Four days of screenings at the Tribeca Cinemas,
with 31 movies from 14 different countries...
photo: denzil coxall
Thanks everyone for a great 2008 festival!
photo: dina litovksy
Lines sneak around the block on Saturday night for the screening of
How To Be.
2008 GOTHAM SCREEN Circleframe Awards announced
The winning films and screenplays were annnounced on the closing day of the 2008 Gotham Screen Film Festival, Sunday, Nov 2, 2008:
Audience Award - Pretty Ugly People
Tate Taylor, director
Best Feature - The Other Half (L'Autre Moitié)
Rolando Colla, director
Best Documentary - Face Addict
Edo Bertoglio, director
Best Photography - Left Bank (Linkeroever)
Nicolas Karakatsanis, Cinematographer/DP
Best Actress - Eline Kuppens, Left Bank (Linkeroever)
Best Actor - Robert Pugh, Goodnight Irene
Best Short Film - Word On The Street
Nick Barbieri, director
Winners of the 2008 GOTHAM SCREEN Screenwriting Awards:
Best Screenplay - The Virgin Of Poughkeepsie
A romantic comedy, by Eva Konstantopoulos - Winner of the $2,500 Circleframe Screenwriting Award, sponsored by Triboro Pictures.
Best Comedy - The Method
by Beth Overmyer
Best Drama - Lone Scout
by Alan O'Connor
Best Adventure - The Legend of Jean Lafitte
by C. Robert Holloway
Best Children's/Family - The Magical Kingdom of Naga as Envisioned by the Princess Lena
by Tanya Klein
Best Horror - Buzz
by Mark Cerulli
Best Thriller - American Gothic
by Melissa Bruning
Congratulations to all the winners!
Complete lists of all screenplay contest semi-finalists and finalists can be found here...
Opening Night Premiere:
"Left Bank (Linkeroever)" Belgium 2008
starring Eline Kuppens, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marilou Mermans; Dir: Pieter Van Hees
Closing Night Premiere:
"Pretty Ugly People" US 2008
starring Missi Pyle, Melissa McCarthy, Josh Hopkins, Octavia Spencer, Dir: Tate Taylor
Special Screening:
"How to Be" UK 2008
starring Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Hardy; Dir: Oliver Irving
About the Festival:
The 2nd Annual GOTHAM SCREEN Film Festival and Screenplay Contest will take place October 30th thru November 2nd
2008 in New York City.
Following the
success of the 2007 edition, this year's event has been expanded to
showcase short and feature films during four days of screenings. The festival will present more than 30 films from 14 different countries, over 25 of these are World, US or New York premieres.
GOTHAM SCREEN presents fresh voices and perspectives from local, national and international filmmakers. The mission of the festival is to create a positive industry and audience exposure for works that would otherwise not easily get seen, and give New Yorkers a chance to see fresh, undiscovered cinema from around the US, and the world.
The GOTHAM SCREEN film festival showcases cutting-edge feature, documentary and short films from independent, first- or second-time directors as well as international releases making their East Coast or US debut.
GOTHAM SCREEN tries to connect overlooked US and international films with a discerning New York audience, with the aim of boosting both the films’ and the filmmaker’s profiles in what has become an increasingly overloaded marketplace. GOTHAM SCREEN focuses exclusively on new names and lesser known filmmaking regions. The festival aims to be truly a place for new discoveries, for both audiences and industry professionals.
The 2008 Screenplay Contest comes new with a $2,500 cash prize for the winning screenplay. In addition, excerpts from a finalist screenplay contest entry will be performed live by professional actors at a staged reading during the festival. The winners of the film contest will receive valuable production software, and other production-related gifts and prizes.
