And the Winners Are…

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Martin Scorsese, Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Spacey, and other celebrities presented awards to the film competition winners of the second annual Tribeca Film Festival. The ceremony took place Sunday, May 11, at Stuyvesant High School.

Following are the award winners:
  • Best Narrative Feature: Li Yang for “Blind Shaft”

  • Best Documentary Feature: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Hugo Berkeley for “a normal life.” Honorable mentions to Laura Gabbert for “Sunset Story” and Francesca Comencino for “Carlo Giuliani, a Boy”

  • Best Documentary > 2 Feature: Moslem Mansouri for “Trial” (“Mohakeme”). Honorable mention to Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill for “Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer”

  • Emerging Narrative Feature Filmmaker: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for “It is easier for a camel... ” (“Il est plus facile pour un chameau”)

  • Emerging Documentary Feature Filmmaker: Mohamed Zran for “Song of the Millennium” (“Le chant du millenaire”)

  • Best Narrative Short Film: Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen for “Precious Moments”

  • Best Documentary Short Film: Harvey Wang for “Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones”. Special Citation to Richard Linklater for “Live From Shiva's Dance Floor”

  • MTV Films Award for Student Visionary Film: Enrico Kahn for “Make Up” (“Maquillaje”)

  • Best Actress in a Feature Film: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in “It is easier for a camel...” (“Il est plus facile pour un chameau”)

  • Best Actor in a Feature Film: Ohad Knoller in “Yossi & Jagger” and Igor Bares in ” Some Secrets” (“Vylet”)

  • The Budweiser/TriggerStreet.com Audience Award for Best Feature Film: David G. Berger, Holly Maxson, and Kate Hirson for “Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton” and Chen Kaige for “Together”

See celebrity arrivals at the ceremony

Complete photo gallery of festival by Allan Tannenbaum