The Nashville Film Festival has announced the 45th Annual Competition winners, with the Gibson Music City/Music Films Award Grand Jury Prize going to the documentary “Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me,” about the country music legend’s battle with Alzheimer’s (which recently sent him to a long-term care facility).
An honorable mention went to “The Ballad of Shovels and Rope,” about the folk duo, which also won the Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Feature.
The Grand Jury Prize winner of the Bridgestone Narrative Competition was Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke’s “Club Sandwich,” the bittersweet tale of a young single mother and her teenage son dealing with his coming of age. “Little Brother” earned an honorable mention.
In the Documentary Competition, the Grand Jury Prize went to “BESA: The Promise,” about Nazi-occupied Albania and the protection of the Jews by the mostly Muslim population. An honorable mention went to the Joe Paterno documentary “Happy Valley,” while a Special Jury Prize was awarded to “Kidnapped for Christ.”
The New Directors Narrative Competition prizewinner was “Before I Disappear,” whcih premiered at SXSW, while the Graveyard Shift Competition Award went to the controversial German coming-of-age film “Wetlands.”
The full list of winners is below.
Gibson Music City/Music Films Award
Grand Jury Prize: Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me
Honorable Mention: The Ballad of Shovels and Rope
Bridgestone Narrative Competition Award Winners
Grand Jury Prize: Club Sandwich
Honorable Mention: Little Brother
Best Actor: Manolis Mavromatakis, The Enemy Within
Best Actress: Britt Robertson, Undiscovered Gyrl
Documentary Competition Award Winners
Grand Jury Prize: BESA: The Promise
Honorable Mention: Happy Valley
Special Jury Prize: Kidnapped for Christ
New Directors Narrative Competition Awards
Grand Jury Prize: Before I Disappear
Honorable Mention: 1982
Honorable Mention: Drunktown’s Finest
Best Actor: Jeremiah Bitsui, Drunktown’s Finest
Best Actress: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Medeas
Graveyard Shift Competition Awards
Grand Jury Prize for Feature Film: Wetlands
Honorable Mention for Feature Film: You and the Night
Best Actor: Eric Cantona, You and the Night
Best Actress: Carla Juri, Wetlands and Robin Wright, The Congress (Tie)
Grand Jury Prize for Short Film: The Voice Thief
Honorable Mention for Short Film: Kekasih
Special Jury Prize for Direction: Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani – The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears
Special Jury Prize for Cinematography Manuel Dacosse – The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears
Louise LeQuire Award for Best Screenplay
Bernard Attal, The Invisible Collection
Special Jury Prize for Art and Activism
Alive Inside: A Film About Memory and Music
Special Jury Prize for GLBT Filmmaking
The Case Against 8 – Ben Cotner & Ryan White
Special Jury Prize for Original Vision
Buzzard Special
Jury Prize for Cultural Significance
Love Me
Best Original Song in a Feature Film
“Davina” from I Believe in Unicorns – Sasha Gordon, Composer
Film Musicians Secondary Market Fund Best Music in a Feature Film
Undiscovered Gyrl
Best Feature Film by a Woman | Presented by WIFT
The Winding Stream
Best Short Directed by a Woman | Presented by WIFT
Helpless
NPT Human Spirit Award
The Starfish Throwers
Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Award
The Invisible Collection
Lipscomb Ecumenical Prize
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