AFI FEST 2009 Awards

AFI FEST 2009 Awards
AFI FEST 2009: Hollywood/Santa Monica, Oct. 30-Nov. 7, 2009
 

Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank focuses on a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) frustrated that her mother has found a new beau (Michael Fassbender); Javier Rebollo’s Woman Without Piano is a dramatic portrait of 24 hours in the life of a Madrid housewife (Carmen Machi); and Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s Ajami (above) chronicles the day-to-day, anything-but-routine lives of several denizens of a tough neighborhood in Jaffa, where Muslims, Jews, and Christians are sworn to live in bloody disharmony.
 
NEW LIGHTS COMPETITION AWARD WINNER

FISH TANK DIR: Andrea Arnold UK

WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO (LA MUJER SIN PIANO) DIR: Javier Rebollo Spain/France

SPECIAL JURY MENTION
AJAMI DIR: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani Israel/Germany

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by Andre Soares | November 6, 2009   
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San Sebastian Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 San Sebastian Film Festival Awards
2009 San Sebastian Film Festival: Sept. 18-26, 2009
 
Official Selection

GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH by LU CHUAN (China)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
LE REFUGE by FRANÇOIS OZON (France)

SILVER SHELL FOR BEST DIRECTOR
JAVIER REBOLLO for LA MUJER SIN PIANO (Spain-France)

SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTOR
PABLO PINEDA for YO, TAMBIÉN (Spain)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTRESS
LOLA DUEÑAS for YO, TAMBIÉN (Spain)

JURY PRIZE FOR BEST SCREENPLAY
ANDREW BOVELL, MELISSA REEVES, PATRICIA CORNELIUS and CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS for BLESSED (Australia)
JURY PRIZE FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
CAO YU for CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (China)

 
Official Competition Jury: LAURENT CANTET (France) (President), BONG JOON-HO (Korea), DANIEL GIMÉNEZ CACHO (Spain), JOHN MADDEN (United Kingdom), LEONOR SILVEIRA (Portugal), PILAR LÓPEZ DE AYALA (Spain), SAMIRA MAKHMALBAF (Iran)
 
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by Pierre Philipe | September 27, 2009   
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