The Independent Film Festival of Boston has announced their award winners with the top prizes going to Tze Chun’s “Children of Invention,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Still Walking,” and Joe Berlinger’s documentary, “Crude.”
We’ll be totally honest, we saw a lot of films at IFFB Boston, but skipped most of these to see other films (maybe that was a bad idea?) however, we are super, super glad that Kore-eda’s low-key, but striking family drama, “Still Walking” took the audience awards as the Ozu-ish picture was immensely moving, tremendously worthy and one of our favorite films of the festival if not our favorite (review coming…) aside from possibly, “Bronson.” We also expected it to be totally overlooked. We’re bummed to see that “I Knew It Was You,” the excellent documentary about ’70s actor John Cazale, took no prizes, but one would assume the winners are worthwhile too. Andrew Bujalski’s “Beeswax” also took a special jury prize, but one our writer’s didn’t care for it much at SXSW, so we decided to venture elsewhere. Here are the winners.
Narrative Feature:
Grand Jury Prize Winner: CHILDREN OF INVENTION directed by Tze Chun
Special Jury Prize Winner: BEESWAX directed by Andrew Bujalski
Audience Award Winner: STILL WALKING directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Documentary Feature:
Grand Jury Prize Winner: CRUDE directed by Joe Berlinger
Special Jury Prize Winner: UNMISTAKEN CHILD directed by Nati Baratz
Audience Award Winner: SHOOTING BEAUTY directed by George Kachadorian
Honorable Mention: THE WAY WE GET BY directed by Aron Gaudet
Short Film:
Grand Jury Prize Winner: INSTEAD OF ABRACADABRA directed by Patrik Eklund
Special Jury Prize Winner: I AM SO PROUD OF YOU directed by Don Hertzfeldt
Audience Award Winner: SHORT TERM 12 directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
If you’re curious about these other winners (and we are too, perhaps kicking ourselves for missing them, but too be honest many people we went with and talked to didn’t seem to be hitting these either), there’s always more info at the IFFBoston site.
