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8 May 2006 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- [Ed's note: Over 3500 pics taken, over 30 capsule reviews and a couple of interviews on the slate – Pierre Alexandre delivered way beyond expectations.] It's already over! Well, it was about time. 13 days for a film festival is totally intense – in addition to the 3 weeks of press screenings prior to the beginning of the festival. So, I ended up seeing about 55 films, which is very little for this festival that had almost 200 features length films. Most of the films were good; unfortunately, as in every festival, there were some very crappy ones. It's hard to understand how in a festival that receives some 2,000 features submissions there still bad films are making their way in the selection. Even the publicist hired by one of the film to promote it said to someone it was a "very bad film" – he didn't say that to the journalists, of course! Despite those few dissappointments, Tribeca 2006 was totally worth it. In doing my top 10 of some festivals I sometimes have a hard time coming up with »

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- Here are the winners as announced by the festival. The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature â€. Blessed By Fire (Iluminados por el Fuego), Directed by Tristán Bauer, Argentina, Spain. Presented by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal with Dick Walsh. Winner receives $25,000. Art award "Twin City Theatre", created by Wim Wenders.  Jury compromised Ed Burns, Terry George, Josh Lucas, Kelly Lynch, Antonio Skármeta, Trudie Styler and Melvin Van Peebles. Best Documentary Feature â€. War Tapes, Directed by Deborah Scranton, USA. Presented by Ken Burns and Ira Yohalem.  Winner receives $15,000. Art award "Untitled", created by Alex Katz. Jury compromised Ken Burns, Robert Drew, Whoopi Goldberg, Oren Jacoby, Rory Kennedy and Marc Levin.  Special Documentary Jury Prize - Voices of Bam, Directed by Aliona van der Horst and Maasja Ooms, Netherlands. Presented by Ken Burns and Ira Yohalem.  Winner receives $10,000. Art award "Moroccoâ€., created by Clifford Ross. Jury compromised Ken Burns, »

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Argentine director Tristan Bauer's Iluminados por el Fuego (Blessed By Fire), won the top award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The film, about the lives of soldiers who fought in the Falklands War, won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature. Another war-themed film, Deborah Scranton's The War Tapes, with footage shot in Iraq by members of the New Hampshire National Guard, won the award for best documentary feature. »

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