William Vega’s latest film is having one helluva run…
The Colombian filmmaker won the Peter Brunette Award for best director at the RiverRun International Film Festival, which concluded on Sunday in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Vega earned the coveted trophy, named after The Hollywood Reporter’s late film reviewer, for is film La Sirga, which also won for Sofia Oggioni‘s lyrical cinematography.
Director Kate Miles Melville‘s debut film, Picture Day, won the audience award for best narrative feature in its U.S. premiere at the festival, which concluded Sunday in Winston-Salem, N.C. Melvilledrew much-buzzed performances from Tatiana Maslany as a promiscuous high schooler and Spencer Van Wyck as the nerdy protege she used to babysit.
The festival’s narrative film jury awarded both the best narrative feature and best screenplay awards to Francois Ozon‘sIn the House, about a brilliant, sinister French high school student and his writing teacher. Suzanne Clement won best actress as a transsexual’s wife in Xavier Dolan’s for Laurence Anyways. Alain Gomis‘ Teywon a special jury prize.
The 2013 RiverRun International Film Festival presented 143 feature-length films, representing 35 countries including 66 features and 77 short films, selected from 850 submissions, including one U.S. premiere and one world premiere.
Based on a true story, No stars Bernalas a brash young Chilean advertising executive who spearheads a campaign that helps topple Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime
Also from Chile, Andres Wood’s Violeta Went to Heaven came in second in the same competition, and also won Best Art Direction, while the 3rd Choral Award went to Claudio Assis’ Rat Fever from Brazil.
The Jury granted a Special Prize for Carlos Sorin’s Fishing Days (Argentina) and a Special Mention for Brazil/France co-production Once Upon a Time Was I, Verônica, directed by Marcelo Gomes
The fest’s First Film competition was topped by William Vega’s La Sirga (Colombia), followed by Alejandro Fadel’s The Wild Ones (Argentina) which also picked the Choral Award for Best Artistic Contribution. The 3rd Choral prize went to Fernando Guzzoni’s Dog Flesh (Chile)
Local documentary El evangelio según Ramiro by Juan Carlos Calahorra picked the 1st Choral in the Documentary competition, while Maria Veronica Ramirez’s Anima Buenos Aires topped the Animation category.
The FIPRESCI Award went to Nicolas Pereda’s Greatest Hits (Mexico)
Here’s the complete list of awards:
FICTION
Short Films
Jury Mention: Detras del espejo – Julio O. Ramos (Peru)
Choral Award to Best Short Film: Los anfitriones – Miguel Angel Moulet (Cuba)
Feature Length Films
First Choral Award: No – Pablo Larrain (Chile, USA, Mexico)
Second Choral Award: Violeta Went to Heaven – Andres Wood (Chile, Argentina, Brazil)
Third Choral Award: Rat Fever – Claudio Assis (Brazil)
Special Jury Prize: Fishing Days – Carlos Sorin (Argentina)
Jury Mention: Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica – Marcelo Gomes (Brazil, France)
Best Direction: Michel Franco – After Lucia (Mexico)
Best Script: Eduardo del Llano and Daniel Díaz Torres – La película de Ana (Cuba)
Best Actor: Andres Crespo – Pescador (Ecuador, Colombia)
Best Actress: Laura de la Uz – La película de Ana (Cuba)
Best Editing: Pablo Trapero and Nacho Ruiz Capillas – White Elephant (Argentina, Spain, France)
Best Original Score: Jacobo Lieberman, Leonardo Heiblum – The Delay (Uruguay, Mexico)
Best Soundtrack: Gilles Laurent – Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico, France, Germany, The Netherlands)
Best Cinematography: Alexis Zabe – Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico, France, Germany, The Netherlands)
Best Art Direction: Rodrigo Bazaes – Violeta Went to Heaven (Chile, Argentina, Brazil)
Best Film about Latin America by a non-Latin American filmmaker: Here and There – Antonio Mendez Esparza (USA, Spain, Mexico)
FIRST FILMS
First Choral Award: La Sirga – William Vega (Colombia, France, Mexico)
Second Choral Award: The Wild Ones – Alejandro Fadel (Argentina)
Third Choral Award: Dog Flesh – Fernando Guzzoni (Chile)
Mention: El limpiador – Adrian Saba (Peru)
Choral Award to the Best Artistic Contribution: The Wild Ones – Alejandro Fadel (Argentina)
ANIMATED FILMS
First Choral Award: Anima Buenos Aires – Maria Veronica Ramirez (Argentina)
Second Choral Award: Luminaris – Juan Pablo Zaramella (Argentina)
Third Choral Award: Fat Bald Short Man – Carlos Osuna (Colombia, France)
Special Jury Prize: Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe – Walter Tournier (Uruguay, Argentina, Chile)
Mention: La luna en el jardin – Adanoe Lima and Yemelí Cruz (Cuba)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
First Choral Award: El evangelio segun Ramiro – Juan Carlos Calahorra (Cuba)
Second Choral Award: Con mi corazon en Yambo – Fernanda Restrepo (Ecuador)
Third Choral Award: Cuentos sobre el futuro – Patricia Bustos (Chile)
Best Film about Latin America by a non-Latin American filmmaker: Escenas previas – Aleksandra Maciuszek (Cuba, Poland)
Special Prize: De agua dulce – Damian Sainz (Cuba)
