Miami Film Festival Awards 2009

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2009 Miami Film Festival Awards

2009 Miami Film Festival: March 6-15, 2009

 

Michele Riondino, Elio Germano in The Past is a Foreign Land
Directed by Daniele Vicari, and adapted from attorney Gianrico Carofiglio’s novel by Vicari, Carofiglio, Francesco Carofiglio, and Massimo Gaudioso, Il Passato è una terra straniera / The Past is a Foreign Land stars Elio Germano as a brilliant but bored law student who, after crossings paths with a card shark (Michele Riondino), is lured into the dangerous world of fixed decks.

 

WORLD COMPETITION

Knight Grand Jury Prize: The Past is a Foreign Land (Il Passato È Una Terra Straniera) by Daniele Vicari, Italy

Best Director: Enrique Rivero, Parque Vía, Mexico

Best Actor: Michele Riondino, The Past is a Foreign Land (Il Passato È Una Terra Straniera) by Daniele Vicari, Italy

Best Supporting Actress: Olga Louzgina in Katia’s Sister (Het Zusje Van Katia) by Mijke de Jong, Netherlands

Audience Award: Kisses by Lance Daly, Ireland/Sweden

 

FIPRESCI AWARD

 Involuntary (De Ofrivilliga) by Ruben Östlund, Sweden

 

IBERO-AMERICAN COMPETITON

Knight Grand Jury PrizeHistorias Extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás, Argentina

Best Actress, Catarina Zaavera for The Maid (La Nana) by Sebastián Silva, Chile/Mexico

Special Jury Mention: Tony Manero by Pablo Larraín, Chile/Brazil

Special Jury Mention: Gasoline (Gasolina) by Julio Hernández Cordon, Guatemala

Audience Award: Nora’s Will (5 Dias sin Nora) by Mariana Chenillo, Mexico

 

DOX COMPETITON

Miami Dade College Grand Jury Prize: Shakespeare and Victor Hugo’s Intimacies (Intimidades de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo) by Yulene Olaizola, Mexico

Special Jury Mention for its poetic qualities: The Inheritors (Los Herederos) by Eugenio Polgovsky, Mexico

Special Jury Mention for the courage of the subject matter: Mental (Seishin) by Kazuhiro Soda, Japan/USA

Special Jury Mention for Cinematography: 16memories (16memorias) by Camilo Botero Jaramillo, Colombia

Audience Award: 16 memories (16memorias) by Camilo Botero Jaramillo, Colombia

 

SHORTS COMPETITION

Miami Dade College Grand Jury Prize: First Love (Elso Szerelem) by Ildikó Enyedi, Hungary

Runner Up: Sandpit#186 (Balastiera#186) by Adina Pintilie and George Chiper, Romania 

Best Performance: Carla Ribas in Day In Day Out (Cotidiano) by Joana Mariani, Brazil

Best Cinematography: Isi Sarfati for Land and Bread (Tierra y Pan) by Carlos Armella, Mexico

 

CUTTING THE EDGE COMPETITION

Winner: On War (De La Guerre) by Bertrand Bonello, France

Special Jury Mention: Beket by Davide Manuli, Italy

 

SCREENWRITER JORDAN ALEXANDER RESSLER AWARD

The Maid (La Nana) by Sebastián Silva, Chile/Mexico

 

INTERNATIONAL FILM GUIDE INSPIRATION AWARD

The Maid (La Nana) by Sebastián Silva, Chile/Mexico

 

FLORIDA FOCUS AWARDS

Miami Mini Film: Electric Revolution by Mark Moormann

Student High School Short Film: Mighty Deadly by Marcus Gonzalez

Special Jury Mention: Legacy: The Story of Miami High by Andre Benitez

Student College Student Film (tie): Suddenly the Sunrise by Jhonny Obando and The Man Who Was Bold by Michal Zebede

 

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