“Dean,” “Junction 48,” “Do Not Resist” among Tribeca Fest award winners April 22, 2016 - 13:41 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Demteri Martin’s “Dean” claimed the Best U.S. Narrative Feature prize at the 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival, TheWrap reports. At the awards ceremony in New York City on Thursday, Udi Aloni’s “Junction 48” took the prize for Best International Narrative Feature while Craig Atkinson’s “Do Not Resist” won the award for Best Documentary Feature. For the first time in the festival’s history, there were separate U.S. and international narrative competition categories. This year’s festival included 102 features, 74 short films and 38 immersive storytelling projects from 42 countries. “We are proud to celebrate the winning filmmakers, artists, and creators from our 15th edition,” said Jane Rosenthal, who founded the festival with Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff. “Their stories have entertained, inspired, and challenged us to think about the world and we are grateful to them for sharing their work with us.” The jury included Anne Carey, James Le Gros, Chris Nashawaty, Mya Taylor and Jennifer Westfeldt, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Danny Glover.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Macron says France commemorates 109th anniv. of Armenian genocide  Today France commemorates the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 1915, Macron says.CSTO recognizes Armenia’s sovereign right to withdraw Tasmagambetov has said that if Armenia decides to leave the organization, “it will be the sovereign right of Armenia.”Pashinyan: We must stop searching for homeland, we have found that homeland Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has shared a message on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.Erdogan wants “realistic road map” for relations with Armenia Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a “new realistic road map” for relations with Armenia. |
