Tribeca WInners

The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival announced juried award winners Thursday and audience award winners Saturday. Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd also hosted a panel devoted to Time’s Up.

THE WINNERS

• On Thursday, top honors went to Kent Jones‘ Diane (Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature), Marios Piperides‘ Smuggling Hendrix (Best International Narrative Feature) and Gabrielle Brady‘s Island of the Hungry Ghosts (Best Documentary Feature). The Festival awarded $145,000 in cash prizes.
• Awards were given in the following feature film competition categories: Founders Award for Best Narrative, International Narrative, Documentary, New Narrative Director, The Albert Maysles New Documentary Director, and the Nora Ephron Award, honoring a woman writer and/or director. Short films were honored in the Narrative, Documentary, Student Visionary and Animation categories.
• The Festival handed out audience awards for narrative and documentary films Saturday night. Shawn Snyder‘s To Dust took home the narrative award, while United Skates, directed and produced by Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown, won for documentary.

TIME’S UP

• In response to the growing movement, the Tribeca Film Festival partnered with Time’s Up to host a day of conversations. Proceeds from the day went to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.
• Judd, who was one of the first stars to go public accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault in the groundbreaking New York Times story in October of 2017, spoke at the panel Saturday, along with Sorvino, who shared her story in Dylan Farrow‘s piece on Weinstein for the New Yorker.
• Before the event, which was moderated by Tarana Burke, Judd tweeted, “On my way to share my national letter to survivors of sexual assault @TIMESUPNOW event at #tribecafilmfestival with a dialogue after reading it with the great and dear @TaranaBurke #wecanheal.”
• At the panel, Judd read a letter to survivors of assault.
• Judd began the letter: “We can heal. That has been my experience. We may not, admittedly, know how to, or even from what we need to heal. It may be the event itself, or vivid or dull memories of it, and it is entirely plausible that we don’t even remember the event. There is a police record of a time I was sexually assaulted in high school. I was wearing a green and gold cheerleader uniform, my mother tells me. It was in a local store, and I have no memory of that crime. We may not even think we need to heal, that maybe we’ve just had some crappy relationships. Whatever trauma looks like in our lives, feelings can be healed.”
• She continued, “Healing is our birthright. It was not our birthright to be sexually harassed or assaulted or raped based on social constructs of gender, biology, sex, identity, orientation, ethnicity, race, ability, or any intersection thereof. It is our birthright to know in our bones that it wasn’t our fault. We humans hurt each other, and sometimes we hurt ourselves, but we can make decisions and take actions that free us.”
• Sorvino tweeted during the panel, posting a shot of Judd and Burke with the message: “The #powerofempathy” front & center of @TaranaBurke #healing journey and @MeTooMVMT she remembers that each #MeToo (millions) is an individual & stresses importance of sharing healing stories-share & swap coping mechanisms @TaranaBurke & @AshleyJudd @TIMESUPNOW @tribecafilmfest.”

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