Tribeca Festival Announces 2024 Competition Winners

13/06/2024

June 13th, 2024 Press Materials Available Here

Tribeca Festival Announces 2024 Competition Winners

Griffin in Summer, Bikechess, Hacking Hate Take Top Honors in U.S. Narrative, International Narrative, and Documentary Competitions

Dont You Let Me Go Receives the 12th Annual Nora Ephron Award

Come Closer and Witches Top Inaugural Viewpoints Competition

New York, NY, June 13, 2024 - The 23nd annual Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, today announced the winners in its competition categories at an awards ceremony at Racket NYC. The top honors went to Griffin in Summer for the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, Bikechess for Best International Narrative Feature, and Hacking Hate for Best Documentary Feature. Awards were given in the following competition categories: U.S. Narrative, International Narrative, Documentary, Short Film, Audio Storytelling, Games, Human / Nature, Nora Ephron, Viewpoints, AT&T Untold Stories, and Tribeca X.

The Festival, which hosts more than 570 events across New York City, concludes on June 16.

After a banner year of Tribeca programming, I do not envy our jurors' task of selecting this years winners, said Tribeca Festival Director and SVP of Programming Cara Cusumano. Im delighted to see theyve chosen to honor a diverse, international, adventurous group of films that truly reflect the Tribeca spirit. We cant wait to continue to follow and support all these films journeys into the world.

Some award winners received the unique Tribeca Festival Art Award from a selection of artists led by curator Racquel Chevremont. Supported by CHANEL, the world-class artists donated work to honored filmmakers.

Winners of the Audience Award, which are determined by audience votes throughout the Festival, will be announced at a later date.

2024 Winners and Special Jury Mentions, as selected by the 2024 Festival Jury, are as follows:

U.S. NARRATIVE COMPETITION

Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature: Griffin in Summer, director Nicholas Colia (United States) - World Premiere. Jury Statement: For its precocious and unexpected storytelling, and well-crafted performance. This award is presented by OKX.

Best Performance in a U.S. Narrative Feature: Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux for Jazzy (United States) - World Premiere. Jury statement: For its truth, unflinching honesty, realness and heart.

Special Jury Mention for Performance in a U.S. Feature: Joshua Burge for Vulcanizadora (United States) - World Premiere. Jury statement: For his impact at showing moments both heart wrenching and soulful, we were impressed by his depth and vulnerability.

Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature: Nicholas Colia for Griffin in Summer (United States) - World Premiere. Jury statement: For its delightful humor, distinct point of view and specificity of tone.

Best Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Feature: Alejandro Mejia for The Knife (United States) - World Premiere. Jury statement: For its engrossing visual aesthetic choices, its cinematic aliveness and stylistic point of view.

Special Jury Mention for Cinematography in a U.S. Feature: Ki Jin Kim for Bitterroot (United States) - World Premiere. Jury statement: For its marriage of the spiritual and the literal, and its contrast between natural beauty and the mundane.

INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE COMPETITION

Best International Narrative Feature: Bikechess, director Assel Aushakimova (Kazakhstan) - World Premiere. Jury Statement: This film caught the jury unaware. With a lightness of style and use of cinematic language that led us into a society of oppressed youth and passive leadership. With stylish performances, and generous cinematography, we met a country and the state of the world.

Special Jury Mention for an International Narrative Feature: Yasemin Samdereli for Samia (Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden) - World Premiere. Jury Statement: Special commendation for the film Samia for exploring the vital issue of refugees with humanity and integrity. Thanks to the beautiful performances by everyone involved.

Best Performance in an International Narrative Feature: Yu Aier for Some Rain Must Fall (China) - North American Premiere. Jury Statement: For her beautifully sustained performance of unabated suffering.

Best Screenplay in an International Narrative Feature: Celina Murga, Juan Villegas, Luc a Osorio for The Freshly Cut Grass (Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, United States) - World Premiere. Jury Statement: For the dexterous formality and humorous treatment of domestic chaos.

Best Cinematography in an International Narrative Feature: Constanze Schmitt for Some Rain Must Fall (China) - North American Premiere. Jury Statement: For the daring use of color and creation of searing visual tension as a cinematic reinforcement of suffering.

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Best Documentary Feature: Hacking Hate, director Simon Klose (Sweden, Denmark, Norway) - World Premiere. Jury statement: The documentary jury awards a film that bravely and fearlessly investigates the misuse of the internet to encourage hate and bias by allowing media giants to profit and foster the continuation of the outrage. On trial are first amendment freedoms that have been violated for profit.

Special Jury Mention for a Documentary Feature: Made in Ethiopia, directors Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan (United States, Canada, Ethiopia, Denmark, Korea, United Kingdom) - World Premiere. Jury statement: For its multi-faceted exploration of the personal and collective cost of today's face of globalization, we award the Special Jury Mention to MADE IN ETHIOPIA. Congratulations to the makers for opening a window to the lived experiences of those most directly impacted by the global labor industrial complex.

Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature: Ezra Wolfinger for Shelf Life (United States) - World Premiere. For a f

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