Bangkok Film Festival Awards 2006
2006 Bangkok Film Festival Awards
Deepa Mehta’s controversial Indo-Canadian production Water, which depicts the plight of Indian widows during the Gandhi era, has won the Golden Kinnaree for Best Film at the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival. In 2000, while making the film in India Mehta received death threats from Hindu radicals, and was thus forced to abandon production for several years. Five years later, she resumed working on the film in Sri Lanka. Water, a sizable box-office hit in Canada, has been nominated by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for nine Genies, including Best Film and Best Director.
Other winners at the Bangkok Festival were Best Director Park Chan-Wook for Chinjeolhan geumjassi / Lady Vengeance, Best Actor Presley Chweneyagae for his thug with a heart in the Academy Award nominated Tsotsi, and Best Actress Felicity Huffman for her (truly outstanding) performance as a pre-op transsexual in Transamerica.
Princess Ubol Rattana gave Catherine Deneuve the Lifetime Achievement Award. Deneuve took part in a Q&A session following a screening of one of her greatest films, Jacques Demy’s sublime 1964 musical Le Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Golden Kinnaree for Best Film: Water, by Deepa Mehta (Canada / India)
Best Director: Park Chan-Wook for Chinjeolhan geumjassi / Lady Vengeance (South Korea)
Best Actor: Presley Chweneyagae, Tsotsi (South Africa / UK)
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica (United States)
Best ASEAN Film: Hat mua roi bao lau / Bride of Silence by Doan Minh Phuong and Doan Thanh Nghia (Vietnam)
Best Documentary: Rize, David LaChapelle (United States)
Jamesan Best ASEAN Short Film: Under Construction, by Lee Hyung-Suk (South Korea)
New Voices Award: Las Mantenidas sin sueños / Kept and Dreamless, by Martin DeSalvo and Vera Fogwill (Argentina)
Jameson People’s Choice Award: Art of the Devil 2, by Kongkiat Khomsiri; Art Thamthrakul; Yosapong Polsap; Putipong Saisikaew; Isara Nadee; Pasith Buranajan; Seree Pongniti (Thailand)
Jury Mention (in recognition of excellence): Anlat Istanbul / Istanbul Tales, Umit Unal; Kudret Sabanci; Elim Demirdelen; Yucel Yolcu; Omur Atay (Turkey)
Honorable Mentions: Ballets Russes, by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine (United States), and In the Shadow of the Palms, by Wayne Coles-Janess (Australia)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Catherine Deneuve
Honorary Award: Sombat Metanee
Golden Kinnaree for Contributions to Asian Cinema: Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J. Werner’s Fortissimo Films
Golden Kinnaree Jury: President – Fred Schepisi (Australia); Donald K. Ranvaud (UK / Italy), Pantham Thongsang (Thailand), Nancy Kwan (Hong Kong / UK), Charles Dance (UK), Julie Delpy (France)
FIPRESCI jury: Hubert Niogret (France), Andronika Matonova (Bulgaria ), Ranjanee Ratnavibhushana (Sri Lanka), Howard Feinstein (USA), Krisda Kerddee (Thailand)
Jury for New Voices: Nantakwang Sirasunthorn (Thailand), Susan López Aranda (Mexico), Denis Pregnolato (South Africa)
Jury for International Documentary: Thunska Pansittivorakul (Thailand), Tomas Arana (USA)
Jury for Short Films: Patana Chirawong (Thailand), Tomas Arana (USA)
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