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Wrap-up
The
14th Annual AFI Fest, which showcased more than 90 films, closed
at the Egpytian Theater in Hollywood, CA Thursday October 26 with
an Awards Ceremony and the Gala presentation of director Philip
Kaufman's film Quills starring Academy Award-winning actor
Geoffrey Rush as the infamous French writer the Marquis de Sade.
The night before there had been a special tribute honoring filmmaker
Kaufman for his critically acclaimed work, several titles of which
were screened during the festival.
Primarily young "new" talent was honored for artistry in
filmmaking at the Awards Ceremony. Iran's Samira Makhmalbaf (director-screenwriter)
and Swiss producer Marco Muller took the Grand Jury Prize for Blackboards
(which also won a Jury Prize
at Cannes 2000). The Grand Jury Prize was presented by the United
States Postal Service.
Awards
Films
in Competition will be eligible for the following prizes:
Grand
Jury Prize
to the Best Feature Film in International Competition
Blackboards
Kodak
Vision Award in Cinematography
to honor excellence in cinematography in the International
Competition
Gangster N°1
New
Directions Prize
$2,500 cash prize to the best film in the New Directions from American
Independents Section
You
Can Count On Me
Best
New Writer
$2,500
cash prize awarded to a promising new writer in the New Directions
for American Independents section
You
Can Count On Me
Producer
to Watch Award
Recognizing
the accomplishments and potential of a producer participating in
the New Directions for American Independents section
Songcatcher
The
Best New Director
$2,500 cash prize, to the best director in the New Directions from
American Independents Section
Maze
The
Discovery Communications, Inc. Documentary Film Award
to the
best documentary film in the Documentary Competition
Naked
States
Virtual
Venue Audience Award for Best Short Film
Determined by online tabulation from the "virtual venue"
$2,500
cash prize (sponsored by IFILM)
Audience
Awards
a balloted award in each of the feature, documentary and short film
categories.
Feature : Love's
Bitch (Amores Perros)
Documentary : Homeland
Short Film : Ordinary Love
Jury
The
International Competition
Joe
Frank
An award-winning radio monologist and montagist, Joe Frank's work
spans more than 20 years. He is the author of The Queen of Puerto
Rico and Other Stories, short stories based on his radio work.
Gyula
Gazdag
Gyula Gazdag is an accomplished and iconoclastic Hungarian director
of theater, film, and television whose feature A Hungarian Fairy
Tale won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
Cheng-Sim
Lim
Born in Malaysia, Cheng-Sim Lim is a Programmer at the UCLA Film
and Television Archive and a film/videomaker who studied fine arts
at Smith College.
New
Directions From American Independents
Nancy
Bishop
In the field of mass media, Nancy Bishop is known as an innovator
and a champion of up-and-coming artists. She edits and publishes
Venice magazine.
Susan Glatzer
Most recently, Glatzer was the Senior Vice President of Acquisition
and Production for USA Films. She is currently an independent producer
working on Eva & Me for Lions Gate Films.
Scott
Thompson
Known for his three nipples, Scott Thompson is a horror movie actor
who became famous in the 60s.
Documentary
Harrison
Engle
Engle is the award-winning director of numerous dramatic and documentary
films. For television he directed War and Peace, an hour
special airing on TNT.
Marina Goldovskaya
One of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers, Goldovskaya won
the Best Film prize at the Prix Europa, the Ester Prize in Washington,
DC and the Grand Prize at Monte Carlo in 1994 for her documentary
House on Arbat Street.
David Haugland
Haugland is an internationally-recognized and award-winning
filmmaker whose work includes two Academy-Award nominated documentary
features films, one of which is Changing Our Minds: The Story
of Dr. Evelyn Hooker.
AFI
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