Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2009 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 6-19, 2008
 

Departures by Yojiro Takita
 

AUDIENCE AWARDS
Best Narrative Feature: Departures (Japan) directed by Yojiro Takita
Best Documentary Feature: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (USA) directed by Eric Bricker
 
CRITICS AWARDS (foreign-language films submitted for the 2009 Academy Awards)
FIPRESCI Prize: Revanche, directed by Götz Spielmann
FIPRESCI Award for Best Actor: Natar Ungalaaq, The Necessities of Life (Canada) directed by Benoît Pilon
FIPRESCI Award for Best Actress: Martina Gusman, Lion’s Den (Argentina) directed by Pablo Trapero
 
New Voices / New Visions Award: Hooked (Romania/France) directed by Adrian Sitaru
Special Jury Mention: Rain (Bahamas), directed by Maria Govan
John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature (Narrative or Documentary): Amin Matalqa for Captain Abu Raed (Jordan/USA)
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by Deborah Arthur | January 18, 2009   
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Palm Springs 2009: Premieres

Hooked by Adrian Sitaru

PRESS RELEASE
PREMIERES
The Festival will offer a selection of 77 premieres of highly anticipated films showcasing the diversity of international cinema.
World Premieres include:
(untitled) (USA), Alien Trespass (USA), American Primitive (USA), Baghdad, Texas (USA), Bedford: The Town They Left Behind (USA), Dark and Stormy Night (USA), Eugene (USA), Frank the Rat (USA), Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner (USA), The Inheritance of War (USA), The Least Among You (USA), Like Dandelion Dust (USA), ShowGirls, Provincetown, MA (USA), Tales from the Script (USA).
North American Premieres include:
Egon & Dönci (Hungary), Flowers of the Sky (Sri Lanka/India), The Green Dumpster Mystery (Israel), Hope Eternal (UK/Zambia/Congo/ Zimbabwe/South Africa), Kandisha (Morocco), The Karamazovs (Czech Republic/Poland), Marcello Marcello [...]

by Deborah Arthur | December 18, 2008   
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