La Bola Negra Wins Denver as I Play Rocky Takes the Audience Prize
Summary
Whispers in May won the Maysles Brothers documentary prize, adding to its CPH:DOX top award.
"La Bola Negra, from directors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, won the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Best Feature Film at the 49th Denver Film Festival, IndieWire reported. The Spanish-French film has already won audience awards at Toronto and the BFI London Film Festival after taking Best Director at Cannes, and it continues to build an awards-season profile. Gold Derby also published the full list of winners.
Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky won the narrative audience award, following a similar prize at the Virginia Film Festival. The Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary went to Whispers in May, an international co-production that won the top prize at CPH:DOX and, IndieWire noted, is still seeking distribution. Mara Tasker's The River took the True Grit Award for a local film.
In shorts, the grand jury award went to Altay Ulan Yang's Hyena, and Pranav Bhasin's We Were Here from India won the short-film audience award. The festival ran October 22 to November 1 and screened about 130 films."
