Brooklyn Film Festival, which ran from May 30 through June 8 in Williamsburg at indieScreen (289 Kent Avenue) and Windmill Studios NYC (287 Kent Avenue), announced the winners of its annual festival themed FORMULA. The event . The festival presented 107 film premieres from 34 countries, selected from over 2,000 submissions.
Jadrien Steele’s Victoriana won the awards for Grand Chameleon Award and Best Narrative Feature, and Best Documentary Feature went to Nima Sarvestani for No Burqas Behind Bars. Alexis Boling’s Movement and Location won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley’s Who Took Johnny won for Best Documentary Feature. Best New Director went to Matan Guggenheim for Paradise Cruise.
BFF awarded the winners with prizes totaling over $50,000 in film services and products. Prizes include a seven-day theatrical release at indieScreen for the Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary award winners, and for the first time as well for the Best Narrative Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animation and Best Experimental Film.
GRAND CHAMELEON AWARD:
Jadrien Steele for Victoriana
BEST IN CATEGORY:
Narrative Feature – Jadrien Steele for Victoriana
Documentary Feature – Nima Sarvestani for No Burqas Behind Bars
Narrative Short – Mauricio Osaki for My Father’s Truck
Documentary Short – Anthony Simon for Third Shift
Animation – Uri Kranot & Michelle Kranot for Hollow Land
Experimental – Charles Griffin Gibson for The Meteor
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Documentary Feature – David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley for Who Took Johnny
Narrative Feature – Alexis Boling for Movement and Location
Narrative Short – Jacob Kindlon for Vocabulary of the Mysteries
Documentary Short – Thomas Wood for LA Miner
Animation – Rick Manlapig for Fakie
Experimental – Augusto Giachino for Third Sister
CERTIFICATES OF ACHIEVEMENT:
Best New Director – Matan Guggenheim for Paradise Cruise
Best Producer – Christophe Nick and Victor Ede for Boy Saloum
Best Screenplay – Bodine Boling for Movement and Location
Best Cinematography – Franz Dude for My Blind Heart
Best Editing – T.J. Misny for Intimate Semaphores
Best Original Score – Dan Tepfer for Movement and Location
Best Actor (Female) – Rezeta Veliu for Rezeta
Best Actor (Male) – Christos Haas for My Blind Heart
BROOKLYN PRIDE AWARD:
Beyza Boyacioglu & Sebastian Diaz Aguirre for Toñita’s
SPIRIT AWARDS:
Narrative Feature – Fernando Frias for Rezeta
Documentary Feature – Mladen Kovacevic for Unplugged
Narrative Short – Peter Vack for Send
Documentary Short – Stephen Greenwood for Tunnel Vision
Experimental – Miriam Harris & Juliet Palner for Warsaw, January 2011
Animation – Catya Plate for Hanging By a Thread
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