‘Sansón And Me’ Wins Sheffield Doc/Fest; Pedro Almodóvar Teases Short Western; ‘Celebrity Juice’ To End; Edinburgh Restructures Program — Global Briefs
deadline.comMexican Immigrant Tale ‘Sansón And Me’ Wins Best Film At Sheffield Doc/FestU.S.-based Mexican director Rodrigo Reyes’s Sansón And Me has won Best Film at the UK’s Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 23-28).
Set between Mexico and the United States, it explores the journey of a Mexican man who was orphaned as a child and ends up serving two life sentences for first-degree murder in California’s Bay State Prison.
Special mentions went to Ukrainian director Volodymyr Tykhyy’s One Day in Ukraine and Lebanese filmmaker Nadim Mishlawi’s After the End of the World.
In other awards, Dutch filmmaker Rosa Ruth Boesten’s won Best First Feature for Master of Light, a biopic about classical painter George Anthony Morton, who spent a decade in federal prison in the U.S.
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