Netflix's 'The Half of It' wins Tribeca Film Festival honor
Alice Wu's 'The Half of It', a teenage spin on Cyrano de Bergerac, has won the top award from the Tribeca Film Festival. Organizers announced winners Wednesday for the festival, which have been set to occur from April 15 through April 26 in NEW YORK.
The coronavirus pandemic forced the festival to reschedule, but jury members could actually view the films electronically and vote on winners.
"We are fortunate that technology allowed for our jury to get together this season honoring our filmmakers," said Jane Rosenthal, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder and CEO, in a statement. "Despite not having the ability to be together physically, we were still in a position to support our artists."
Festival director Cara Cusumano added that, "The jury chose to recognize a daring, innovative, entertaining, diverse group of films and filmmakers, and the festival is very happy to honor all of them with our first ever virtual awards ceremony."
Lucas Hedges, Terry Kinney and CherienDabis made up the jury for the united states narrative categories, and selected AssolAbdullina ("Materna") as best actress and Steve Zahn ("Cowboys") as best actor.
Best documentary feature visited Bo McGuire's Socks burning, which McGuire describes as a "trans generational docudrama couched in the battle royal for my Nanny's throne."
In the international competition, the Polish film The Hater, from director Jan Komasa, was selected as the very best narrative feature. Jury members included Danny Boyle, William Hurt, and DemiánBichir.
Shira Haas, of the series Unorthodox, picked up best actress for the Israeli mother-daughter drama Asia.
Asia, from director RuthyPribar, also won the Nora Ephron Award, from a jury that included Gina Rodriguez, Regina Hall and LizzyCaplan.
