Hamptons International Film Festival
October 14, 2009
(East Hampton N.Y.)– October 12th - “The Misfortunates” and Director Felix Van Groeningen won three Golden Starfish Awards for best narrative feature, screenplay and cinematography, at the 17th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton. This film is also the official selection by Belgium for the Academy Awards.
The Audience Award at this year’s festival went to Jean-Marc Valee’s Young Victoria which will be in theaters in a limited release as of December 18th.
Awards were handed out Sunday night during a ceremony at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Rachel Dratch was on hand to present the awards along with Alec Baldwin and Barry Sonnenfeld.
“It is has been a fabulous year, with an extraordinary amount of talent at the festival”, says Executive Director Karen Arikian. “We have welcomed a lot of new faces and seen many of our friends from the past as well. Our non-profit festival continues to grow in a year that is financially challenging but thanks to our board, our sponsors and a very hard-working team, it all seems to have come together in a wonderful way.”
This year the festival was honored to present a newly created annual award in memory of Wouter Barendrecht, Founder and Co-Chairman of Fortissimo Films. The award was presented by Fortissimo’s Winnie Lau to John Maringouin for Big River Man.
According to Karen Arikian, ” We are very touched, and proud, to present the inaugural Wouter Barendrecht Pioneering Vision Award as his legacy means so much to us, and the film community at large.”
“I’d like to congratulate all of this year’s filmmakers on their films as they are what really makes the festival special”, said Director of Programming David Nugent. “It is always fascinating to see what films are chosen for awards from both the audience and jury. I think that they both made great choices this year”.
Congratulations to the winners. The full list is below.
- Best Narrative Feature, Zicherman Award for Best Screenplay, and Kodak Award for Best Cinematography- The Misfortunates, Felix Van Groeningen Outstanding Achievement by an Actor- Paprika Steen for Applause
- Best Documentary Feature- Long Distance Love, Elin Jonsson & Magnus Gertten
- Special Jury Award- Mugabe and the White African, Andrew Thompson & Lucy Bailey
- Best Film of Conflict & Resolution- Rabbit a la Berlin, Bartek Konopka
- Special Jury Award- How to Fold a Flag, Michael Tucker & Petra Epperlein
- Conflict & Resolution Development Award- The Harvest, Robin Romano
- Best Short Film- Dust Kid, Yumi Jung
Audience Awards
- Best Narrative- Young Victoria, Jean-Marc Vallee
- Best Documentary- Waking Sleeping Beauty, Don Hahn
- Best Short- This is Her, Katie Wolf
- Kanbar Indie Award- Adventures in Women’s Lingerie, 4th Floor, Antonio Campos
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize- Agora, Alejandro Amenabar
- RoC(c) Gold Standard in Filmmaking for a Feature Female Director- Cheryl Hines for Serious Moonlight
Student Awards
- Akash, Ash Bhalla
- Blackwater, Konstantinos Frangopoulos
- Christopher Dispossessed, Matthew Watts
- Sinkhole, Eric Scherbarth
- transitions, Mark Lee
- Outstanding Achievement in Acting- Sharon Stone
- The Wouter Barendrecht Pioneering Vision Award- Big River Man, John Maringouin
The Jurors
- Narrative-Terrie Sultan, Director of Parrish Art Museum
- Barry Sonnenfeld, Director
- Thelma Adams (Critic, US Weekly)
Dococumentary
- Eugene Hernandez (Editor in Chief, Indiewire)
- Annie Sundberg (Filmmaker, THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT)
- Nancy Buirski (Founder, Full Frame Film Festival)
Conflict and Resolution
- Alec Baldwin
- Josh Gladstone (Artistic Director, Guild Hall)
- Megumi Sasaki (filmmaker, HERB AND DOROTHY)
Website at www.hamptonsfilmfest.org.
For more information contact FRANK PR at 646-861-0843
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