Gabriela Pichler's Eat Sleep Die won the Gand Jury Award, at AFI Fest Thursday afternoon, while A Royal Affair by Nikolaj Arcel won the Audience Award in the World Cinema section. Danish filmmaker Tobias Lindholm won the Audience Award among the fest's list of New Auteurs and Only the Young by Jason Tippet received the audience prize among its "Young Americans." David Tosh Gitonga took the Audience nod for "Breakthrough" for Nairobi Half Life.
"It has been an incredible year in film and we?re grateful for having had the opportunity to showcase so many wonderful films," said Jacqueline Lyanga, Director of AFI Fest in a statement. "Our desire is to have these films reach an even wider audience after these eight festival days, and that our jury and audience awards contribute to building an audience for these films."
AFI Fest closes out Thursday night with the World Premiere of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.
AFI Fest 2012 Winners
Jury Awards, New Auteurs (with descriptions provided by AFI Fest):
Grand Jury Award: Eat Sleep Die by Gabriela Pichler
Description: A Montenegrin-born young woman living in rural Sweden, Ra?a is laid off from her job at a food-packing plant. Her ensuing job search pulls us through the maze of limited prospects and frustrating bureaucracy facing the country's working immigrant population. Affable, resilient, street smart and soft-hearted, Ra?a's natural magnetism draws us in completely. We feel every ounce of her disappointment, fear and elation as she soldiers on, looking for work. An Audience Award winner at the Venice Film Festival, Eat Sleep Die's assured naturalism and political conviction single out Pichler as a bold, exciting new cinematic voice.
Special Mention for Performance: Simon Killer's (DIR Antonio Campos) Mati Diop for ?her contribution to Simon Killer as both an actress and…
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