Toronto Film Festival Awards - 2006 Winners
by Andre Soares
"I really hope that this is not a dream and that I don’t wake up at film school," declared 29-year-old, Mexican-born director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde. "This festival is my first festival, it’s my first film. it’s my first everything." Monteverde’s American-made movie romance, Bella, has won the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which came to a close this evening.
In Monteverde’s feature-film début, Mexican pop idol Eduardo Verástegui and New Jersey-born Tammy Blanchard (best known for incarnating Judy Garland as a young woman in a 2001 TV film), play the couple whose lives are changed during the course of one day in New York City.
Gabriel Range’s controversial Death of a President (read more here), a fictional account of the assassination of U.S. president George W. Bush, received the International Film Critics’ prize.
The CityTV Award for Best Canadian feature film went to Noel Mitrani’s Sur la Trace d’Igor Rizzi, about a former professional soccer player who, following the death of his Quebecois girlfriend, leaves his native France for Montreal.
Monteverde’s quote is from Reuters / The Scotsman.
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