17th Annual Brooklyn Film Festival Announces FORMULA Winners
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17th ANNUAL BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES
FORMULA WINNERS
Grand Chameleon Award and Best Narrative Feature Goes to Jadrien Steele’s Victoriana
Best Documentary Feature Goes to Nima Sarvestani for No Burqas Behind Bars
Audience Awards Go to Alexis Boling’s Movement and Location (Narrative Feature) and
David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley’s Who Took Johnny (Documentary Feature)
Best New Director Goes to Matan Guggenheim for Paradise Cruise
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, JUNE 8, 2014 - Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), the largest and longest running festival in Brooklyn and the oldest international competitive festival in New York, is proud to announce the winners of its annual festival themed FORMULA. The event ran from May 30 through June 8 in Williamsburg at indieScreen (289 Kent Avenue) and Windmill Studios NYC (287 Kent Avenue). The festival presented 107 film premieres from 34 countries, selected from over 2,000 submissions.
BFF awarded the winners with prizes totaling over $50,000 in film services and products. Prizes include a seven-day theatrical release at indieScreen for the Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary award winners, and for the first time as well for the Best Narrative Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animation and Best Experimental Film.
PRIZES SPONSORED BY: Panavision, indieScreen, AbelCine, Xeno Lights, Media Services, Avid Technologies, Film Friends, Cinecall Soundtracks and Windmill Studios.
GRAND CHAMELEON AWARD:
Jadrien Steele for Victoriana
Panavision (camera package rental)
Xeno lights (lighting rental)
BEST IN CATEGORY:
Narrative Feature – Jadrien Steele for Victoriana
AbelCine (toward any camera package rental for 7 days)
7-day release at indieScreen
Documentary Feature – Nima Sarvestani for No Burqas Behind Bars
7-day release at indieScreen
Narrative Short – Mauricio Osaki for My Father’s Truck
7-day release at indieScreen
One-week usage of a film studio at Windmill Studios
Documentary Short – Anthony Simon for Third Shift
7-day release at indieScreen
Cinecall soundtracks (music rights and/or sound services)
Animation - Uri Kranot & Michelle Kranot for Hollow Land
7-day release at indieScreen
Experimental - Charles Griffin Gibson for The Meteor
7-day release at indieScreen
Film Friends equipment rental and Mik Cribben Steadicam services
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Documentary Feature - David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley for Who Took Johnny
Narrative Feature - Alexis Boling for Movement and Location
Narrative Short - Jacob Kindlon for Vocabulary of the Mysteries
Documentary Short - Thomas Wood for LA Miner
Animation - Rick Manlapig for Fakie
Experimental - Augusto Giachino for Third Sister
CERTIFICATES OF ACHIEVEMENT:
Best New Director - Matan Guggenheim for Paradise Cruise
Media Services software: The Showbiz scheduling & budgeting
Best Producer - Christophe Nick and Victor Ede for Boy Saloum
Media Services software: The Showbiz scheduling & budgeting
Best Screenplay - Bodine Boling for Movement and Location
Media Services software: The Showbiz scheduling & budgeting
Best Cinematography - Franz Dude for My Blind Heart
Media Services software: The Showbiz scheduling & budgeting
Best Editing - T.J. Misny for Intimate Semaphores
Avid Software: Media Composer 6.5
Best Original Score - Dan Tepfer for Movement and Location
Best Actor (Female) - Rezeta Veliu for Rezeta
Best Actor (Male) - Christos Haas for My Blind Heart
BROOKLYN PRIDE AWARD:
Beyza Boyacioglu & Sebastian Diaz Aguirre for Toñita's
Media Services software: The Showbiz scheduling & budgeting
SPIRIT AWARDS:
Narrative Feature - Fernando Frias for Rezeta
Documentary Feature - Mladen Kovacevic for Unplugged
Narrative Short - Peter Vack for Send
Documentary Short - Stephen Greenwood for Tunnel Vision
Experimental - Miriam Harris & Juliet Palner for Warsaw, January 2011
Animation - Catya Plate for Hanging By a Thread
About Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF):
The organizers of the Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), have been staging international, competitive film events since 1998. BFF’s mission is to provide a public forum in Brooklyn in order to advance public interest in films and the independent production of films, to draw worldwide attention to Brooklyn as a center for cinema, to encourage the rights of all Brooklyn residents to access and experience the power of independent filmmaking, and to promote artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure. BFF, inc. is a not-for-profit organization.
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