The narrative feature "Gandu" and the documentary "Hot Coffee" won the top jury prizes at the Seattle International Film Festival, which celebrated the winning films on Sunday at the Golden Space Needle awards ceremony and brunch at Seattle's Space Needle.
Audience awards went to the narrative feature "Paper Birds," from Spain, and the documentary "To Be Heard."
The Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision, which was presented by Women in Film/Seattle to the film that received the largest number of awards in public voting, went to "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey."
The prizes came at the end of the 25-day festival, which showed more than 450 films at 600 different screenings and grossed in excess of $1 million.
More than 80,000 votes were cast by festivalgoers.
Grand Jury Prizes:
New Directors Competition: "Gandu"
Grand Jury Prize: "Hot Coffee"
Special Jury Prizes: "To Be Heard," "Sushi: The Global Catch"
Short Film Competition: "The Eagleman Stag," "Time Freak"
FIPRESCI Prize: "On the Ice"
Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision: "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey"
Golden Space Needle Audience Awards:
Best Film: "Paper Birds"
First runner-up: ""Tilt"
Second runner-up: "Simple Simon"
Third runner-up: "The Whistleblower"
Fourth runner-up: "King of Devil's Island"
Best Documentary: "To Be Heard"
First runner-up: "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey"
Second runner-up: "Buck"
Third runner-up: "How to Die in Oregon"
Fourth runner-up: "Hot Coffee"
Best Director: Larysa Kondracki, "The Whistleblower"
First runner-up: Emilio Aragon, "Paper Birds"
Second runner-up: Mohammad Rasoulof, "The White Meadows"
Third runner-up: Yasemin Samderelli, "Almanya"
Fourth runner-up: Maryam Keshavarz, "Circumstance"
Best Actor: Bill Skarsgard, "Simple Simon"
First runner-up: Matt Smith, "Womb"
Second runner-up: Imanol Arias, "Paper Birds"
Third runner-up: Matt O'Leary, "Natural Selection"
Fourth runner-up: Ron Eldard, "Roadie"
Best Actress: Natasha Petrovic, "As If I Am Not There"
First runner-up: Bodil Jorgensen, "Nothing's All Bad"
Second runner-up: Rachel Weisz, "The Whistleblower"
Third runner-up: Rachael Harris, "Natural Selection"
Fourth runner-up: Magaly Solier, "Amador"
Best Short Film: "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore"
First runner-up: "North Atlantic"
Second runner-up: "Interview"
Third runner-up: "Amazonia"
Fourth runner-up: "Cataplexy"
Youth Jury Award for Best FutureWave Feature: "Detention"
Youth Jury Award for Best Films4Families Feature: "Circus Dreams"
WaveMaker Award for Excellence in Youth Filmmaking: "The Million Dollar Watch"
WaveMaker Special Jury Prize: "Deaf Perspective"
FutureWave Shorts Audience Award: "Deaf Perspective"
Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short: "Time Freak"
Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short: "Library of Dust"
Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short: "The Eagleman Stag"
Special Jury Prizes, Narrative: "Howard from Ohio," "Our Ship"
Special Jury Prize, Animation: "New Digs"
