Festival Do Rio Rio De Janeiro International Film Festival

From 'Wolf at the Door' by Fernando Coimbra.

FESTIVAL DO RIO ANNOUNCES 2013 AWARDS

Rio International Film Festival 2013. Presented by Ministério da Cultura, Governo do Rio de Janeiro, Secretaria de Estado de Cultura, Petrobras and Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro. Sponsored by RioFilme

Underage and Wolf At The Door share Redentor Trophy

Drawing to a close after 15 days of back-to-back screenings and hectic RioMarket activity, Festival do Rio, Latin America’s biggest annual celebration of cinema tonight handed out its closing night prizes given to films in the Premiere Brazil section which highlights new work by home grown filmmakers.

For this edition, awards were last minute moved to the festival’s downtown Armazem 6 dockland pavilion and given a Golden Globes supper lounge format instead of the traditional cinema set up of previous years during which the Odeon Petrobras cinema in Cinelandia was a fixed home to the prize giving ceremony.

Location move apart, the festival prize ceremony itself came up with one or two surprises, biggest of which was attached to the top award of the night.

For the first time in the history of the Festival, the fest’s pinacle award - Best Fiction Feature -was shared between two films.

The official jury chose to award its best national film of the year Redentor trophy jointly to Caru Alves de Souza’s De Menor (Underage) and O Lobo Atrás da Porta (Wolf At The Door) by Fernando Coimbra, both directors receiving their awards for their feature debuts.

Throughout the festival the buzz has suggested this year’s line-up has been one its strongest, and this sharing of the award would seem to be a certain indicator of the high level of creativity on show.

During the festival Coimbra’s dark psychological thriller O Lobo Atrás da Porta (Wolf At The Door) which follows three central figures in a child´s kidnapping – the father, the mother and the father´s mistress – was subject of strong critical attention for the performance of leading actress Leandra Leal. So it was not unexpected when Leal was handed the Best Actress prize, giving her the same trophy for a second year in a row. This time last year, Leal took the award for her work in director Bruno Safadi’s Eden. One of the industry’s most sought after actresses, Leal also has roles in a further three films featured in this year’s Premiere Brazil section.

For Best Director, the award was also shared, this time between two veterans working together for the first time: Cao Guimarães and Marcelo Gomes, for their film O Homem das Multidões (The Man of the Crowd), a Brazilian take on contemporary alienation loosely based on an 19th century Edgar Allan Poe story.

The best feature documentary of this year was Histórias de Arcanjo - Um Documentário sobre Tim Lopes (Stories of Arcanjo - a documentary about Tim Lopes), by Guilherme Azevedo and written by Bruno Quintella, son of the journalist murdered in 2002.

In terms of number of awards, another big winner of the night was screenwriter turned director Hilton Lacerda, whose first step as director, Tatuagem (Tattoo), earned two trophies - for Best Actor (Jesuíta Barbosa) and Best Support Actor (Rodrigo García) as well as receiving the 2013 Fipresci award for Best Latin American Film in the festival and the Public Vote award for Best Film in the Festival.

Best Screenplay was awarded to Entre Nós (Sheep's Clothing) by Paulo Morelli, which also brought home the Best Supporting Actress award for featured actress Martha Nowill ; Best Editing went to Estrada 47 (Road 47), by Vicente Ferraz; and Best Photography to Quase Samba (Lyrics), by Ricardo Targino, among other prizes given.

Prizes in the Novos Rumos (New Trends) section were presented to Tão Longe É Aqui (Here Is So Far) by Eliza Capai for Best Film, and Best Short award to Todos Esses Dias Em Que Sou Estrangeiro (All These Days When I Am Foreign) by Eduardo Morotó.

See full coverage of the winners at: http://www.festivaldorio.com.br

Prizes of the Official Jury President Fabiano Canosa with Doris Hegner, Helena Ignez, Lázaro Ramos and Marie-Pierre Macia

I. Best Fiction Feature Shared between DE MENOR (Underage) by Caru Alves de Souza and O LOBO ATRÁS DA PORTA (Wolf At The Door) de Fernando Coimbra

II. Best Feature Length Documentary HISTÓRIAS DE ARCANJO - UM DOCUMENTÁRIO SOBRE TIM LOPES (Stories of Arcanjo – A Documentary About Tim Lopes) by Guilherme Azevedo

With jury honorary mentions for CATIVAS - PRESAS PELO CORAÇÃO (Captive Hearts) by Joana Nin and DAMAS DO SAMBA (Samba Ladies) by Susanna Lira

III. Best Short CONTRATEMPO (Setback), by Bruno Jorge

IV. Best Director CAO GUIMARÃES and MARCELO GOMES for O HOMEM DAS MULTIDÕES (The Man of the Crowd)

V. Best Actor JESUÍTA BARBOSA for TATUAGEM (Tattoo) directed by Hilton LACERDA

With a jury honorary mention for FRANCISCO GASPAR for his work in ESTRADA 47 (Road 47).

VI. Best Actress LEANDRA LEAL, for O LOBO ATRÁS DA PORTA (Wolf At The Door) directed by Fernando Coimbra This is second year in a row Leandra Leal has taken best actress award. In 2012 she received this for her performance in director Bruno Safadi’s EDEN

VII. Best Supporting Actress MARTHA NOWILL for ENTRE NÓS (Sheep’s Clothing) directed by Paulo MORELLI

VIII. Best Supporting Actor RODRIGO GARCÍA for TATUAGEM directed by Hilton LACERDA

With jury honorary mentions for SILVIO GUINDANE for his performance in JOGO DAS DECAPITAÇÕES (The Beheading Game) and for JULIO ANDRADE for ENTRE NÓS (Sheep’s Clothing).

IX. Best Screenplay PAULO MORELLI for ENTRE NÓS (Sheep’s Clothing)

X. Best Editing MAIR TAVARES for A ESTRADA 47 (Road 47) directed by Vicente Ferraz

XI. Best Photography PEDRO URANO for QUASE SAMBA (Lyrics) directed by Ricardo Targino

XII. Special Jury Prize - Documentary A FARRA DO CIRCO (Ruckus At The Circus), by Roberto Berliner and Pedro Bronz

Xlll. Special Jury Prize - Fiction Feature TATUAGEM (Tattoo) by Hilton Lacerda

Prizes of the NOVOS RUMOS (New Trends) Jury Jury President Anna Azevedo and composed of Maria Flor and António Ferreira

l. Best Feature Film TÃO LONGE É AQUI (Here Is So Far), by Eliza Capai

With a jury honorary mention for O MENINO E O MUNDO (The Boy And The World) by Alê Abreu

II. Best Short TODOS ESSES DIAS EM QUE SOU ESTRANGEIRO (All These Days When I Am Foreign) by Eduardo Morotó

With a jury honorary mention for LIÇÃO DE ESQUI (Ski Lessons) by Leonardo Mouramateus, Samuel Brasileiro

Public Audience Awards Once again the public vote was at odds with the official jury. Voted by festival audiences, they instead gave their Best Film vote to TATUAGEM (Tattoo), by Hilton LACERDA, bringing the film’s overall collection of prize awards to a total of four.

Best Feature length documentary went to Renato Terra’s FLA X FLU which invites viewers to share in one of Brazilian soccer’s most charming feuds – between the cross-town rival football teams of Flamengo and Fluminense, a feud that dates back to 1911 when a group of dissatisfied players from Fluminense left the club, and went to Flamengo.

The Best Short award was given to Paula Lice, Rodrigo Luna, and Ronei Jorge’s JESSY in which godmothers are called to help Jessy realise her desire to become a drag queen.

I. Best Fiction Feature TATUAGEM (Tattoo), by Hilton LACERDA

II. Best Feature Length Documentary FLA X FLU, by Renato Terra

III. Best Short JESSY, by Paula Lice, Rodrigo Luna, and Ronei Jorge

FIPRESCI Award

The international FIPRESCI jury presided over by Carmen Gray (UK), and made up of Juan Manuel Dominguez (Argentina) and Brazilian critics Ricardo Largman and Luiz Fernando Gallego gave their prize for best Latina American film in the festival to:

Hilton Lacerda for his film TATUAGEM (Tattoo).

Festival Overview:

Over fifteen days, September 26 – October 10, the Rio Film Festival has exhibited over 400 international and local films in more than 30 locations around the city. It has attracted more than 300,000 paid spectators.

Among the top international visitors to the Festival this year included: Claire Denis, Dakota Fanning, Paulo Sorrentino, Alain Guiraudie, Lee Daniels, Beeban Kidron, Stephen Daldry, Claire Simon, Amat Escalante, Bruce LaBruce, Paul Schrader, Goldie Hawn, Arnaud de Pallières, Jeremy Scahill and Glen Greenwald.

Among festival-goers, this year’s list of most seen films proved to be:

Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen The Butler, Lee Daniels Fading Gigolo, John Turturro Nebraska, Alexander Payne The Girl With Nine Wigs, Marc Rothemund Young and Beautiful, Francois Ozon Diana, Oliver Hirschbiegel Only God Forgives, Nicolas Winding Refn The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron Kill Your Darlings, John Krokidas Stranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie

Most-sought out films amongst serious cinefiles were:

We Are the Best, Lukas Moodysson Hitler’s Children, Chanoch Ze’Evi Concussion, Stacie Passon Our Sunhi, Hong Sang-soo Any Day Now, Travis Fine Dirty Wars, Richard Rowley Heli, Amat Escalante Gare du Nord, Claire Simon Taboor, Vahid Vakilifar The Strange Little Cat, Ramon Zurcher I Used to Be Darker, Matthew Porterfield Gerontophilia, Bruce LaBruce

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Edited by Vanessa McMahon