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London Film Festival Announces Prizes At Closing GalaFriday, November 2---------At the Closing Gala of the 51st Times bfi London Film Festival, held last evening at the close of the 14-day festival marathon, a host of awards were announced. While the Festival does not have a Competition Section per se, films screening in its various sections are eligible for some special awards. The Sutherland Trophy is awarded to the director of the most original and imaginative first feature film screened at Festival. The winners were the French directing team of Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud for the animated film PERSEPOLIS. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and has been a festival favorite throughout the summer, is based on Satrapi's popular graphic novel about her coming-of-age during the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the 1980s.
The 12th Annual Satyajit Ray Award, named in honor of the iconic Indian director to honor a debut director, was awarded to Romanian director Cristian Nemescu for the film CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'. The film, which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and won the top award in the Un Certain Regard section, tells the tale of a railway chief , who delays a NATO train transporting military equipment during the war in Kosovo in 1999. The award is indeed bittersweet, since the director died in an automobile accident shortly before completing the film at the age of 27. CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' is being hailed as the latest gem to come from the suddenly hot Romanian film industry.
Sandy Mandelberger, Awards Watch Editor 02.11.2007 | AwardsWatch's blog Cat. : A BOUT DE TRUFFE Arts Audrey Paounov Awards Watch BFI London Film Festival BRICK LANE Bulgaria Cillian Murphy Cinema of France Cristian Nemescu Cristian Nemescu Detlev Buck Film Film festival Graphic novelists Human Interest Human Interest Iran Italy Joanna Hogg Lasse Hallström London London Film Festival London Film Festival Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi North Atlantic Treaty Organization Paul Andrew Williams Persepolis Persian literature Sandy Mandelberger Sarah Gavron Simon Pegg Stephen Woolley Sutherland Trophy The 12th Annual Satyajit Ray Award the Alfred Dunhill Award the Cannes Film Festival the FIPRESCI the Karlovy Vary Film Festival the London Film Festival United Nations UNRELATEDUK Vincent Paronnaud Vincent Paronnaud AWARDS
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