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
AFI FEST 2009 NEW LIGHTS [...]
by Andre Soares | November 6, 2009
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Tags: AFI FEST, AFI FEST 2009, Ajami, Andrea Arnold, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Fish Tank, Javier Rebollo, Scandar Copti, Woman Without Piano, Yaron Shani
Jodie Whittaker, Yaron Shani, Nick Broomfield: London 2009
Actress and award presenter Jodie Whittaker arrives at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)
Director Yaron Shani, whose Ajami (co-directed with Scandar Copti) won the Israeli Academy Award earlier this year, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Filmmaker and award presenter Nick Broomfield arrives at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
by Joan Lister | October 30, 2009
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Tags: Film Festivals, Jodie Whittaker, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2009, Nick Broomfield, Photos, Yaron Shani
Charlotte Rampling, Anjelica Huston, John Hurt: London 2009
Veteran actresses Charlotte Rampling and Anjelica Huston attend a cocktail reception at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)
Filmmaker Yaron Shani poses with the Sutherland award for the film Ajami, voted the most original and imaginative first feature. Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón is standing next to him at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
John Hurt poses with his BFI Fellowship. Next to him are Jeremy Thomas (on his left) and Michael Caton-Jones (on his right) at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
by Joan Lister | October 30, 2009
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Tags: Alfonso Cuarón, Anjelica Huston, Charlotte Rampling, Film Festivals, Jeremy Thomas, John Hurt, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2009, Michael Caton-Jones, Photos, Yaron Shani
