Tiburon International Film Festival Winners
by Andre Soares
The winners at the 5th Annual Tiburon (Calif.) International Film Festival were announced on March 17.
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’s 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.
Full list of winners at the 5th Annual Tiburon (Calif.) International Film Festival
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