«Elsinore» and «La Bola Negra» Keep Winning Awards at Hamptons International Film Festival

Exclusive: Elsinore and La Bola Negra were standouts, earning awards at the 34th Hamptons International Film Festival, which recently concluded. Audiences who attended 205 screenings of 140 features and shorts from October 2 to 11 selected La Bola Negra as the best narrative feature. The film, directed by […]

Exclusive: Elsinore and La Bola Negra were the two standout films that won awards at the just concluded 34th Hamptons International Film Festival.

Audiences who attended 205 screenings of the festival's 140 films and shorts from October 2-11 voted La Bola Negra as the best narrative film. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrosi, the film is Spain's official nominee for Best International Feature Film at the upcoming Academy Awards. The film came out of the Toronto Film Festival with a bang after winning the Audience Award, often an Academy Award. Related News 'La Bola Negra' directors dig into generational trauma: 'Something touched deep inside' - London Film Festival contenders News London returns home with rave 'Elsinore'

Another Hamptons hopeful is Elsinore, who made her East Coast debut at the event. Directed by Simon Stone and starring Andrew Scott, the film won the International People's Choice Award in Toronto and awards at other festivals in recent weeks. Watch on Deadline

Naza, who has garnered much acclaim and acclaim for her documentary portrayal of Israeli military attacks on Palestinian communities, also received an award. Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Zor, the film won the Victor Rabinowitz and Joan Grant Award for Social Justice. This film recognizes a film that exemplifies its values of reconciliation, equality, global justice and civil liberties.

Burgundy, directed by Michael Duke and Gregory Kershaw, won the HIFF Documentary Audience Award.

La Bola Negra in a statement by Cara Cusumano, Jeremy O. Harris and David Rooney, members of the HIFF Narrative Competition jury, described it as a triad of strange desire, strange memory and strange resistance that weaves together an epic tale using revisionist history to an emotional climax that cuts to the core.

Narrative Jury also gave special mention to Mehman directed by Madz Mangal.

The award for the best documentary film was awarded to "If Pigeons Turned to Gold". Carlos A. Gutierrez, Mark Obenhus and Sky Sitney, members of the documentary competition jury, called it “a bold and deeply personal story of the filmmaker's own family's struggle with addiction. This story is told with provocative rawness and creativity."

Other HIFF honors include the Jury Prize, from a panel of East Hampton High School, given to Mosh. The Rising Artemis Foundation raises the vibration award for social impact, to Medicine in Our Pockets and A Song for the Snow Lion. Peter McGregor-Scott Memorial Award, to Laser Gatto; Sharazm Award for Films Addressing LGBT+ Issues and Concerns What Will I Become? And welcome to Paris. Brizolara Family Foundation Award for conflict and resolution films; A subsequent grant of exposure of the county of Suffolk to Barbizon; and the Zelda Pen Award for "Giving Voice to the Voiceless," to Wild Inside.

Ben'Imana and The Drug in Our Pocket won the New York Women in Film and Television Excellence Awards in the Documentary and Narrative categories, respectively.

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