Bangladeshi filmmaker Nuhash Humayun’s “Pett Kata Shaw” received finest worldwide characteristic on the thirty first Raindance Film Festival‘s jury awards. British documentary filmmaker Kit Vincent received finest U.Okay. characteristic for his debut characteristic “Red Herring.”
Some 75% of this 12 months’s options are debuts and debut options swept the board on the jury awards with all eight award-winning movies being debuts.
Michael Pitt received finest efficiency for British actor Jack Huston‘s directorial debut “Day of the Fight.” Fisnik Maxville was named finest director for his debut characteristic “The Land Within,” which beforehand received awards at Tallinn Black Nights, Galway Film Fleadh and PriFest. Catalan administrators Alejandro Rojas and Sebastián Vasquez received the invention award for his or her debut characteristic “Upon Entry.”
Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman and Edivan Guajajara’s “We Are Guardians” received finest documentary whereas David Wyte received finest cinematography for “All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White.” Erika Calmeyer and Johan Fasting received finest screenplay for “Storm.”
Among the competition’s awards for shorts, following the success of their Oscar-winning brief “An Irish Goodbye,” Tom Berkeley and Ross White received the Oscar-qualifying finest in need of the competition for “The Golden West.” Shalini Adnani’s “White Ant” received finest U.Okay. brief, Sophy Romvari’s “It’s What Each Person Needs” documentary brief and Karni Arieli and Saul Freed’s “Wild Summon” animation brief.
At Raindance’s script competitors 2023 supported by Celtx, Cathriona Slammon’s “What Little Girls Are Made Of” received finest unproduced screenplay.
This 12 months’s juries included actor-director Celyn Jones, filmmakers Duncan Jones, Finn Bruce and Michael Winterbottom, actors Michael Socha, Rory Kinnear, Samuel Bottomley, Sope Dirisu and Vinette Robinson, critic Ashanti Omkar, director of acquisitions at Hanway Genevieve Segall, Mubi’s Natalie Ralph, director of MetFilm School Jonny Persey, U.Okay. Muslim Film’s Sajid Varda, senior international publicity supervisor at Universal Millen Lemma, director of public applications and audiences at BFI Jason Wood, director of shorts at Raindance Charlotte Hamblin, Bertha Doc House’s Jenny Horwell, producers Rob Watson and Nadira Murray, director-editor Claire Ferguson and founder and CEO of Together Films Sarah Mosses.
The awards occurred at London’s Wonderville. The competition runs Oct. 25-Nov. 4.
