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The Iris Prize Winners 2011And the winner is: · I Don’t Want To Go Back Alone (directed by Daniel Ribeiro, Brazil) - Iris Prize And the other winners are: · The Red Bike (directed by Andrew Steggall) – Best UK Short · August (directed by Eldar Rapaport)- Iris Prize Best Feature Award · Murray Bartlett (Troy in August) Best Actor in a Feature · Allison Lane (Candy in Going Down In La-La Land) Best Actress in a Feature A short film about a blind 15 year old Brazilian teenager who falls in love with his new friend, Gabriel has been announced as winner of the 2011 Iris Prize – Cardiff’s International Gay and Lesbian Short Film Prize. The £25,000 prize will allow the film maker to make a new short film in the UK. At the sold out awards evening at Cardiff’s Cineworld, Jury Chair Mary Fitzpatrick announced that the international jury had selected filmmaker Daniel Ribeiro from Brazil to scoop the coveted award. Mary Fitzpatrick said, “The jury thought that I Don’t Want To Go Back Alone took a simple story out of a very jagged path and it won because hope and love should never become redundant. “The jury this year also wanted to recognize three short films and present them with a highly commended: Fourplay San Francisco by Kyle Henry from the USA. This film shows compassion dignity and generosity. The sex worker had the most beautiful quality of being able to empower another human being. Play Name by Dave Snyder from Thailand and USA, a film about the devasting collision of mis-matched hopes and expectations. Hold On Tight by Anna Rodgers from Ireland, which reminds us that it still isn’t easy being gay today and illuminated the internal shame that many LGBT people feel.
10.10.2011 | Editor's blog Cat. : actor actress adviser Allison Lane Andrew Steggall Anna Rodgers August Lane Austin Author Brazil Cardiff chair Chicago Daniel Ribeiro Daniel Ribeiro Director Dublin Eldar Rapaport Employment Relation Entertainment Entertainment film maker France Gabriel Germany Hamburg Ireland Iris Iris Prize Israel James Kyle Henry leader LGBT culture London London Women’s Clinic Los Angeles Maria Bock Martin Briggs Mary Fitzpatrick Melbourne Miami Mumbai Murray Bartlett New York New York Norway Person Career Person Location Philadelphia Quotation Rodney Berman San Francisco Sarah Waters Switzerland Sydney TEL AVIV Thailand The 2012 Iris Prize Festival the Iris Prize Festival The Red Bike Toronto United States Wales You, Me and Him AWARDS
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