Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 1, 2009 under Independent Film Festival of Boston | 
- CHILDREN OF INVENTION directed by Tze Chun
The 2009 Independent Film Festival of Boston just concluded and announced all of the award winners.
Narrative Feature:
Grand Jury Prize: CHILDREN OF INVENTION, directed by Tze Chun
Special Jury Prize: BEESWAX, directed by Andrew Bujalski
Audience Award: STILL WALKING, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Documentary Feature:
- CRUDE directed by Joe Berlinger
Grand Jury Prize: CRUDE, directed by Joe Berlinger
Special Jury Prize: UNMISTAKEN CHILD, directed by Nati Baratz
Honorable Mention: THE WAY WE GET BY, directed by Aron Gaudet
Audience Award: SHOOTING BEAUTY, directed by George Kachadorian
Short Film:
Grand Jury Prize: INSTEAD OF ABRACADABRA, directed by Patrik Eklund
Special Jury Prize: I AM SO PROUD OF YOU, directed by Don Hertzfeldt
Audience Award: SHORT TERM 12, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Best Marketing: (TIE) SHOOTING BEAUTY and LOLLIPOP MAN
The crews of these two films worked the hardest throughout the festival to promote their films’ screening.
Another tradition at IFFBoston is that there is a filmmaker candlepin bowling challenge each year. The bowling awards went to:
BEST BOWLER: Scott Teems, THAT EVENING SUN
MOST CONGENIAL BOWLER: Tze Chun, CHILDREN OF INVENTION
BOWLS MOST LIKE A FILMMAKER: Michael Axelgaard, LOLLIPOP MAN
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 25, 2009 under Independent Film Festival of Boston |
The Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston) has announced the films that will be featured at the 2009 Independent Film Festival of Boston.
The seventh annual festival will be held April 22-April 28, 2009.
“THE BROTHERS BLOOM” directed by Rian Johnson and starring Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, and Rachel Weisz, will open the festival on Wednesday, April 22nd at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. Rian Johnson and selected cast will be in attendance for the Opening Night screening.
Some highlights of the 2009 festival include Ondi Timoner’s (”Dig!”) Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, Guillermo Arriaga’s (writer of “Babel”, “21 Grams”) directorial debut THE BURNING PLAIN starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, LA MISSION starring Benjamin Bratt, IN THE LOOP starring James Gandolfini, Hirokazu Koreeda’s STILL WALKING, Robert Siegel’s (writer of “The Wrestler”) BIG FAN starring Patton Oswalt and Kevin Corrigan, and Olivier Assayas’ SUMMER HOURS starring Juliette Binoche, and WORLD’S GREATEST DAD directed by Bobcat Goldthwait.
Numerous films with strong Boston ties will make their New England premieres at the festival this April, including Jonathan Hock’s THE LOST SON OF HAVANA, Bestor Cram’s JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON, Aron Gaudet’s THE WAY WE GET BY, Laura Longsworth’s LUCKEY, Gerald Peary’s FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES: THE STORY OF AMERICAN FILM CRITICISM, Amy Grill’s SPEAKING IN CODE, Andrew Bujalski’s BEESWAX, Alex Karpovsky’s TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP, Ian McFarland’s CHIP ON MY SHOULDER, George Kachadorian’s SHOOTING BEAUTY, Al Ward’s BLOOD, SWEAT & CHEERS, and Tze Chun’s CHILDREN OF INVENTION.
Special guests attending the festival include Chris Cooper, Benjamin Bratt, Bobby and Peter Farrelly, Kevin Corrigan, Luis Tiant, and many more to be announced in the coming weeks.
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