And the winners in 2014 are... A full list of the award winners at the 2014 Festival do Rio
The full lists of award winners for Festival do Rio for 2014 is:
Première Brasil - Redentor Trophy
Best Fiction Feature: Sangue Azul (Blue Blood), directed by Lírio Ferreira
Best Feature Length Documentary: À Queima Roupa (Point Blank), directed by Theresa Jessouroun
Best Short: Barqueiro (Boatman), directed by José Menezes and Lucas Justiniano
Best Director Feature Fiction: Lírio Ferreira for Sangue Azul (Blue Blood)
Best Director documentary: Theresa Jessouroun for À Queima Roupa (Point Blank)
Best Actor: Matheus Fagundes (Ausência / Absence)
Best Actress: Bianca Joy Porte (Prometo um dia deixar essa cidade / I Swear I'll Leave This Town)
Best Supporting Actress: Fernanda Rocha (O Último Cine Drive-In / The Last Drive-In Theatre)
Best Supporting Actor: Rômulo Braga (Sangue Azul / Blue Blood)
Best Screenplay: Murilo Salles for O Fim e os Meios (Means to an End)
Best Editing: Luisa Marques for A Vida Privada das Hipopotamos (I Touched All Your Stuff)
Best Photography: André Brandão (Obra)
Special Jury Mention for Ausência (Absence), directed by Chico Teixeira
Prize for the body of his work: Othon Bastos
Official Jury: Karim Aïnouz – President (diretor); Andrea Barata Ribeiro (producer and founder of O2 Filmes); Maurizio Braucci (screenwriter): Mike Downey (producer and deputy chairman of the European Film Academy); and Malu Mader (actress and filmmaker).
Prizes of the Première Brasil Novos Rumos (New Trends)
Best Feature Film: Castanha, directed by Davi Pretto
Best Short: Bom Comportamento (Good Behaviour), directed by Eva Randolph
With an honorary jury mention for Deusa Branca (The White Goddess), directed by Alfeu França
Novos Rumos Jury: Felipe Bragança - President (director and screenwriter); Bianca Comparato (actress) and Cavi Borges (producer and director).
Felix Awards
The winners, selected from 43 films in this year’s Festival do Rio that in some way represent LGBT culture, are:
Best Fiction Film: Xenia, directed by Panos H. Koutras (Greece/ France/ Belgium
Best Documentary: Tie and Red Nail (De Gravata e Unha Vermelha), directed by Miriam Chnaiderman (Brazil)
Special Jury Prize: 52 Tuesdays, directed by Sophie Hyde (Australia)
Felix Jury: Wieland Speck - President (filmmaker, co-founder of the Teddy Award and director of the Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section); João; Emanuel Carneiro (screenwriter); Albertina Carri (filmmaker and artisitc director of *Asterisco – The International LGBT Film Festival of Buenos Aires) and Malu de Martino (director).
Festival do Rio Audience Awards
Best Fiction Feature: Casa Grande, directed by Fellipe Gamarano
Best Feature Length Documentary: Favela Gay, directed by Rodrigo Felha
Best Short: Max Uber, directed Andre Amparo
Mostra Geração Audience Award: Finn, directed by Frans Weisz (Netherlands)
FIPRESCI Awards
Best Latin American film in the festival to: Obra, directed by Gregorio Graziosi (Brazil)
Latin American Personality of the Year: Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico)
FIPRESCI Jury: Ernesto Diez-Martinez, Mexico (Reforma e Noroeste,Icónica, Vértigo); Luiz Zanin, Brazil (O Estado de S. Paulo, president Abraccine); Roni Filgueiras, Brazil (O Dia, ACCRJ)
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