International filmmakers and co-productionsdominated the prizes as the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival wrapped onSaturday night.
Chinese filmmaker Li Shaoshong's
Alicia Scherson won the Best New NarrativeFilmmaker prize for Play, aChile-Argentina co-production and Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary won the BestNew Documentary Filmmaker award for Brazil-US co-production
Georgia Lee's Red Doors was judged Best Made in New York Narrative Feature, withAlexandria Brodsky's Bittersweet Placereceiving a Special Mention in the category. NY Loves Film Documentary prizewent to US-France co-production RikersHigh from director Victor Buhler. John Kirby's The American Ruling Class, which dubs itself a dramatic documentarymusical, earned a special mention.
The Tribeca All Access Creative PromiseAward for Narrative Feature went to TheLife & Times Of H.J. Hermin by Dennis Lee while Usama Alshaibi's
A host of famous faces was on hand to handout the prizes including Tim Robbins, Denis Leary, Rosie Perez and GriffinDunne and Eddie Izzard. The festival presented more than 250 films from 45countries.
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