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June 19, 2006

Late, Not Breaking News: Brooklyn Int. Film Fest Unloads Hardware

My plans to cover the ninth annual Brooklyn International Film Festival fell through at every turn, so fuck it: Follow the jump for the winners, including recently revealed Audience Award recipient Crossing Arizona below, by Brooklyn's Joseph Mathew and Queens' Dan DeVivo) and His Brooklyn Excellency (no, really), studio magnate Doug Steiner. As with so many things--festival coverage especially--there is always next year.


A scene from Joseph Mathew and Dan DeVivo's Brooklyn International Film Festival award-winner Crossing Arizona (Photo: CrossingAz.com)

Grand Chameleon Award: BLOOD: DEATH DOES NOT EXIST

Best Feature: BLOOD: DEATH DOES NOT EXIST

Best Documentary / Diane Seligman Award: RADIOPHOBIA

Best Short: OUSMANE

Best Experimental: CAROUSEL RITE

Best Animation (ex-equo): JOURNEY TO MARS & CRAB REVOLUTION

Brooklyn Excellence Award: DOUGLAS STEINER, Chairman of Steiner Studios

Spirit Awards (films in which the festival recognizes its own spirit):
Feature: AHLAAM
Documentary: BEFORE FLYING BACK TO THE EARTH
Short: THE WINTER
Experimental: LOOKING FOR ALFRED
Animation: OUR MAN IN NIRVANA
Best new director: JOEL PALOMBO for MILK & OPIUM

Audience Awards
Feature: THE OH IN OHIO
Documentary: CROSSING ARIZONA
Short: MAGNETIC POLES
Experimental: WOLF'S DREAM
Animation: THE NUCLEAR PHYSICIST GIVES HIS SON FREE ADVICE

Certificate for Outstanding Achievement
Best Female Actor (ex-equo) : OLGA KURYLENKO & JESSICA GENEUS
Best Male Actor (ex-equo) : BASHIR AL-MAJID & SWAROOP KHAN
Production: WILKENSON BRUNA
Cinematography: TOMISLAV PINTER
Screenplay: EYAL HALFON
Editing: KEITH REAMER
Score: CHRIS BROKAW

Posted by stvanairsdale at June 19, 2006 09:42 AM

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