Leeds Film Festival Awards 2006

2006 Leeds Film Festival Awards

2006 Leeds Film Festival: November 2-12, 2006

The 20th Leeds International Film Festival's Golden Owl winner for best feature film was Guillaume Malandrin's Ça m'est égal si demain n'arrive pas / I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes, a Belgian drama about an ex-con (co-screenwriter Jacky Lambert) who decides to take his son (Robin Weerts), now living with another family, on a vacation trip. Special mention was given to Mohamed Al Daradji's British-Dutch-Iraqi co-production Ahlaam / The Dreams. Reportedly based on true events, Ahlaam portrays the events leading up to, and the aftermath of, the 2003 invasion of Iraq as seen through the eyes of the occupants of a mental hospital
in Baghdad.

The Golden Owl Award

Winner: Ça m'est égal si demain n'arrive pas / I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes (Dir. Guillaume Malandrin, Belgium)

Special Mention: Ahlaam / The Dreams (Dir. Mohamed Al Daradji, UK / Iraq / Netherlands)

Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition

Winner: Bhai Bhai (Dir. Olivier Klein, France)

Special Mention: Avatar (Dir. Lluís Quílez, Spain)

Special Mention: Eût-elle été criminelle… / Even If She Had Been a Criminal (Dir. Jean-Gabriel Périot, France)

World Animation Award

Winner: Dream and Desires: Family Ties (Dir. Joanna Quinn, UK)

Special Mention: Never Like the First Time (Dir. Jonas Odell, Sweden)

Special Mention: Maestro (Dir. Geza M. Toth, Hungary)

Silver Méliès Award

Feature Film: Isolation (Dir. Billy O' Brien, Ireland / UK)

Short Film: Home Video (Dir. Ed Boase, UK)

This award is part of the European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals and the winners will go on to compete for the Golden Méliès at the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival on 16th September 2007.

Yorkshire Short Film Award

Private Life (Dir. Abbe Robinson, UK)

Golden Owl Jury: Jono Stevens – co-founder of Diffusion Pictures, a new independent UK film distribution company; Matt Bochenski – Editor of national movie magazine Little White Lies; Miguel Kohan – Director

Jury for the Louis Le Prince Short Film Award and the World Animation Award: Nic Wistreich – co-founder and publisher of Netribution.co.uk; Michael Lynch – Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at Southampton Solent University; Dr. Ian Macdonald – Research Director, Louis Le Prince Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television, University of Leeds

Silver Méliès Award Jury: Chris Smith – Director of Creep & Severance; Nigel Floyd – Journalist; Harvey Fenton – Founder of FAB Press

Yorkshire Short Film Award Jury: Amy Hughes – Editor of Northern Exposure and Arts Editor of The Leeds Guide; Ian McMillan – Poet and Broadcaster; David Browne – Secretary of the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Centre

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