Toronto Film Festival 2004: HOTEL RWANDA Wins Audience Award
Based on the true story of a hotel manager who saved hundreds of lives during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda has won the People’s Choice award at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival.
In the film, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) saves the lives of those hiding in his hotel by bribing military officers with cash, liquor, and other goods. While the world looked away, approximately 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were massacred during the spring and early summer of 1994.
Pete Travis‘ Omagh, the story of the relatives of victims of the bloodiest terrorist attack of Northern Ireland’s 30-year conflict, won the festival’s Discovery award, given out by attending journalists.
In My Father’s Den, [...]
by Andre Soares | September 26, 2004
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Tags: Don Cheadle, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Hotel Rwanda, In My Father's Den, Omagh, Paul Rusesabagina, Terry George, Toronto Film Festival
San Sebastián Film Festival 2004
This year, the San Sebastián Film Festival will present a retrospective dedicated to Woody Allen, whose Melinda and Melinda (above, with Will Ferrell and Radha Mitchell) will have its world premiere on opening night. American actors Jeff Bridges and Annette Bening, for their part, will be honored with lifetime achievement awards.
The festival, which takes place on Spain’s Basque coast, is currently being used as a launching pad for movies made in Latin America via its fifteen-film sidebar Horizontes Latinos.
The 52nd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival kicks off on September 17; nine days later, a jury headed by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa will give out the Golden Shell to one [...]
by Andre Soares | September 11, 2004
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Tags: Annette Bening, Film Festivals, Jeff Bridges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Melinda and Melinda, Omagh, Radha Mitchell, San Sebastian Film Festival, Will Ferrell, Woody Allen
