The Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010

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Red Carpet film Premiers at The Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010

 

The Edinburgh International Film Festival Awards Ceremony 2010

The start of the Edinburgh International Film Festival Awards Ceremony 2010

Ian Smith announcing the start of the awards ceremony and Hannah McGill

Hannah McGill Artistic Director  announcing the winners of the 2010 EIFF

Tilda Swinton holding a bottle of champagne and award for the awards ceremony

America Fererra and Ryan Piers Williams holding up the award for Dry Lands

America Fererra giving a speech at the awards ceremony at the EIFF

Hannah McGill Artistic Director and Seamus McGarvey announcing the award winners

Aaron Schneider giving Seamus McGarvey a hug for winning

Aaron Schneider thanking Seamus McGarvey

Aaron Schneider and Seamus McGarvey thanking the audience for the award

David Thewlis giving a speech for winning the PPG Award

David Thewlis thanking the jury for winning the PPG Award

Laurence Kardish from the jury and David Thewlis

Nick Whitfield holding up the Michael Powell Award

Nick Whitfield thanking the audience for winning the Michael Powell Award

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AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT 64th EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 June... The Edinburgh International Film Festival today announced the winners in the six competition categories for feature films at an Awards Ceremony prior to the Closing Gala of the world premiere of THIRD STAR. The awards were presented by EIFF Artistic Director Hannah McGill and Patrons Tilda Swinton and Seamus McGarvey on the penultimate day of the Festival at Cineworld. This year’s winners are:

The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film, sponsored by the UK Film Council
SKELETONS – Directed by Nick Whitfield

PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film
DAVID THEWLIS in Mr Nice

Projector.tv Best International Feature Award
THE DRY LAND – Directed by Ryan Piers Williams

Moët New Directors Award
GARETH EDWARDS for Monsters

Best Feature Documentary Award
THE OATH – Directed by Laura Poitras

Standard Life Audience Award
The Award will be announced at the Awards Ceremony

This year’s Michael Powell Jury were actor Sir Patrick Stewart who presided over the five-strong Jury: director Mike Hodges; film curator Laurence Kardish; director Rafi Pitts and actress Britt Ekland.

The Jury citation read: “The Michael Powell Jury, having considered the eleven films in competition for the Best New British Feature Film, is pleased to announce two unanimous decisions. A Special Mention to Edward and Rory McHenry for their animated revision of modern British history, JACKBOOTS ON WHITEHALL, and the Michael Powell Award goes to writer/director Nick Whitfield whose debut feature SKELETONS best exemplifies the spirit of Michael Powell in its original vision and dark humour.”

On awarding David Thewlis the PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film, the Jury cited: “The Michael Powell Jury is pleased to announce it has unanimously decided to present the PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film to David Thewlis for his energetic and electrifying performance as Jim McCann in Bernard Rose’s feature MR NICE.”

David Thewlis commented: “This is a thrill and totally unexpected, and made all the more special by being honoured by one of my favourite cities in the world. Thank you.”

Lizzie Francke, Senior Production Executive with the UK Film Council, sponsor of the Michael Powell and Best British Short Film awards added: "The UK Film Council’s support for Edinburgh's film festival and the Michael Powell award underlines our commitment to promote and nurture new British film talent. Nick Whitfield's Skeletons is an imaginative and touching debut film and winning the Michael Powell award confirms he is a talent to look out for. And in looking at new talent coming through short filmmaking, Daniel Mulloy's Baby proves he is a writer/director with enormous promise."

The Projector.tv Best International Feature Award was deliberated by a Jury of three: comedian/director Ben Miller, actor Jason Isaacs and producer Lynda Myles.  

The Jury citation read: “The winner is THE DRY LAND. We thought this delicate and emotional film took a subject that could have been predictable and explored it with a refreshing subtlety of characterisation, with universally beautiful performances and with a respect for the audience’s intelligence that made it not only a superbly told, gripping and relevant story, but a natural and unanimous winner.
We’d also like to commend two other films that gave us an enormous amount of pleasure locked, as we were, in dark rooms all day during the longest unbroken stretch of Edinburgh sunshine on record: For transporting us with a magnificent aesthetic flair, for its hypnotic cast and for creating an entirely believable world of monstrously amoral hit men that, despite ourselves, we all wanted to hang out with, we commend the epic landscape of SNOWMAN’S LAND.

And for giving us 2 hours of unbridled snorting laughter with a bucket-load of soppily embarrassing feelgood tears thrown in for good measure, we commend the unalloyed good time that is BARRY MUNDAY.”

The Moët New Directors Award was deliberated by a Jury of three, and their citation read: “The very high standard of the competitors for the Moët New Director's Award made the selection process as difficult as it was pleasurable. There were, for all of the jurors, four stand-out films. We would like to give special mentions to NOTHING PERSONAL, SON OF BABYLON and WINTER’S BONE. And we give the award, which acknowledges both ability and potential, to MONSTERS and its maker Gareth Edwards, whose extraordinary talents we confidently expect to see a great deal more of in the years to come.”

EIFF Artistic Director, Hannah McGill said: “We have had a tremendous festival experience this year, and it's a particular pleasure to close with the world premiere of a film as beautiful, idiosyncratic and moving as Third Star. I warmly congratulate all of our award-winners, as well as the generous supporters of those awards; and I thank the wonderful people on our juries for their enthusiasm and dedication.”

The Documentary Jury citation read: “The jury found themselves faced with a difficult choice between two very different but oddly complementary films. We would first like to make a special mention: of Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's RESTREPO, for its visceral intensity and unflinching honesty. But in recognition of the complexity and subtlety of its storytelling; the brilliance of its conception and execution; and the presence of an authorial voice that is strong without being didactic, the jury awards the EIFF 2010 Best Feature Documentary Award to Laura Poitras for THE OATH.”

All feature film winners also received a personalised magnum of Moët champagne, and attending the ceremony in Edinburgh to receive their awards in person were: Nick Whitfield for SKELETONS, Ryan Piers Williams and America Ferrera for THE DRY LAND and David Thewlis for MR NICE.

The EIFF 2010 Short Film Awards, which were presented at a ceremony on Tuesday evening in Edinburgh, went to:
UK Film Council Award For Best British Short Film
BABY – Directed by Daniel Mulloy

Best International Short Film Award sponsored by Steedman & Company
RITA – Directed by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza

Scottish Short Documentary Award supported by Baillie Gifford
MARIA’S WAY – Directed by Anne Milne

McLaren Award for Best New British Animation in partnership with BBC Film Network
STANLEY PICKLE – Directed by Victoria Mather

Short Film Nominee Edinburgh, for the European Film Awards 2010
MARIA’S WAY – Directed by Anne Milne

The film that won the EIFF 2010 Standard Life Audience Award was
GET LOW – Directed by Aaron Schneider.

Standard Life Audience Award
Sponsored by Standard Life since 1997, the winner is chosen by audience votes from the Gala and British Gala sections.

The Festival kindly request your support in acknowledging the Awards sponsors.

The Michael Powell Award

Named in homage to one of Britain’s most original filmmakers and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award has been supported by the UK Film Council since 2001. Rewarding imagination and creativity in British filmmaking, the award is judged by an international jury and carries a cash prize of £15,000.

PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film

Thanks to the generous support of PPG, 2010 sees the fourth year of the award to honour the Best Performance in a British feature film. The award is judged by the Michael Powell Jury.

Projector.tv Award for Best International Feature Film

Open to feature films originating outside of the UK, in all sections of the programme, which are receiving their world or international premiere at the Festival, the award carries a cash prize of £5,000 thanks to the support from new Festival sponsor, Projector.tv

Moët New Directors Award

Supported by Moët for the first time, this award is to acknowledge new interpretation and innovation in filmmaking and underlines one of the basic tenets of the EIFF, which is to be a festival of discovery. The award, judged by jury, is selected from first and second time filmmakers in the Rosebud and British Gala sections. There is a cash prize of £5000.

Standard Life Audience Award

Sponsored by Standard Life since 1997, the winner is chosen by audience votes from the Gala and British Gala sections.

Best Documentary Feature Award

In 2006 EIFF introduced an award for Best Documentary Feature. The award recognises a singular and compelling achievement in non-fiction filmmaking and is intended to honour work which reveals a fascination with a particular subject, rendered onscreen with style, truthfulness and integrity to its sources. There is a cash prize of £5000.

UK Film Council Award for Best British Short Film Award

Judged by an international jury with a cash prize of £1000, this award recognizes new talent in UK filmmaking. The award has been supported by the UK Film Council since 2004.

Best International Short Film Award sponsored by Steedman & Company

All short fiction of under 30 minutes duration from a non-UK country of origin is eligible for the award, which is intended to affirm the Festival’s long-established support of international short filmmakers and to provide profile and encouragement for the feature filmmakers of the future. The award carries a cash prize of £1000.

Scottish Short Documentary Award supported by Baillie Gifford

Supporting Scottish talent, this award rewards first and second time short documentary filmmakers either working in, or from, Scotland. There is a cash prize of £1000.

McLaren Award for New British Animation in partnership with BBC Film Network

This award provides a focus for new British animation and recognises the free spirit of creativity. This award is supported in 2010 for the fifth year by BBC Film Network. There is a cash prize of £1000.

Short Film Nominee Edinburgh for the European Film Awards 2010

An initiative by the European Film Academy in association with the Edinburgh International Film Festival and a series of other festivals throughout Europe. One of the winning short films at EIFF will win a nomination for the European Film Academy Short Film 2010.

About the Edinburgh International Film Festival:

Since 1947, the Edinburgh International Film Festival has devoted itself to discovering and promoting the very best in international cinema - and to embracing, celebrating and debating changes and developments in the global film industry. Intimate in its scale, ambitious in its scope, and fuelled by pure passion for cinema in all its manifestations, EIFF seeks to expose the cutting edge of new film talent, in a setting steeped in history.
Notable films premiered in recent years have included: THE HURT LOCKER, MOON, FISHTANK, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, SOMERS TOWN, MAN ON WIRE, WALL-E, CONTROL, KNOCKED UP, RATATOUILLE, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, TSOTSI, BILLY ELLIOT, AMORES PERROS and AMÉLIE.

The EIFF is supported by:

The UK Film Council through its Lottery supported Film Festivals Fund.

The UK Film Council is the Government backed lead agency for film in the UK. They aim to make sure that the UK has a dynamic film industry fit for the digital age and to help UK audiences enjoy the best of British and world cinema.

Scottish Screen is the national agency responsible for the development and promotion of Scotland’s screen industries and culture focusing on talent, audiences, businesses and stories.

Event Scotland - working to make Scotland one of the world’s leading event destinations.
City of Edinburgh Council, Culture and Sport Division, Corporate Services Department.
Cineworld is proud to be a sponsor of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Standard Life are delighted to continue their partner sponsorship of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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