All is Well won the Narrative Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival over the weekend. Directed by Pocas Pascoal the North American premiere follows to Angolan sisters feeling civil war and struggle to survive in Lisbon. Honorable mention in the category went to Thursday Till Sunday by Dominga Sotomayor. Best Documentary went to Drought by Everardo Gonzalez. The film is a poetic portrait of a cattle-ranching community in northeastern Mexico. In the Audience Award category, Best Narrative Feature went to Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild The film won Cannes and Sundance earlier this year. And Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives by sara Lamm and mary Wigmore won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.
Award Winners with information provided by LAFF:
Narrative Award (for Best Narrative Feature)
Winner: All is Well directed by Pocas Pascoal?Producer: Luis Correia?Cast: Ciomara Morais, Cheila Lima, William Brandao, Vera Cruz
Film Description: (Portugal) Strangers in a strange land, two beautiful Angolan sisters fleeing a civil war in their homeland struggle to survive in Lisbon. Pocas Pascoal?s deeply personal saga shows us the face of exile with quietly stunning power.
Honorable Mention (for Best Narrative Feature)
Film Title: Thursday till Sunday directed by Dominga Sotomayor?Producers: Gregorio Gonz�lez, Benjamin Domenech?Cast: Santi Ahumada, Emiliano Freifeld, Francisco P�rez-Bannen, Paola Giannini
Film Description: (Chile) With uncommon beauty and style, this Chilean road movie finds a family at a crossroads, as the daughter slowly realizes the divide between the adults in the front seat and the kids in back.
Documentary Award (for Best Documentary Feature)
Winner: Drought directed by Everardo Gonz�lez?Producer: Martha Orozco
Film Description: (Mexico) Contrasting the lives of a cattle-ranching community with the arid northeastern Mexican landscape that surrounds them, this cin�ma v�rit� documentary paints a poetic portrait…
Dido Diora Baird Dita Von Teese Dominique Swain Donna Feldman Drea de Matteo Drew Barrymore Ehrinn Cummings
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