Stuart Hazeldine's "Exam" claimed the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the 25th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which handed out its prizes Sunday at a brunch at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort.
Starring Luke Mably and Nathalie Cox, "Exam" is a psychological thriller about eight candidates competing for a job at a mysterious corporation.
The Best International Film award went to the Finish feature "Letters to Father Jacob" (Postia pappi Jaakobille), directed by Klaus Haro, about a woman relseaesd from prison who goes to work for a blind priest.
Ciro Guerra's "The Wind Journeys" took the Nueva Vision Award for best Spanish/Latin American film. The East Meets West Cinema Award went to South Korea's "Mother" (Madeo), directed by Bong Joon-ho. And the Eastern Bloc award was awarded to Peter Strickland's "Katalin Varga."
Rob Lemkin's "Enemies of the People," which returns to the killing fields of Cambodia,...
Starring Luke Mably and Nathalie Cox, "Exam" is a psychological thriller about eight candidates competing for a job at a mysterious corporation.
The Best International Film award went to the Finish feature "Letters to Father Jacob" (Postia pappi Jaakobille), directed by Klaus Haro, about a woman relseaesd from prison who goes to work for a blind priest.
Ciro Guerra's "The Wind Journeys" took the Nueva Vision Award for best Spanish/Latin American film. The East Meets West Cinema Award went to South Korea's "Mother" (Madeo), directed by Bong Joon-ho. And the Eastern Bloc award was awarded to Peter Strickland's "Katalin Varga."
Rob Lemkin's "Enemies of the People," which returns to the killing fields of Cambodia,...
- 2/14/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The October 1st deadline for all countries wanting into the Academy Award's foreign-language film category has come and gone, but you wouldn't know it since no official list of films submitted has been published. - The October 1st deadline for all countries wanting into the Academy Award's foreign-language film category has come and gone, but you wouldn't know it since no official list of films submitted has been published. You could go tooth and nail on the web and film trades and you'd come up with nada, nothing, zero and zilch – and that goes for the official site. The Lemon of the Week goes to the Oscars for not publishing an official list, which sounds like a trivial complaint, but how difficult can it be for them to collect the titles, include the last minute additions and proudly issue a press release listing all participating nations/first round of nomination hopefuls.
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
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