June 21, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PLEASE:
Contact: Jeff Hill / International House of Publicity
Phone: 212-265-4373

PROVINCETOWN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL—HBO AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Sunday, June 21, 2009—(PROVINCETOWN, MA) – The HBO Audience Awards were handed out to the following films this evening at the 11th annual Provincetown International Film Festival:

Best Narrative Feature – PATRIK, AGE 1.5, directed by Ella Lemhagen
Best Documentary – HERB & DOROTHY, directed by Megumi Sasaki
Best Short Film – KINK, INC., directed by Casey Clark

On Saturday evening, Executive Director Gabby Hanna, Artistic Director Connie White and Director of Programming Andrew Peterson, awarded the 2009 Filmmaker on the Edge Award to writer/director Guy Maddin (“My Winnipeg,” “The Saddest Music in the World,” “Careful”). Actor Alessandro Nivola (“Junebug,” “Laurel Canyon,” and the upcoming 2009 films “Coco Before Chanel” and “Howl”) received the Excellence in Acting award and Strand Releasing was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

First produced in 1999 (the same year Provincetown celebrated its 100th anniversary as America’s oldest art colony) the PIFF is on the edge – artistically and geographically. Provincetown takes pride in embracing creativity and diversity in a thriving and increasingly year round tourist, business and art economy. For decades, Provincetown has attracted legendary artists, writers and filmmakers to this furthest tip of Cape Cod. Eugene O’Neill, Norman Mailer, Lily Tomlin, John Waters, Connie Francis, Helen Hayes, Billie Holiday, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Richard Gere, and Eartha Kitt have all worked and performed here to the delight the town’s cosmopolitan visitors and residents.

Presenting Sponsors of the film festival were Art House, Bacardi Dragonberry, Crown & Anchor and HBO. PIFF is also supported by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Provincetown Tourism Fund.

http://www.ptownfilmfest.org

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