Leeds Film Festival Awards - 2007
by Andre Soares
21st Leeds Film Festival Awards - 2007
The 21st Leeds International Film Festival was held between November 7-18, 2007.
Tony Stone’s Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America was voted best film in competition at the 21st Leeds Film Festival. "This extraordinary film goes all out with its regressive strategies," reads the jury’s comments, "doing as much as possible to achieve as little as possible. Extending cinema’s existing parameters, we are challenged to question all assumptions we may bring to this film, including whether it is even a film at all. Whilst this seemingly simple maximalist spectacular remains bravely and resolutely indeterminable to the point of barely existing, it’s [sic] heroic and whole-hearted engagement with failure may be one of the most interesting and successful terrorist interventions in cinema we have yet seen. Huge. And yet hardly there." Hmm… Partially shot in Newfoundland, Severed Ways tells the story of two Norsemen who are separated from their tribesmen while on a 11th-century expedition in North America. The film’s soundtrack features both heavy metal and light opera.
Golden Owl Award 2007:
Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America by Tony Stone
Special Mention:
Noise by Matthew Saville and The Man from the Embassy by Dito Tsintsadze
Best Short Film
Aie by Virginie Gourmel
Special Mention:
Coco-Nuts and Dad
Best Animated Short Film:
Tyger
Melies d’Argent Award: (feature film)
The Orphanage (El Orfanato) - Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona - Mexico/Spain
Special Jury Mention:
Hyena (Hiena) - Dir. Grzegorz Lewandowski, Poland
Melies d’Or Nomination: (short film)
Machine (Maquina) - Dir. Gabe Ibanez - Spain
Special Jury Mention:
Moment of Glory (Moment de Gloire) - Dir. Hendrik Moonen, Belgium
The Golden Owl Jury: Laurin Federlein, Director; Rocio Freire-Bernat, Distributor of world cinema in Britain; Christopher Thomas, filmmaker and also Director of the Institute for New Cinema.
Leeds International Film Festival Site
Leeds Film Festival Awards: 2006 2007
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
French Film Academy’s César 2007
German Film Academy’s Lola Awards 2007
Thessaloniki Film Festival Awards 2007
Stockholm Film Festival Awards 2007
Moscow Film Festival Awards 2007
Mar del Plata Film Festival Awards 2007
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2007
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