Tribeca Film Festival2014 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AWARD WINNERS
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The 13th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by AT&T, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony presided over by Pat Kiernan and hosted at the Conrad New York in New York City. The Festival runs through April 27, 2014.
The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 10 countries. Best New Director prizes were awarded to a first-time director for both narrative and documentary films, selected from a pool of 39 feature films throughout the program. Awards were also given for the best narrative short, best documentary short, and student visionary films in the short film competitions. This year’s Festival included 89 features and 57 short films from 40 countries, programmed by a team led by Tribeca’s Chief Creative Officer Geoff Gilmore, Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer, Director of Programming Genna Terranova, and Programmer Cara Cusumano.
This year the Festival introduced a new award, Best Narrative Editing sponsored by Manhattan Edit Workshop. Also announced at the awards were the Bombay Sapphire Award for Transmedia for the Storyscapes section, created in collaboration with BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Gin, the Nora Ephron Prize, sponsored by Coach, Inc., and the Tribeca Online Festival feature and short film winners selected by the online audience. The winners of the Heineken Audience Awards, determined by audience votes throughout the Festival, will be announced on April 26.
“We are honored that such talented artists and storytellers chose to showcase their work at Tribeca,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, Tribeca Film Festival. “I want to congratulate all our filmmakers and thank them for being with us for the 2014 festival.”
“The remarkable talents and qualities in this year’s competition made the task of choosing the awards especially challenging for our jurors. That said the winners exemplify the artistic achievement and originality that truly makes them deserving of recognition,” said Geoff Gilmore.
Screenings of the award winning films will take place throughout the final day of the Festival, Sunday, April 27, at various venues. Specific times and ticketing information are available on the Festival website, www.tribecafilm.com/festival.
In addition to cash awards and in-kind services provided by sponsors including AKA, AT&T, Allen and Deborah Grubman, BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Gin, CNN Films, Coach, Inc., Company 3, DreamWorks Animation, FLATT magazine, Paul Hastings, LLP, Manhattan Edit Workshop, Warner Bros., the Festival presented the winners with original pieces of art created by eight contemporary artists, including Tim Barber, Tony Bennett, Stephen Hannock, Matthew Modine, Catherine Murphy, James Nares, Alexis Rockman, and Clifford Ross.
