By Elizabeth Ladzinski
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
TRIBECA — After nine days of movie premieres, the 10th Annual Tribeca Film Festival awarded the winners of its competition categories Thursday night at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square.
Two female directors took home the top prizes, with She Monkeys (Apflickorna), directed by Lisa Aschan, receiving the Founders Award for best narrative feature and Bombay Beach directed by Alma Har’el receiving the award for best documentary.
"We’ve been fortunate that as we have grown we have remained a place that welcomes a diverse range of stories told by compelling and exciting filmmakers," Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of the festival, said in a statement. "We are truly honored that the community has supported the Festival all these years — the community of New York and the international film community."
"We are truly pleased to have had such a great group of filmmakers at Tribeca," said Nancy Schafer, Executive Director of the Festival.
This year, 93 features and 60 short films were shown, with winners chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features.
In the narrative feature competition, Park Jungbum, writer and director of Journals of Musan (Musan Il-gi) won the award for best new director; Ramadhan "Shami" Bizimana as Yvan in Grey Matter (Matière Grise) won the award for best actor, and Carice van Houten as Ingrid Jonker in Black Butterflies won the award for best actress.
In the documentary feature competition, Pablo Croce for Like Water won the award for best new director.
Man and Boy directed by David Leon and Marcus McSweeney and written by David Leon and Rashid Rasaq won best narrative short, while Incident in New Baghdad, written and directed by James Spione won best documentary short.
A full list of the winners can be viewed here.
The festival was co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center.
The winning films will be shown through May 1st, with tickets for evening and weekend screenings priced at $16, and daytime weekday and late night screenings, $8.
