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Saturday 12 June; award winners of the 28th edition of the Sheffield DocFest were announced at the closing night of the festival this evening, ahead of the world premiere of Mark Cousins' The Story of Looking.
Nine awards were announced for 2021 including The International Competition (Best Film and Special Jury Award), The UK Competition (Best Film and Special Jury Award), The Tim Hetherington Award, The Youth Jury Award, First Feature, Short Film Award and the Audience Award.
The International Competition includes 11 features in total, produced in 14 countries all over the globe. The Best Film was selected as Nuhu Yãg Mu Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land! (Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero, Brazil), the Special Jury Award went to Equatorial Constellations (Silas Tiny, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe) and Special Mentions to Summer (Vadim Kostrov, Russia) and Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions (Komori Haruka & Seo Natsumi, Japan).
The International Competition Jury is made up of Karen Alexander, an independent film and moving image curator and researcher, Peruvian cinematographer and producer, Inti Briones, Sergio Fant the German-based Italian film programmer, Colombian-Brazilian filmmaker Paula Gaitan and finally Hiroko Tasaka who is the curator of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Artistic Director of the Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2022.
The UK Competition is a selection of 14 independent films that bring unique perspectives. Ali and His Miracle Sheep (Maythem Ridha, Iraq, UK) won Best Film, Portrait of Kaye (Ben Reed, UK) the Special Jury Award and a Special Mention given to The Battle of Denham Ford (Bradley & Bradley, UK). |
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