Nashville Film Festival announced the prizes in feature filmmaking at the 2016 Nashville Film Festival, with top awards going to Magallanes, SEED: The Untold Story, The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, Transpecos, Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows, The Lure and Josephine. <\/p>\n
Several winning films will return for encore screenings on Saturday, April 23, at Regal Green Hills Cinema in Nashville, Tenn., at the Nashville Film Festival.<\/p>\n
The ceremony is the culmination of the 2016 festival, which represented 58 films selected for competition out of more than 1,200 submissions. <\/p>\n
Narrative Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n For telling a contemporary story about the abuse of power, the struggle for gender equality, the price of silence and the grace of redemption, the Bridgestone Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature was presented to Magallanes, directed by Salvador del Solar.<\/p>\n Honorable Mention: Free in Deed, directed by Jake Mahaffy<\/p>\n Special Jury Prize – Actor: David Harewood in Free in Deed Documentary Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n For illuminating the beauty of our connection to the land the Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize was presented to SEED: The Untold Story, directed by Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz. <\/p>\n Grand Jury Prize (tie): The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, directed by Laura Dunn<\/p>\n Honorable Mention: The Bandit, directed by Jesse Moss<\/p>\n Special Jury Prize for Badass Filmmaking: Hooligan Sparrow, directed by Nanfu Wang<\/p>\n New Director Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n For its complex characters, use of landscape and the intensity of its ethical conflicts, the New Directors Grand Jury Prize was presented to Transpecos, directed by Greg Kwedar.<\/p>\n Honorable Mention: The Fits, directed by Anna Rose Holmer<\/p>\n Special Jury Prize – Actor: Gabriel Luna in Transpecos Gibson Music Films\/Music City Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n For chronicling the rise, fall and renaissance of an R&B artist entrepreneur who never quit the hustle and finally got the recognition he deserved, the Gibson Music Films\/Music City Grand Jury Prize was presented to Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows, directed by Rob Hatch-Miller.<\/p>\n Honorable Mention: Colin Hay – Waiting for My Real Life, directed by Nate Gowtham and Aaron Faulls<\/p>\n Special Jury Prize for Best Underdog Story: Sidemen: Long Road to Glory, directed by Scott Rosenbaum<\/p>\n Graveyard Shift Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n For being everything from a cutting edge musical, to an emotionally faithful Hans Christian Anderson adaptation that would delight Fosse and Fassbinder equally, the Graveyard Shift Grand Jury Prize was presented to The Lure, directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska.<\/p>\n Honorable Mention: Curtain, directed by Jaron Henrie-McCrea<\/strong><\/p>\n Special Jury Prize – Actor: Adrian Tofei in Be My Cat: A Film for Anne Tennessee First Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n For presenting a concise, powerful portrayal of a woman in her last-ditch efforts to find her husband in the bleak final days of war, featuring incredible performances and production values, the Tennessee First Grand Jury Prize was presented to Josephine, directed by Rory Feek<\/p>\n Best Original Song<\/strong><\/p>\n Winner: “Drive It Like You Stole It,” from Sing Street<\/p>\n Sponsored Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Award: Magallanes, directed by Salvador del Solar Southwest Airlines Audience Awards Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n Special Presentations: Sing Street, directed by John Carney Nashville Film Festival announced the prizes in feature filmmaking at the 2016 Nashville Film Festival, with top awards going to Magallanes, SEED: The Untold Story, The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, Transpecos, Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows, The Lure and Josephine. Several winning films will return for encore screenings on Saturday, April\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22943,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942\/revisions\/22943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSpecial Jury Prize – Actress: Dorka Gryllus in Demimonde
\nSpecial Jury Prize for Acting Ensemble: Magallanes
\nSpecial Jury Prize for Screenplay: Eva Neymann for Song of Songs
\nSpecial Jury Prize for Music: The Lure<\/p>\n
\nSpecial Jury Prize – Actress: Brogan Ellis and Lauren McQueen in The Violators
\nSpecial Jury Prize for Production Design: The Arbalest<\/p>\n
\nSpecial Jury Prize – Actress: Marta Mazurek in The Lure
\nSpecial Jury Prize for Originality and Exceptional Editing: Curtain, directed by Jaron Henrie-McCrea<\/p>\n
\nLipscomb Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Best LGBT Film: Hunky Dory, directed by Michael Curtis Johnson
\nSteven Goldmann Visionary Award: The Lure, directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska<\/p>\n
\nBridgestone Narrative Competition: (three way tie) Demimonde, directed by Attila Sz\u00e1sz, Hunky Dory, directed by Michael Curtis Johnson and Magallanes, directed by Salvador del Solar
\nNew Directors Competition: Transpecos, directed by Greg Kwedar
\nGibson Music Films\/Music City: Colin Hay – Waiting for My Real Life, directed by Nate Gowtham and Aaron Faulls
\nTennessee First: Josephine, directed by Rory Feek
\nTennessee Horizon Audience Awards for Best Short:
\nFirst Place: The Saurus, directed by Drew Maynard
\nSecond Place: The Unbeliever, directed by Will M. Holland
\nThird Place: Three Fingers, directed by Paul D. Hart and Everyday Yeti, directed by Motke Dapp
\nFifth Place: The Van, directed by John McAmis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"