04-07-2018

FESTIVALS: Veronique Meriadec's A Thousand Pieces Wins 13th Cyprus IFF

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    PAPHOS: The 13th Cyprus International Film Festival Golden Aphrodite concluded in Paphos on Sunday, 1 July, with an award ceremony presented by the festival’s founder Petra Terzi and Stefanos Theofylaktou. The night also included a live musical performance.

    The international jury gave the following awards:

    Feature Films Category – Golden Aphrodite Awards

    Best Feature Film of First Shown Filmmaker
    A Thousand Pieces (France)
    Directed by Veronique Meriadec

    Best Script in a First Feature Film:
    A Thousand Pieces (France)
    Directed by Veronique Meriadec

    CYIFF 2018 awards2Best Music Score in a First Feature Film
    Tree and a Half (India)
    Directed by Vivienne Mort

    Best Leading Actor in a Feature Film (shared)

    Serge Riaboukine for A Thousand Pieces (France)
    Directed by Veronique Meriadec

    Marcel Iures for Octav (Romania)
    Directed by Serge Ioan Celebidachi
    Produced by Celi Films and Oblique Media Film

    Best Leading Actress in a First Feature Film
    Mehraveh Sharifinia for Wander About Me (Iran)
    Directed by Ghazaleh Soltani

    Best Director in a First Feature Film (shared)

    A Thousand Pieces (France)
    Directed by Veronique Meriadec

    Feeling You (China)
    Directed by Yuez Zeng

    Best Sets / Costumes in a First Feature Film
    Brianna Quick for Cassidy Red (USA)
    Directed by Matt Knudsen

    Best Production Design in a First Feature Film
    Lauren Ivy for Cassidy Red (USA)
    Directed by Matt Knudsen

    Best Cinematography in a First Feature Film
    The Forest (Germany, Czech Republic)
    Directed by Viktora Gasic

    Best Editing in a First Feature Film
    Diane Logan and Roxane Foare for A Thousand Pieces (France)
    Directed by Veronique Meriadec

    Aphrodite Cinematic Award
    Take 18 (Lebanon)
    Directed by Marie-Louise Elia

    CYIFF 2018 Got Talent

    CYIFF 2018 Got Talent in Animated Award
    One Small Step (USA)
    Directed by Bobby Pontillas

    CYIFF 2018 Veteran’s Animation Award
    The Fallen Tree (Hungary)
    Directed by Drew Hodges

    CYIFF 2018 Best Arthouse Film
    Plicker (South Korea)
    Directed by Byungjun Kim

    CYIFF 2018 Nostimon Imar
    Eleftheromania (Canada)
    Directed by David Antoniuk

    CYIFF 2018 Best Dance Award in Short Film
    Giselle (USA)
    Directed by Severine Reisp

    CYIFF 2018 Aphrodite Cinematic Award
    Take 18 (Lebanon)
    Directed by Marie-Louise Elia

    CYIFF 50/50 (Films with equal amount of men and women)
    The Big Secret: A Survival Guide for the New Millennium (USA)
    Directed by Susan Downs and Alex Voss

    CYIFF 2018 Got Talent in Direction
    Thursday (Russia)
    Directed by Suro Jr

    CYIFF 2018 Got Talent
    Dancing Girls (Turkey)
    Directed by Zeynep Koprlulu

    CYIFF 2018 Got Talent Honorary Mention
    Sheep Dotting Hillsides (China)
    Directed by Huaqing Jin

    CYIFF 2018 Best Short Veteran’s Direction
    The Academy (UK)
    Directed by Nick Blair

    CYIFF 2018 Best Veteran’s Short Film
    Daedalus (Canada)
    Directed by William B. Davis

    CYIFF 2018 Best Greek Short Film
    Heimlick (Greece)
    Directed by Kostas Bakouris

    CYIFF 2018 Best Cinematography in a Short Documentary
    In Search of Indigo (India)
    Directed by Shaktiraj Singh Jadeja

    CYIFF 2018 Best Direction in a Short Documentary
    Have no Fear (USA)
    Directed by Beata Calinska and Sarah Jacobson

    CYIFF Best Short Documentary
    Marked (Serbia)
    Directed by Jovan Dopudj

    CYIFF 2018 Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature Film
    Life Begins at 90 (Cyprus)
    Directed by Bejay Browne
    Produced by In Focus Films

    CYIFF 2018 Best Direction in a Documentary Feature Film
    Apple and Volcano in Search of What Remains (Italy and Switzerland)
    Directed by Nathalie Oestreicher

    CYIFF 2018 Best Feature Documentary
    Kangaroo (Australia and China)
    Directed by Kate Mclntyre Clere and Michael Mclntyre

    Veteran’s Category

    CYIFF 2018 Best Cinematography in a Veteran’s Feature Film
    Hikari no tabi – Dream of ilumination (Japan)
    Directed by Thunder Sawada

    CYIFF 2018 Best Direction in a Veteran’s Feature Film
    Next to us (Russia)
    Directed by Protopriest Alexander Novopashin

    CYIFF 2018 Veteran’s in a Feature Film
    Chinatown: The Three Shelters (Cyprus)
    Directed by Aliki Danezi Knutsen
    Produced by Roads and Oranges Films