WINNERS OF THE 2019 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

"Burning Cane", the debut feature from writer/director, Phillip Youmans, won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Youmans became the youngest person to ever receive this prize at the age of nineteen and was only seventeen when he shot the feature. He also took the prize for Best Cinematography while Wendell Pierce received Best Actor for his work in the film. This drama tells the story, set in Southeastern Louisiana, of a preacher (Pierce) struggling with his wife’s recent death. Haley Bennett won Best Actress for the film, "Swallow" which she plays a pregnant woman who begins compulsively consuming dangerous objects. "House of Hummingbird", the South Korean film directed by Bora Kim, was awarded Best International Feature, Best Actress for Ji-hu Park and Best Cinematography. And "Scheme Birds" the debut feature from the team of Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin, was named Best Documentary. The film follows a teenager trying to make her way through her declining steel town called Motherwell, located southeast of Glasgow, where she faces few options for her future.

Here is the list of winners from the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival:

Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature: "Burning Cane"
Best Screenplay: Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy, "Blow the Man Down"
Best Actress: Haley Bennett, "Swallow"
Best Actor: Wendell Pierce, "Burning Cane"
Best Cinematography: Phillip Youmans, "Burning Cane"
Best International Feature: "House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae)" (South Korea, USA)



Best International Screenplay: Cenk Ertürk, "Noah Land (Nuh Tepesi)" (Germany, Turkey, USA)
Best International Actress: Ji-hu Park, "House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae)"
Best International Actor: Ali Atay, "Noah Land (Nuh Tepesi)"
Best International Cinematography: Kang Gook-hyun, "House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae)"
Best Documentary Feature: "Scheme Birds" (Scotland, Sweden)
Best Documentary Cinematography: Yang Sun and Shuang Liang, "Our Time Machine" (China)
Best Documentary Editing: Jennifer Tiexiera, "17 Blocks" (USA)
Best Narrative Short: "Maja" (Denmark)
Best New Narrative Director Award: Edgar Nito, "The Gasoline Thieves (Huachicolero)" (Mexico, Spain, UK, USA)
Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award: Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin, "Scheme Birds" (Scotland, Sweden)
Narrative Audience Award: "Plus One"
Documentary Audience Award: "Gay Chorus Deep South"
Nora Ephron Award: Rania Attieh. "Initials S.G. (Iniciales S.G.)" (Argentina, Lebanon, USA)