Posted by editor@vimooz.com on July 28, 2008 under Stony Brook Film Festival | 
Mary Stuart Masterson, making her directorial debut with “The Cake Eaters,” won the jury award for best feature at the 13th annual Stony Brook Film Festival Saturday night. Taking the audience-choice prize for best feature was “Children of Glory,” about the 1956 Hungarian revolt against Soviet domination.
Best Feature-Jury: The Cake Eaters
Directed by Mary Stuart Masterson. Written by Jayce Bartok. With Kristen Stewart, Aaron Stanford, Bruce Dern, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayce Bartok, Miriam Shor, Talia Balsam, Melissa Leo and Jesse L. Martin.
Best Feature-Audience Choice: Children of Glory
Directed by Krisztina Goda. Written by Joe Eszterhas and Éva Gárdos. With Kata Dobó and Iván Fenyö. From Hungary .
Best Short-Jury: In the Name of the Son
Directed by Harun Mehmedinovic. With Sergej Trifunovic, Jack Dimich, Elvedin Slipac and Ingrid Walters.
Best Short-Audience Choice: The Drummer
Written, produced and directed by Bill Block. With Dave Ratajczak and Asmeret Ghebremichael.
Achievement in Filmmaking: The Stone Angel
Directed by Kari Skogland. With Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser, Kevin Zegers, Ellen Page, Dylan Baker and Wings Hauser
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Tags: Aaron Stanford, Asmeret Ghebremichael, Bill Block, Bruce Dern, Children of Glory, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser, Dave Ratajczak, Dylan Baker, Elizabeth Ashley, Ellen Burstyn, Ellen Page, Elvedin Slipac, Harun Mehmedinovic, Hungary, In the Name of the Son, Ingrid Walters, Iván Fenyö, Jack Dimich, Jayce Bartok, Jesse L. Martin, Joe Eszterhas and Éva Gárdos. With Kata Dobó, Kari Skogland, Kevin Zegers, Kristen Stewart, Krisztina Goda, Mary Stuart Masterson, Melissa Leo, Miriam Shor, Sergej Trifunovic, Stony Brook Film Festival, Talia Balsam, The Cake Eaters, The Drummer, The Stone Angel, Wings Hauser
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on July 17, 2008 under Stony Brook Film Festival, Uncategorized |
The Stony Brook Film Festival, produced by Staller Center for the Arts, program of new independent film from eighteen countries screens over ten days at Staller Center at Stony Brook University from today Thursday, July 17 to Saturday, July 26. The well-attended, highly selective festival is in its thirteenth year.
Opening and Closing Nights
Opening Night will feature the New York Premiere of a drama from Canada, Emotional Arithmetic, starring Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis and Max Von Sydow, in a film about a fateful reunion among three survivors of the notorious French “transit” camp, Drancy. “The Festival is starting off with some of the finest actors in the business on screen,” said Alan Inkles, director of the Stony Brook Film Festival. Some will feel like they know the actors personally. Christopher Plummer was among the guests on stage for the Q&A last year at the N.Y. Premiere of Man in the Chair. Roy Dupuis will be a familiar face to fest-goers who saw the Quebeçois film Looking for Alexander at Stony Brook in 2006. Representing Emotional Arithmetic will be director Paolo Barzman who will attend the July 17th Opening Night and be on hand for audience questions after the screening.
The East Coast Premiere of Camille ends the Stony Brook Film Festival as its Closing Night film on Saturday, July 26 at 8:30 pm. Sienna Miller and James Franco star in the delightfully twisted story about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls for a honeymoon. Director Gregory MacKenzie will attend the screening. Many of the directors who win awards for Best Features and Shorts will also attend Closing Night, where film critic John Anderson will once again serve as the Master of Ceremonies at the Awards Reception held on the Staller Center Main Stage. Read more of this article »