SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Sept. 26 (BUS): Actresses and filmmakers won top prizes at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Saturday, with the Golden Shell Award for Best Film going to directors’ Blue Moon (Crai Nou). Romanian director Alina Gregor.
American actress and producer Jessica Chastain has been honored for her portrayal of Christian TV pianist Tami Faye Messner in “Tami Fay’s Eyes” at the 69th edition of Spain’s largest film festival, reports the Associated Press.
Chastain shared the award for Best Leading Performance with 16-year-old Flora Ophelia Hoffmann Lindahl, who starred in the Danish film “As in Heaven” (“Du som er i himlen”). Tea Lindeburg won Best Director for the same film.
This was the first time that the film festival awarded gender-neutral awards, without any separate categories for men and women.
Tatiana Howes’ “Prayers for the Loot” (“Noche de fuego”) won Best Latin American Film.
Other winners include Claire Mathon, who received the Cinematography Award for “Enquête sur un scandale d’état” and Lucille Hadzihalovic for whose film “Earwig” was awarded the Festival Special Award, an honor she also received in 2015.
RAE