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Posted Sunday, May 7th, 2006 - 1 Comment »
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'Treatment,' 'When I Came Home' Make City Proud as Tribeca Wraps Up


Well, that was fast: Tribeca ’06 handed out its hardware last night, and the festival ends today with three theaters devoting their entire days to the chosen few films. Blessed by Fire, The War Tapes and Voices of Bam claimed the top international prizes, while The Treatment (narrative), When I Came Home (doc) and Native New Yorker (short) won big among the NY, NY selections. Linda Hattendorf’s excellent The Cats of Mirikitani (right) took the Audience Award back home to Soho.
For the full list of winners and a schedule of today’s award-winner screenings, follow the jump. Meanwhile, I am playing tour guide for my entire family this week in New York, so excuse the next few days of sporadic posting. I should have a Summer Preview Review in place by Wednesday; judging from the looks of what I have read so far, you may need it.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and thanks for following Tribeca with me!

The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – Blessed By Fire (Iluminados por el Fuego), Directed by Tristán Bauer, Argentina, Spain.

Best Documentary Feature – War Tapes, Directed by Deborah Scranton, USA.

Special Documentary Jury Prize – Voices of Bam, Directed by Aliona van der Horst and Maasja Ooms, Netherlands.

Outstanding achievement in documentary to Jesus Camp, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, USA; Jonestown:The Life and Death of Peoples Temple , directed by Stanley Nelson, USA; MAQUILOPOLIS: city of factories, directed by Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre, USA/Mexico.

Best New Narrative Filmmaker – Marwan Hamed for The Yacoubian Building (Omaret Yacoubian), Egypt.

Best New Documentary Filmmaker – Pelin Esmer for The Play (Oyun), Turkey.

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film – Jürgen Vogel in The Free Will (Der Freie Wille), Germany. Special mention to Adel Imam, The Yacoubian Building (Omaret Yacoubian), Egypt.

Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film – Eva Holubovà in Holiday Makers (Ucastnici zájezdu), Czech Republic. Special mention to the ensemble cast of Holiday Makers (Ucastnici zájezdu).

NY Loves Film Documentary – When I Came Home, Directed by Dan Lohaus, USA. Honorable mention to Jack Smith and the Destruction Of Atlantis, Directed by Mary Jordan, USA and The Cats of Mirikitani, Directed by Linda Hattendorf, USA.

Best Made in New York Narrative Feature – The Treatment, Directed by Oren Rudavsky, USA.
Honorable mention to A Very Serious Person, Directed by Charles Busch, USA.

Best Narrative Short – The Shovel, Directed by Nick Childs, USA. Special mention to Topor and Me (Topor et moi), Directed by Sylvia Kristel, Netherlands.

Best Documentary Short – Native New Yorker, Directed by Steve Bilich, USA.

Student Visionary Award – Dead End Job, Directed by Samantha Davidson Green, USA.

Audience Award – The Cats of Mirikitani, Directed by Linda Hattendorf, USA.

Tribeca Film Institute/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenplay Development Winners –Signature series: The Starry Messenger, Screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan. Main program: Project Mustard, Screenwriter Ban Zeff & Producer Andrew Bendel and Challenger, Screenwriter Nicole Perlman.

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Narrative Feature – “Before the Beast Returns” by Sterlin Harjo.

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature– “Outside the Box” by Lacey Schwartz.
Honorable mention – Free Angela & All Political Prisoners by Shola Lynch.

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Screenwriting – Milton Liu for “John Hughes Ruined My Life”. Honorable mention – Ose Oyamendan for Resistance.

SCREENING SCHEDULE FOR AWARD-WINNERS:
Regal Cinemas Battery Park: (Theater 5) When I Came Home, 1 p.m.; Blessed By Fire, 4 p.m.; (Theater 11) The Yacoubian Building, 11 a.m.; The Treatment, 2 p.m.; The Cats of Mirikitani, 5 p.m.
Tribeca Cinemas 1: The Play (Oyun), 10 a.m., 4 p.m.; The War Tapes, 1 p.m.; 7 p.m.

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One Response to “'Treatment,' 'When I Came Home' Make City Proud as Tribeca Wraps Up”

  1. redbecca says:
    May 8, 2006 at 9:53 am

    I hope you and your parents had fun. I have major eyeball fatigue, and may wind up giving my personal best picture award to Steven Colbert at the Whitehouse Correspondents’ Dinner, and Bush may get worst performance by an actor in a supporting role.
    As for Tribeca, They showed “Voices of Bam” instead of the “War Tapes” at the second doc. winner screening on Sunday night. It was beautiful and unusual. However, as soon as Scarlet came out to introduce the film, I was so confused about why I was sitting in the “Vocies of Bam” screening instead of the “War Tapes” that I missed the entire explanation of how the film was made.

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon