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AFI Festival winners unveiled
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| Producer Peter McAlevey and director Carla Garapedian accept
the Audience Award during AFI FEST 2006 |
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This year's AFI Festival wrapped up on Sunday night with the world premiere
of "Curse of the Golden Flower." The film, directed by Zhang Yimou, features
international superstars Gong Li and Chow Yun Fat.
Earlier in the evening the winners of the festival's awards were announced. "Grbavica,"
directed by Jasmila Zbanic, won the Grand Jury Prize in the International
Feature Competition. It's the official foreign language submission from Bosnia
and Herzegovina for this year's Academy Awards, and will be distributed in 2007
by Strand Releasing.
The Grand Jury Prize for Documentary went to "Buddha's Lost Children," directed
by Mark Verkerk. The award includes an unrestricted $10,000 grant."Disappearing"
directed by Stefanie Berk won the Grand Jury Prize in the shorts competition,
while Chris Shepard's "Silence Is Golden" received a special mention.
The Audience Award for Documentary was shared by "Blindsight," directed by Lucy
Walker, and "Screamers," directed by Carla Garapedian.
Screamers is an internationally produced documentary that covers the history
of modern-day genocide and genocide denial, beginning with the Armenian Genocide
in 1915, and how the world's inaction lead to other massacres. read more about
it and see what theater you can lookup the movie in
HERE.
Our Congratulations to Carla, the movie crew and System for the great job -:)
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