“The Clearing”

 

Brooklyn Film Festival’s 24th Edition: “The Clearing” Announces Award Winners Seiva Bruta [Under the Heavens] Wins the Grand Chameleon Award, Best Narrative Feature - Corral, Best Documentary Feature – Life & Life

Brooklyn Film Festival’s 24th edition: The Clearing, which was staged both in person at Windmill Studios and online, wrapped up Sunday, June 13th, and has announced the winners of the festival’s awards. Three groups determined the winners: 1) The external panel of judges, 2) The Festival Board of Directors, and 3) the Audience. Through the resources of industry-related sponsors, selected filmmakers are awarded more than $50,000 in cash, products, and services.  To learn more about the BFF selection process and check the full awards breakdown: visit winners and award prizes. SEIVA BRUTA [Under The Heavens] directed by Gustavo Milan picked up the coveted Grand Chameleon Award. CORRAL won Best Narrative Feature and LIFE & LIFE took home the award for Best Documentary Feature. “‘The Clearing’ was a wonderful journey with a group of people the festival trusts. It was a diverse and eccentric film program, created by a group of programmers who made the 2021 fest a truly remarkable venture. In the end, it was exactly what it was set up to be: an optimistic trajectory in the midst of one of the toughest human crises many of us have had to experience for the very first time in our lifetime,” said Marco Ursino, Brooklyn Film Festival Executive Director. “Thanks to indie filmmakers for helping us re-imagine a brand new world.” The prizes were sponsored by: Brooklyn Film Society, Sobre Vista Resort, Blue Table Post, Xeno Lights, AbelCine, Be Electric, Final Draft, MPE, Media Services, Papapietro Perry, Lentini Communications, Noble Jewelry The awards go to: Grand Chameleon Award SEIVA BRUTA (UNDER THE HEAVENS), by GUSTAVO MILAN Best Narrative Feature CORRAL, by MARCELO BRENNAND Best Documentary LIFE & LIFE, by NC HEIKIN Best Short Documentary MAKE HIM KNOWN, by RUDY VALDEZ Best Narrative Short SEIVA BRUTA (UNDER THE HEAVENS), by GUSTAVO MILAN Best Animation THE GREAT MALAISE, by CATHERINE LEPAGE Best Experimental OUR MINE, by SHAYNA STRYPE Best New Director GOSSAMER FOLDS, by LISA DONATO Best Brooklyn Project LITTLE PAKISTAN - FUTURE HISTORIES, by SANA AKRAM Spirit Awards Feature Narrative WALK WITH ME by ISABEL DEL ROSAL Feature Documentary AND SO I STAYED, by NATALIE PATTILLO and DANIEL A. NELSON Short Documentary THE MOUNTAIN & THE MAIDEN, by SHMUEL HOFFMAN and ANTON VON HEISELER Short Narrative THE TANK, by MOJTABA POURABDOLLAH Experimental PERFECT AS CATS, by KEVIN VU Animation THE BROKEN CANDLE, by FELIX KINER Audience Awards Feature Narrative KRINGLE TIME, by MATTHEW LUCAS Feature Documentary AND SO I STAYED, by NATALIE PATTILLO and DANIEL A. NELSON Short Documentary LITTLE BERLIN, by KATE MCMULLEN Short Narrative THE GOLDFISH, by ASHLEY PAIGE BRIM Experimental OUR MINE, by SHAYNA STRYPE Animation OPEN MIC, by JONATHAN ROSEN Certificates of Outstanding Achievement Producer NATHAN FOLBRECHT, for QUEENS OF PAIN Screenplay JOE BOLOGNA, JOS LANIADO, CLAUDIO LANIADO, for TANGO SHALOM Cinematography SURESH DESHMANE, for KALOKHACHYA PARAMBYA [PROP SHOOTS OF DARKNESS] Editing ROBERT CARTER, for INTO THE LIGHT Style MATTHEW LUCAS, for KRINGLE TIME Original Score GRACE MCLEAN, for OUR MINE Actor Female BRIDGET BARKAN, for WALK WITH ME Actor Male BENNY ELLEDGE for KRINGLE TIME About Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF): The organizers of the Brooklyn Film Festival have been staging International, competitive film events since 1998. BFF's mission is to provide a public forum in Brooklyn in order to advance public interest in films and the independent production of films, to draw worldwide attention to Brooklyn as a center for cinema, to encourage the rights of all Brooklyn residents to access and experience the power of independent filmmaking, and to promote artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure. BFF, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. For more info about the festival and the 2021 winners, click here.