{"id":35994,"date":"2025-06-14T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=35994"},"modified":"2025-06-14T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:30:37","slug":"2025-tribeca-competition-categories-us-narrative-international-narrative-documentary-viewpoints-award-greggwmorris-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/2025-tribeca-competition-categories-us-narrative-international-narrative-documentary-viewpoints-award-greggwmorris-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2 – 2025 Tribeca Competition Categories: U.S. Narrative, International, Documentary, Viewpoints Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Narrative<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature: Charliebird, director Libby Ewing (United States) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury Statement: \u201cA deeply affecting portrait featuring grounded and complex performances, this film is an assured and well-crafted debut.\u201c This award is presented by OKX.<\/p>\n

Special Jury Mention for Best U.S. Narrative Feature: Esta Isla (This Island), directors Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina (Puerto Rico) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cA compelling depiction of a place, this film is a lush and stunningly realized reckoning with class, love and history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Performance in a U.S. Narrative Feature: Gabriela Ochoa Perez for Charliebird (United States) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cThis actor delivers a fresh performance that is at once ferocious and vulnerable. She grounds a young woman\u2019s painful journey in humanity and truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature: Isabel Hagen for On a String (United States) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cA nimble, witty and accomplished story that chronicles the ups and downs of a young woman who has to face the music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Feature: Cedric Cheung-Lau for Esta Isla (This Island) (Puerto Rico) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cBeautifully lensed, this film is full of unforgettable and evocative imagery. Lovingly rendered, it is equally adept at capturing the intimate details and grandest vistas.\u201d<\/p>\n

International Narrative<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Best International Narrative Feature: Happy Birthday, director Sarah Goher (Egypt) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cFor its authentic and complex portrayal of class, motherhood, and loss of innocence, along with outstanding performances – especially by its young star – and its brilliant nuanced writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Special Jury Mention for International Narrative Feature: Cuerpo Celeste, director Nayra Ilic Garc\u00eda (Chile, Italy) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cFor its fantastic central performance, arresting visuals, and subtle storytelling that touches on both a changing political landscape and the aftermath of grief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Performance in an International Narrative Feature: Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn for Dragonfly (United Kingdom) \u2013 World Premiere. \u201cFor an audience, there is nothing as exciting as watching actors bravely and fully immerse themselves in characters who leave us filled with both empathy and dread – and so for their daring and electrifying turns, we are thrilled to present Best Performance in and International Film to Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Screenplay in an International Narrative Feature: Mohamed Diab and Sarah Goher for Happy Birthday (Egypt) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cFor its profound and yet economical storytelling, compelling characters, and wonderfully crafted dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Cinematography in an International Narrative Feature: Lev Predan Kowarski for Little Trouble Girls (Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia) \u2013 North American Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cFor its evocative tone and rich sensual texture, which conjured the fragility of a singular summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Documentary<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Best Documentary Feature: Natchez, director Suzannah Herbert (United States) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cWho tells America\u2019s story? In a country where the rewriting and abject erasure of African American history threatens a truthful understanding of who we are, the jury applauds this film\u2019s focus on a southern town, once one of America\u2019s largest slave markets, whose economic mainstay is now historic tours. The film\u2019s incisive, razor-sharp craft, its deft navigation of myriad participants without ever losing clarity, its timeliness, its humor, its confrontation of naked racism, yet its refusal to flatten its Mississippian storytellers\u2014however flawed\u2014into easy villains, for being artful, honest, and deeply compassionate, the jury\u2014unanimously and unequivocally\u2014awards a film that brings us hope not for an America that can agree, but one that might understand each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Special Jury Mention for Documentary Feature: An Eye for an Eye, directors Tanaz Eshaghian and Farzad Jafari (Denmark, Iran, United States) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cAt a time when women\u2019s rights are eroding globally, the jury would be remiss if we did not recognize the courageous, unflinching, gut wrenching, verit\u00e9 virtuosity of a film set in a society that severely limits women\u2019s rights, even those of victims of extreme domestic violence. The story unfolds in real time with life and death hanging in the balance, leaving the audience breathlessly invested in the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature: Chance Falkner and Johnny Friday for The Last Dive (United States) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cAfter a passionate debate, we award a film which immersed us in a natural world where the meeting between man and animal literally changes the course of preservation history, and the redemption of a broken soul. For its sweeping aerial and underwater footage, shocking archival witness, and intimate portrait of a person confronting morality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Special Jury Mention for Cinematography in a Documentary Feature: Noah\u202fCollier for Natchez (United States) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cFor its idiosyncratic visual storytelling, masterfully timed and restrained camerawork, and photography as close, wide and open as the film\u2019s curious heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Editing in a Documentary Feature: Soren B. Ebbe and Hayedeh Safiyari for An Eye for an Eye (Denmark, Iran, United States) \u2013 World Premiere. \u201cFor its narrative precision, for locking us inside a moral crucible without relief, and for weaving a multigenerational, deeply personal story that gives equal weight to all participants with searing emotional impact, and for the clarity and courage of its storytelling. Not one frame feels gratuitous as the film barrels relentlessly towards its conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Special Jury Mention for Editing in a Documentary Feature: Pablo Proenza for Natchez (United States) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cThe editing seamlessly balances all the elements of an extremely complicated story, and delivers a powerful impact that resonates long after the film concludes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Viewpoints Award<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A Bright Future, director Lucia Garibaldi (Uruguay, Argentina, Germany) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cThis year\u2019s Viewpoints award goes to a film driven by an original, inventive voice. The filmmaker creates a seamless world that is captivating, thought-provoking, fresh and increasingly relevant. Weaving themes of the fetishization of youth, the timeless pursuit of dreams, and what makes us human, and anchored by a pitch perfect performance from their lead actress, we are pleased to award this year’s Viewpoint prize to A Bright Future. We believe Lucia Garibaldi has a very bright future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Special Jury Mention for Viewpoints: Kites, director Walter Thompson-Hernandez (Brazil) \u2013 World Premiere. Jury statement: \u201cSpecial Jury Prize goes to a film with astounding cinematography that balances verite with magical realism and upends conventional story structure. The love the filmmaker has for his characters and their community writ large was infectious. We all think we have time but the angels let us know we have to hurry and become the people who want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 24th annual Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, announced competition winners with CHARLIEBIRD, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and NATCHEZ taking top honors in the U.S. Narrative, International Narrative, and Documentary competitions. The Competition categories represent the breadth of Tribeca\u2019s programming with awards for U.S. Narrative, International Narrative, Documentary, Viewpoints, Nora Ephron, Short Film, Best New Directors, Audio Storytelling, Games, AT&T Untold Stories, and Tribeca X. The Festival concludes June 15.
 
\u201cEvery year at Tribeca we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,Tribeca Festival Director and SVP of Programming Cara Cusumano was quoted as saying in a press release. \u201cWe are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.\u201d <\/p>\n

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