2006 Tiburon Film Festival Awards
2006 Tiburon Film Festival: March 9–17, 2006.
Li Shaohong's Sheng si jie / Stolen Life, the story of a young Chinese woman whose new life in the big city turns sour rather quickly, was chosen Best Film, while the Best Director award went to Vladan Nikolic for Love, a non-linear tale about a Yugoslav hit man, his former lover, and her police-officer boyfriend.
The Best Actor and Best Actress winners were, respectively, Monty Lapica, as a drug addict in Self Medicated, and Marzia Tedeschi for her performance in the social drama Il Pane nudo / For Bread Alone.
The Best Documentary was Wayne Coles-Janess' Australian-Iraqi co-production In the Shadow of the Palms – Iraq, which, according to the festival's site, is "the only documentary filmed in Iraq prior to, during and after 'liberation.'"
The Humanitarian Award was given to Michele Stephenson's Faces of Change, in which " five activists from five different continents send off unique video dispatches from their respective corners of the world, telling stories of their close encounters with discrimination, and exposing the universal commonalities of their experiences."
The festival also included tributes to directors Paul Mazursky and Joe Dante.
Golden Reel for Best Film: Sheng si jie / Stolen Life, by Li Shaohong (China)
Best Director: Vladan Nikolic, for Love (USA/Yugoslavia)
Best Actor: Monty Lapica, for Self Medicated (USA)
Best Actress: Marzia Tedeschi, for Il Pane nudo / For Bread Alone (Italy/Algeria/Morocco)
Best Documentary: In the Shadow of the Palms – Iraq, by Wayne Coles-Janess (Australia/Iraq)
Humanitarian Award: Faces of Change, by Michele Stephenson
(USA/Brazil/India/Mauritania/Bulgaria/South Africa)
Best Musical Documentary: Karoo Kitar Blues, by Liza Key (South Africa)
Best Short: Before Dawn, by Balint Kenyeres (Hungary)
Best Music Video: Sign of the Times by Ole Brereton (USA)
Best Animation: The Legend of the Scarecrow, by Marco Besas (Spain)
Best Short Music: West Bank Story, by Ari Sandel (Israel)
Best Sports Film: Super Champion Funzone, by Ty Evans, Aaron Meza, Spike Jonze, Cory Weincheque (USA)
Federico Fellini Award: Karim Quelhadj, for Parabola (Belgium)
Orson Welles Award: Jeff Morris, for You Did What? (USA)
Best Experimental Film: Between You and Me, by Patryk Rebisz (USA)
Best Student Film: Second Round, by Phillip Briggs (USA)
Best Comedy: Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo, by Les Claypool (USA)
Best Children's Film: Mickybo and Me, by Terry Loane (Ireland)
Audience Award: The Breakup Artist, by Vincent Rubino (USA)
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