June 23, 2008
PROVINCETOWN INT’L FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES
FROZEN RIVER, FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER & WHO I AM
THE WINNERS OF THE 2008 HBO AUDIENCE AWARDS
John Schlesinger Award given to BALLAST
Provincetown, Mass., (June 22, 2008)—The Provincetown Film Festival ended its 10th anniversary celebration of independent filmmaking this evening by awarding the following:
The Audience Award for Best Feature Film was given to FROZEN RIVER, directed by Courtney Hunt
The Audience Award for Best Documentary was given to FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER , directed by Irena Salina
The Audience Award for Best Short Film was given to WHO I AM, directed by Whitney Peters
The John Schlesinger Award (awarded to a first time filmmaker) was given to Lance Hammer, director of BALLAST
The Student Film Competition Grand Jury Award was given to RABIA, directed by Muhammad Ali Hasan
The Student Film Competition Special Jury Prize was given to THE SHERIFF, directed by Jeff M. Giordano
As part of the Festival’s celebration of independent careers in film, the following awards were also given over the weekend: QUENTIN TARANTINO was awarded the Filmmaker on The Edge Award (sponsored by The Boston Phoenix); GAEL GARCIA BERNAL received The Excellence In Acting Award (sponsored by Werc Werk Works): and JANE LYNCH received the Faith Hubley Memorial Award (sponsored by the Ritchie-Davis Foundation).
About PIFF: 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, 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.
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