2009 Tiburon (Calif.) Film Festival Awards
2009 Tiburon International Film Festival: March 19-27
Based on a novel by Josef Kopta, Filip Renc's Guard No. 47 tells the story of Josef Dousa, a railway guard and World War I veteran who hopes to forget all the horrors he witnessed in the battlefield by spending his time with his young wife in a lone-standing guard house. Peace, however, is not in store for him. One day he saves the life of a young man about to jump under a train; while recovering, the young man falls in love with Dousa’s wife.
Golden Reel Award for Best Film: Guard No. 47 from the Czech Republic
Best Director: Filip Renc for Guard No. 47
Best Actor: Nicke Lignell for Colorado Avenue from Finland
Best Actress: Lucia Siposova for Guard No. 47
Best Documentary: Final Image directed by Andres Habegger from Argentina
Best Cinematography: Karel Fairaisl for Guard No. 47 from Czech Republic
Humanitarian Award: Familiar Voices by Danny Mendoza from Canada
Best Musical: Paraiba My Love by Bernard Robert-Charrue from Switzerland
Best Score: South of the Moon by Antonio DiVerdis from Canada
Best Short: Directions by Kasimir Burgess from Australia
Best Music Video: License to Love by Steve Gatlin from US
Best Dance Short Film: Nora by Alla Kovgan & David Hinton from Mozambique
Best Animation: Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley from US
Best Short Animation: Disbelief Will Save Your Soul by Samuel Weikopf from Germany
Best Sports Film: Lift by Anthony Green from US/France
Federico Fellini Award: Joe Chow for for Seventeen from China
Orson Welles Award: Jonathan Lawton for Jackson from US
Best Experimental Film: Colour Test.6 by Gerd Conradt from Germany
Best Student Film: The Fenceline by Brian Rasmussen from US
Best Comedy: The Grapes by Tomáš Barina from Czech Republic
Best Children's Film: The Map Reader by Harold Brodie from New Zealand
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Guard No. 47 is a good movie.