The Lone Star International Film Festival 2008 Award Winners
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 17, 2008 under Lone Star International Film Festival | 
The Lone Star International Film Festival, Fort Worth, in Sundance Square, yesterday announced the 2008 award winners with Igor Volshin’s NIRVANA named as recipient of the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature Competition. Special Jury Prize went to Tom Quinn’s THE NEW YEAR PARADE.
Eric Bricker’s VISUAL ACOUSTICS - THE MODERNISM OF JULIUS SHULMAN took the Documentary Grand Jury Prize.
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s THE BANISHMENT was named Best Foreign Language film.
The Shorts Jury Prize went to Clay Liford’s MY MOM SMOKES WEED. Special Jury prize went to Alex Beh’s SUGAR.
Hosted by The Worthington Hotel in Fort Worth, the awards ceremony also featured the presentation of the Lone Star Rising Star Award to Melonie Diaz. Presented by LSIFF Programming Director Alec Jhangiani, Diaz was recognized for her work in films ranging from Catherine Hardwicke’s LORDS OF DOGTOWN, Dito Montiel’s A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS, and Michel Gondry’s BE KIND REWIND to Spencer Parson’s I’LL COME RUNNING - which screened at the festival following the ceremony.
AFI DALLAS Artistic Director and CEO Michael Cain made the presentation of the LSIFF’s Life Achievement Award to Sidney Lumet. Due to illness, Lumet was unable to attend the ceremony to personally accept the award or attend the LSIFF screenings of his classic films, 12 ANGRY MEN and NETWORK as part of their salute to his work.
LSIFF Festival Director Dennis Bishop presented the Lone Star Commitment to Texas Award to Tom Copeland. Copeland was recognized for his career spanning more than twenty years working with the Texas Film Commission - including ten years as Director of that commission, professor at Texas State University - San Marcos and producer with the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts.
JURY AWARDS
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
GRAND JURY PRIZE: NIRVANA
DIR: Igor Volshin Cast: Olga Sutulova, Mariya Shalayeva, Arthur Smolyaninov, Mikhail Evlanov PROD: Sergei Selyanov
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE: THE NEW YEAR PARADE
DIR/SCR: Tom Quinn Cast: Paul Blackway, Andrew Conway, Irene Longshore, Greg Lyons PROD: Tom Quinn, Steve Beal
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
GRAND JURY PRIZE: VISUAL ACOUSTICS - THE MODERNISM OF JULIUS SHULMAN
DIR: Eric Bricker PROD: Eric Bricker, Babette Zilch
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE: THE BANISHMENT
DIR: Andrei Zvyagintsev Cast: Konstantin Lavronenko, Aleksandr Baluyev, Maksim Shibayev PROD: Dmitri Lesnevsky EXEC PROD: Yelena Loginova, Anthony Ray
SHORTS COMPETITION
GRAND JURY PRIZE: MY MOM SMOKES WEED
DIR/SCR: Clay Liford PROD: Clay Liford, Yen Tan
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE: SUGAR
DIR/SCR: Alex Beh PROD: Rachel Reichard, Nathan Brown, Bud Johnston, Geoff Pitt, Bretty Hay
