best Actress in a Narrative Feature
Actress: Eileen Walsh
Film: Eden
Director: Declan Recks (Ireland)
Prize: Two Business Elite Ticket Vouchers for anywhere Delta flies. Sponsored by Delta Airlines.
2008 Best Documentary Features
Film: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Director: Gini Reticker (USA)
Prize: $25,000
Art Prize: Liza Minnelli created by Timothy White
Jury Comments: "In a relentless pursuit of peace, the women of Liberia show us how community, motherly love, and perseverance can change the fate of a society. Pray the Devil back to Hell is a reminder that we have the power to say 'Enough!' to the atrocities of our world ."
2008 Best New Documentary Filmmaker
Film: Old Man Bebo
Director: Carlos Carcas (Spain)
Prize: $25,000 sponsored by American Express
Art Prize: Maquette for Primary Compass created by Don Gummer
Jury Comments: "We the jury feel that Carlos Carcas showed us that if you truly have art in your body and soul it will find its way out into the world. We applaud the filmmaker for bringing Old Man Bebo into your consciousness."
2008 New York Loves Film
Film: Zoned In
Director: Daniela Zanzotto (USA, UK)
Prize: $5,000 sponsored by the New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development
Art Prize: Table Odeon created by Donna Ferrato
Special Mention: Hotel Grammercy Park directed by Douglas Keeve (USA).
Jury Comments:"This was a challenging and spirited discussion with two clear favorites: both films are very different and the jury felt that both should get equal mention even though only one gets the prize. We thought Hotel Grammercy Park was a highly entertaining and moving story about a New York family and a New York institution coming to terms with a changing city, but in the end we felt Zoned In deserved the prize for having the bravery to tell a seemingly typical story that ends up revealing bold and difficult truths."
2008 Made in NY
Film: The Caller
Director: Richard Ledes (USA)
Prize: $5,000 sponsored by The City of New York Mayor's Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting
Art Prize: Nude on Guitar created by Ralph Gibson
Jury Comments: "The Caller superbly uses its New York locations - from the sleek midtown high-rises to the desolate Brooklyn Bridge piers - to create a chilling and finally stirring suspense movie; an unusual thriller whose mysterious plot finally exposes the mysteries of the heart."
2008 Best Narrative Short
Film: New Boy
Director: Steph Green
Prize: $5,000
Art Prize: Air created by Francesco Clemente
Jury Comments: "New Boy took us on a complete emotional journey. It was moving, funny, and powerful."
2008 Best Documentary Short
Film: Mandatory Service
Director: Jessica Habie
Prize: $5,000 sponsored by Edelman Studios
Art Prize: The Screamer created by John Alexander
Jury Comments: "Mandatory Service, a perspective of war and conflict from participants themselves. The Israeli's empathy for the Palestinians is not a perspective we glimpse too often in Western Media."
2008 Student Visionary Award
Film: Elephant Garden
Director: Sasie Sealy
Prize: Apple Mac Pro Desktop with a 15" Display and Final Cut Studio 2, sponsored by Apple
Jury Comments: Elephant Garden captured the "inner-life" of a beautiful young girl; her confusion as she becomes a young adult. Wonderful visual story telling and the performance of Kelley Mack is stellar."
2008 Cadillac Award
Winner to be chosen by the Audience and will be announces on WNBC-TV on Saturday, May 3rd. Winner receives $25,000 cash and the art award "Peripheral Drift Illusion" created by Ryan McGinness, as well as a trophy created by Cadillac.
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