Award cerimony at Figueira Film Art 2015

“Cinzento e Negro”, by Luís Filipe Rocha, swept five awards at Figueira Film Art 2015. The success of the Film Festival was shown at the awards cerimony to the films up for awards that took place yesterday, at Casino Figueira, which counted with the presence of, among others, the state secretary Miguel Poiares Maduro.
In a night gifted with the music of the CAE Jazz Orchestra and the Coimbra Gospel Choir, hundreds of people watched the awarding of director Rui Goulart with the Figueira Film Art 2015 distinction, for his connection to Figueira da Foz, poured into his now vast body of work. Before announcing the winners, there was still time to remember and reinforce the homage to the director Manoel de Oliveira, distinguished this year with the Career Award, given in life and handed posthumously to his grandson, the actor Ricardo Trêpa.
The winners were…
The jury led by the professor of Cinema and Theatre Andrzej Kowalski, which also included Paulo Antunes (FORDOC); Pedro Pinto (CAE), and the brazilian director Sihan Feliz, decided on the following winners:

Best Feature Film: Cinzento e Negro, by Luís Filipe Rocha
Best Documentary Short Film: Trama, by Luísa Soares
Best Fiction Short Film: A Tua Plateia, by Óscar Faria (Honorable mention for Percepção delicada de um raio de luz, by Gustavo dos Santos)
Best Videoclip: Nerve – Subtítulo, by Chicolaev (Francisco Freitas)
(Honorable mention for Achievement, by José Castanheira)
Best Short Film – Schools: Nómada Existencial, de Nuno Pais
Best Director: Luís Filipe Rocha and Roly Santos (ex aequo)
Best Main Actor: Adriano Carvalho, for Doce Lar
Best Main Actress: Joana Bárcia, for Cinzento e Negro
Best Writing: Cinzento e Negro
Best Original Soundtrack: Rodrigo Raposo, in Trama
Best Photography: André Szankowski (Cinzento e Negro)
(Honorable mention for Pedro Sousa Raposo, for Trama)
Best Editing: Manos Unidas
(Honorable mention for A Campanha do Creoula, by André Valentim Almeida)