Miami Film Festival Awards 2007
March 17th, 2007 by Andre Soares
2007 Miami Film Festival Awards
2007 Miami Film Festival: March 2–11, 2007
Marco Williams‘ Banished, which chronicles the post-Civil War expulsion of blacks from numerous communities across the United States, was chosen best documentary at this year’s Miami International Film Festival. The special jury prize in that category went to Carlos Bosch’s Septembers, about inmates taking part in a singing competition at a prison near Madrid.
In the dramatic categories, Francisco Vargas Quevedo’s Mexican drama The Violin received the top prize in the Ibero-American competition, while Andrea Arnold’s Scottish thriller Red Road took top honors in the World category.
El Violín depicts the tensions between Mexican peasants and that country’s military in the Guerrero region. Last year, it was chosen best Latin American film at Brazil’s Gramado Film Festival.
Earlier this year, Red Road earned Andrea Arnold a BAFTA award for (behind-the-cameras) British newcomer of 2006. The thriller also won the International Critics’ FIPRESCI award at the Miami festival.
Documentary Features - World & Ibero-American Cinema Competition: Banished (USA) by Marco Williams
Special Jury Prize: Septiembres / Septembers (Spain) by Carlos Bosch
Dramatic Features - Ibero-American Cinema Competition: The Violin (El Violín) (Mexico) by Francisco Vargas Quevedo
Special Grand Jury Mention: Vasco Pedroso for the musical soundtrack in The Night of the Sunflowers (La noche de los girasoles) (Spain) by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo
Special Grand Jury Mention: Actress Carla Ribas for Alice’s House (A Casa de Alice) (Brazil) by Chico Teixeira
Special Grand Jury Mention: Paraguayan Hammock (Hamaca Paraguaya) (Argentina / Paraguay / The Netherlands / Austria / France / Germany) by Paz Encina
Dramatic Features - World Cinema Competition: Red Road (Scotland) by Andrea Arnold.
Special Grand Jury Mention: Actress Bar Belfer for Someone to Run With (Mishehu larutz ito) (Israel) by Oded Davidoff.
Special Grand Jury Mention: Sonja (Germany) by Kirsi Marie Liimatainen.
FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) Prize: Red Road (Scotland) by Andrea Arnold
AUDIENCE AWARDS
World Dramatic Feature Competition: Sweet Mud (Adama Meshuga’at) (Israel) by Dror Shaul.
Ibero-American Dramatic Feature Competition: The Night of the Sunflowers (La noche del los girasoles) (Spain) by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo.
World & Ibero-American Documentary Feature Competition: To Play and To Fight (Tocar y luchar) (Venezuela) by Alberto Arvelo.
Latin America Caribbean FedEx Audience Award: Bluff (Colombia) by Felipe Martínez.
Heineken Red Star Award: Fish Dreams (Sonhos de Peixe) (Brazil / Russia / USA) by Kirill Mikhanovsky.
Documentary Features - World & Ibero-American Cinema Competition Jury: Cynthia López, Mike Maggiore and Rob Williams
Dramatic Features - Ibero-American Cinema Competition Jury: Tania Blanich, Bertha Navarro and Jim Stark
Dramatic Features - World Cinema Competition Jury: Raoul Peck, Christine Vachon and Bernardo Zupnik
FIPRESCI Jury: Sheila Johnston, Peter Keough and Josefina Sartora
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