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Host nation Australia shared in the glory of the Grand Jury Prize at the
inaugural Noosa Film Festival when the Australia/Bhutan co-production The
Cup was named Best Film of the dozen competition entries.
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The Cup, directed by Khyentse Norbu, received the first Golden
Boomerang Trophy to be awarded by Australia's first
internationally-competitive film festival. Producers Malcolm Watson and
Raymond Steiner accepted the trophy and a $50,000 cash prize. In his
acceptance speech, Watson predicted that the Noosa Festival would become
"the Cannes of the Southern Hemisphere".
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The Cup takes its story from the tradition of Tibetan families
smuggling their children into other countries with the aim of ensuring a
Buddhist education, following the destruction of Tibetan monasteries in the
wake of the Chinese Red Army invasion. Two young escapees find sanctuary at
a monastery-in-exile in the Himalayas, becoming novices just as the annual
Soccer World Cup Final looms, and excitement spreads among the cloistered
football fans.
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Writer and director Khyentse Norbu was himself educated as a Buddhist monk,
and received his first film training from Bernardo Bertolucci when he worked
with the director on the production of Little Buddha.
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Spanish production The Lovers of the Arctic Circle won two awards,
Best Director for writer-director Julio Medem, and Best Cinematography for
Kalo F. Berridi. The U.S.A. production Judy Berlin won the Best
Scriptwriting award for Eric Mendelsohn, who also directed and edited the
picture.
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The festival competition's Best Actor award went to Aidan Quinn, star of
This Is My Father, a Canada/Ireland co-production written and
directed by the actor's brother Paul Quinn in his feature film debut.
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The styling of the acting awards as "Best Actor, Male" and "Best Actor,
Female" received a rap from film critic and juror Peter Thompson, on behalf
of the festival judges, when he announced the female winners.
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"One thing the jury was unanimous about is that we would prefer the word
'actress'," he said. "Let's put an end to this ridiculous euphemism of male
and female actor."
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The jury decided to make a joint award to both female leads in the German
production Aimée and Jaguar. Winners Maria Schrader and Juliane
Köhler starred in the first theatrical release for director and co-scenarist
Max Färberböck, which opened the 1999 Berlin Film Festival.
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Announcing the festival's World Cinema Award, jury member Rachel Ward said
the winner of this category needed to be "a film that makes the greatest
contribution to propagating human dignity and understanding." The winner
was the Korean production The Birdcage Inn, written and directed by
Kim Ki-Duk.
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Two-time Academy Award winner (Best Sound for Jurassic Park and
Saving Private Ryan) Ron Judkins praised the festival spirit and
"true love of film" when he announced the Best Documentary award, won by Wim
Wenders's The Buena Vista Social Club.
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Best Film in the Noosa Festival's National Short Film Competition was
Edithvale, directed by Clare Madsen. Best Director Award in this
competition was shared by Lyn-Maree Danzey for Fetch and Kriv
Stenders for Two/Out, with a special mention to Rachel Griffiths
for Tulip. Sunday Hungry won the Best Script award, with
Currency singled out for special mention. Best Cinematography in a
short film went to Lost, with a special mention to Rise.
Darwin's Evolutionary Stakes won the Best Sound award, with the
judges' special mention going to Local Dive.
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Details
Noosa Film Festival, Noosa.
2-8 September 1999.
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Citation reference for this article
MLA style:
Shane Lewis. "International Winners in First Noosa Film Festival (NFF #5)." M/C Reviews 16 Sep. 1999.
[your date of access] <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/reviews/screen/winners.html>.
Chicago style:
Shane Lewis, "International Winners in First Noosa Film Festival (NFF #5)," M/C Reviews 16 Sep. 1999,
<http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/reviews/screen/winners.html> ([your date of access]).
APA style:
Shane Lewis. (1999) International winners in first Noosa Film Festival (NFF #5). M/C Reviews 16 Sep. 1999.
<http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/reviews/screen/winners.html> ([your date of access]).
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