After over a week-long stir up of parties, premieres, and celebrations of world cinema, the dust finally begins to settle as the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival moves to the close of another successful year. Many new things happened at the festival, including free online screenings of select films for viewers nationwide. And starting this year, the festival featured two competition sections, World Narrative and World Documentary, plus three out-of-competition sections: Cinemania, Spotlight and Viewpoints. Also introduced were new awards for films in competition, honoring cinematography, screenwriting and editing, thereby providing further opportunity for recognition in these fields. New this year too, the Best New Narrative Director and Best New Documentary Director awards were open to any of the competing filmmakers who made the North American or wider premiere of a first feature film.

The awards ceremony took place Thursday evening at the luxurious W Hotel in Union Square, where the winners were announced. The Swedish She-Monkeys earned  the top narrative prize, and Bombay Beach was voted best documentary feature. Each film received an art award of $25,000.

According to some executives, the festival marketplace is starting to grow, which makes them more optimistic about the independent cinema film selections presented at Tribeca. And while the festival is not as commercial as Sundance, it is gaining a lot more respect from buyers. Magnolia Pictures scooped up the most acquisitions, picking up three films including Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Blackthorn, and Limelight. Other notable acquisitions throughout the week included The Bully Project, acquired by The Weinstein Company, and Klitschko, by Corinth Films.

Other awards from the World Narrative Competition category include:

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film: Ramadhan “Shami” Bizimana as Yvan in Grey Matter (Matière Grise), directed and written by Kivu Ruhorahoza (Rwanda, Australia). Winner received $2,500.

Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film: Carice van Houten as Ingrid Jonker in Black Butterflies, directed by Paula van der Oest, written by Greg Latter (Germany, Netherlands, South Africa). Winner received $2,500. The award was presented by Rula Jebreal.

Best Cinematography: Luisa Tillinger for Artificial Paradises (Paraisos Artificiales) (Mexico).  Winner received $5,000 and $50,000 in post-production services provided by Company 3.

Best Screenplay for a Narrative Feature Film: Jannicke Systad Jabobsen for Turn Me On, Goddammit (Få meg på, for faen) (Norway). Winner received $5,000.

Best New Narrative Director: Park Jungbum, writer and director of Journals of Musan (Musan Il-gi) (South Korea). Winner received $25,000, sponsored by American Express; $50,000 in post-production services provided by Company 3. Art Award:  Double Happiness by Nate Lowman.

Below are the awards from the World Documentary Competition.

Best Documentary Feature: Bombay Beach, directed by Alma Har’el (USA, Israel). Winner received $25,000. The Art Award went to Nathans by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao.

Best Editing in a Documentary Feature: Purcell Carson for Semper Fi: Always Faithful (USA). Winner received $5,000.

Best New Documentary Director: Pablo Croce for Like Water (USA). Winner received $25,000, sponsored by American Express. Art Award: Path to the Stage by Inka Essenhigh.

From the Short Film Competition:

Best Narrative Short: Man and Boy, directed by David Leon and Marcus McSweeney, written by David Leon and Rashid Rasaq (UK). Winner received $5,000, sponsored by Persol, and 5,000 feet of film stock donated by Kodak. Art Award: Gold Dust (Undeclared) by Taryn Simon.

(Photo by Patrycja Adamowska)