The Tribeca Film Festival handed out its hardware Thursday night, awarding the year's top prizes to an Oscar-nominated doc maker, an Iranian auteur, and new It-girl Zoe Kazan among many others.
The film's top narrative honor went to Asghar Farhadi's deceit-riddled About Elly, while the Best Documentary award was dispatched to Racing Dreams -- director Marshall Curry's follow up to his superb, Academy-fave political saga Street Fight. Ian Olds earned recognition as the fest's Best New Filmmaker for Fixer, his grim look at kidnapped journalists in Afghanistan. All of them left the party with $25,000 cash prizes, which surely made for exciting subway traveling on the way home.
Zoe Kazan won Best Actress for her turn as a heartsick epileptic in The Exploding Girl, with Ciarán Hinds claiming Best Actor for the acclaimed fest darling The Eclipse. The full list of winners is below; congrats to all, and keep an eye on your wallets.
The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature - About Elly, directed and written by Asghar Farhadi
Best New Narrative Filmmaker - Rune Denstad Langlo for North
Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film - Ciarán Hinds in The Eclipse
Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film - Zoe Kazan in The Exploding Girl
Best Documentary Feature - Racing Dreams, directed by Marshall Curry
Special Jury Mention: Defamation, directed by Yoav Shamir
Best New Documentary Filmmaker - Ian Olds for Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
Best New York Narrative - Here and There, directed and written by Darko Lungulov
Best New York Documentary - Partly Private, directed by Danae Elon
Best Narrative Short - The North Road, directed and written by Carlos Chahine
Best Documentary Short - home, directed by Matthew Faust
Special Jury Mention: The Last Mermaids, directed by Liz Chae
Student Visionary Award: Small Change, directed and written by Anna McGrath
Special Jury Mention: Oda a la Piña, directed and written by Laimir Fano
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