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Oct 28, 2010
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Philadelphia Film Festival Award Winners

PFS revealed the winners of the Juried & Audience Awards at the 19th Philadelphia Film Festival:

Best Narrative Feature: Carancho
Special Jury Prize for Best Actor: Emil Abossolo M'Bo in A Screaming Man (dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Special Jury Prize for Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert in Copacabana (dir. Marc Fitoussi)

Best Documentary Feature: Life 2.0

Archie Award for Best First Feature: Hesher

Filmadelphia Award for Best Local Feature: Lebanon, PA

Best Short Film: Kelp
Special Jury Prize: Gayby (dir. Jonathan Lisecki)
Special Jury Prize for Best Actor in a short: Pat Healy in Oil Change (dir. Todd Luoto)

Audience Award: Louder Than a Bomb (dir. Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel)
Spotlights Special Mention: Conviction (dir. Tony Goldwyn)
Masters of Cinema Special Mention: Poetry (dir. Lee Chang-don)
World Narratives Special Mention: Alamar (dir. Pedro González-Rubio)
New French Film Special Mention: The Princess of Montpensier (dir. Bertrand Tavernier)
American Independents Special Mention: The Happy Poet (dir. Paul Gordon)
Sight and Soundtrack Special Mention: LENNONYC (dir. Michael Epstein)
Greater Filmadelphia Special Mention: OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive Major Depression, Bipolar, Aspergers's Movie (dir. Bud Clayman, Scott Johnston and Glen Holsten)
Graveyard Shift Special Mention: The Man From Nowhere (dir. Lee Jeong-beom)
Cinema of Sex Special Mention: Sex Magic (dir. Jonathan Schell and Eric Liebman)