NEW YORK, NY – April 29, 2020 – Jurors Cherien Dabis and Terry Kinney announcing the winner of the ... [+]
The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival may not be taking place in physical form this year due to COVID-19, but the 19th edition of the film festival is still committed to celebrating the art of the visual narrative. The film festival, which was originally slated to take place April 15 to 26 in New York City, is now set to be tentatively rescheduled.
The winners of the juried competition were announced on April 29, with The Half of It, directed by Alice Wu, taking the top prize, the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature. In addition to the accolades, Chanel presented the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Art Awards, rewarding each winner with a piece of art. The Half of It is a groundbreaking and heartwarming feature about the friendship between an Asian lesbian and straight white male teenager who both pine for their high school classmate, captures the complicated nuances of first love. For her efforts, Chanel and the Tribeca Film Festival awarded Wu with Julian Schnabel’s 2007 oil on map work, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). The piece also has a film connection; it was also inspired by the 2007, Schnabel-directed, award-winning movie of the same name based on the heroic, yet tragic memoir of the late French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby.
The other top prizes in the US Narrative Competition Categories went to Assol Abdullina for Materna for Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film; Steve Zahn for Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film for Cowboys; Greta Zozula, Chananun Chotrungroj, and Kelly Jeffrey for Best Cinematography in the U.S. Narrative Feature Film for Materna, and Anna Kerrigan for Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film for Cowboys.
Other art prizes included a 2020 Sterling Ruby collage for Bo McGuire, who captured Best Documentary Feature for directing Socks on Fire; a 2019 Rita Ackermann oil and graphite and crayon on paper for Gaspar Antillo, who won Best New Narrative Director for Nobody Knows I’m Here; and a 2016 Gus Van Sant enamel on paper for Jessica Earnshaw, who was awarded the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award; and a 2020 Helen Marden watercolor for Jan Komasa, who took the prize for Best International Narrative Feature for The Hater (Poland).
