Coming of age drama Good girl Jane, written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz, won the Tribeca Festival Founders Award for Best American Narrative Feature on Thursday while its star Rain Spencer won Best Performance at the festival, which announced its winners before the end. of this weekend.

The film follows lonely teenager Jane, bullied at private school and at odds with her divorced parents, who spins out of control after running into a party crowd and falling in love with a dangerously charismatic bad boy, played by Patrick Gibson. Andie MacDowell is Jane’s beleaguered mother. It is produced by Fred Bernstein, Dominique Telson, Lauren Pratt, Mintz and Simone Williams.

January (Janvaris) by Viesturs Kairiss, hailing from Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, about an aspiring filmmaker in search of identity in the context of Latvian independence, was named Best International Narrative Feature.

The prizes for best documentary feature and best editing went to Laura Checkoway Adullam Cave. The Laurence Fishburne-produced documentary follows martial arts sensei Jason Wilson tenderly guiding his often troubled young Detroit students with a beautifully effective blend of compassion and tough love. See Deadline’s interview with Fishburne and Wilson here.

Also in the Narrative Feature category, Everything is fine by Ben Snyder, about three Nuyorican sisters navigating life’s challenges, won Best Screenplay. Best Cinematography went to Next exit by Mali Elfman. Liz Carbel won a Special Jury Mention for Best Performance for Daniel Antebi Sierra in God’s time.

Katrina Babies received the Human/Nature award, a new award this year for environmentally conscious films.

Michelle Garza Cervera won the 10th Annual Nora Ephron Award for Huesera from Mexico. She also won Best New Narrative Director.

Awards were given to Tribeca Thalassa Restaurant for Short Film, Audio Storytelling, Immersion, Games, Man/Nature and Tribeca X (Branded Storytelling). The ceremony awarded $165,000 in cash prizes. The festival, which hosts more than 600 events in New York, ends on Sunday. A special series of screenings of the virtual winners will be available to US audiences this weekend through Tribeca At Home.

“Today’s winners are a testament to the vitality of cinematic storytelling, representing the most exciting achievements across countries, genres and platforms,” ​​said Cara Cusumano, Festival Director and Vice President of Programming. . “We are proud to recognize such a diverse and innovative group of works and creators with today’s well-deserved honorees.”

Earlier in the week, Tribeca and sponsor AT&T announced smoking tigers as the winner of the annual pitch competition AT&T Present : Unspeakable stories. Writer-director So Young Shelly Yo and producer Guo Guo will receive $1 million to produce their feature film, which will premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and have a first opportunity with HBO Max.

Here is the full list of Tribeca winners:

AMERICAN NARRATIVE CONTEST

The Founders Award for Best American Narrative Feature

Good girl Jane
Directed and written by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz

Best Screenplay

Everything is fine
Directed and written by Ben Snyder; written by Elizabeth Rodriguez

Best Cinematography

Next exit
Directed and written by Mali Elfman

Better performance

Rain Spencer in Good Girl Jane

Special Jury Mention for Best Performance

Liz Carbel Sierra in God’s time

INTERNATIONAL STORY COMPETITION

Best International Narrative Feature

January (Janvaris) (Latvia, Lithuania, Poland)
Directed by Viesturs Kairiss; written by Viesturs Kairiss, Andris Feldmanis, Livia Ulman

Best Screenplay

The visitor (Bolivia, Uruguay)
Directed by Martin Boulocq. Written by Martín Boulocq, Rodrigo Hasbún

Best Cinematography

We might as well be dead (Wir könnten genauso gut tot sein) (Germany, Romania)
Directed by Natalia Sinelnikova; written by Natalia Sinelnikova, Viktor Gallandi

Better performance

Dorota Pomykala for woman on a roof (Poland, France, Sweden)

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Best Documentary Feature

Adullam Cave(WE)
Directed by Laura Checkoway

Best Cinematography

The wild (France)
Directed, written and produced by Tessa Louise-Salomé

Best Editing

Adullam Cave (WE)
Directed by Laura Checkoway

The Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director

Edward Buckles Jr for Katrina Babies (WE)
Directed by Edward Buckles Jr.; written by Edward Buckles Jr., Luther Clement Lam, Audrey Rosenberg

Best New Narrative Director

Michelle Garza Cervera for Huesera (Mexico)

Special Jury Mention for Best New Narrative Director

pink moon(Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia)
Directed by Floor van der Meulen; written by Bastiaan Kroeger

Nora Ephron Award: Michelle Garza Cervera for Huesera (Mexico)
Directed by Michelle Garza Cervera; written by Michelle Garza Cervera, Abia Castillo

SHORT FILM

Best Narrative Short

Night walk (Nattrikken) (Norway)
Directed and written by Eirik Tveiten

Best Documentary Short

Heart Valley (UK, Wales)
Directed by Christian Cargill; written by Kiran Sidhu

Special Jury Mention for Best Documentary Short Film

stranger at the door (WE)
Directed by Joshua Seftel

Best Animated Short

More than I remember (WE)
Directed by Amy Banc; written by Mugeni Ornella, Amy Bench, Carolyn Merriman

visionary student

dreamers (Belgium)
Directed by Ante Pask; written by Ante Pask, Emiel van Wouwe

AUDIO NARRATIVE

Best Audio Narrative in Non-Fiction

Motherland Radicals

Special Jury Mention Best Audio Narrative in Non-Fiction

I was never there

Best Audio Narrative in Fiction

The hollowed out

IMMERSIVE

Storyscapes Awards

Kubo roams the city (France, South Korea)

Special Mention of the Jury for the Storyscapes Prize

EVOLUTION (UK, France, USA)

New Voice Awards

LGBTQ+ VR Museum (UK, Denmark)

GAMES

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Thirsty suitors (WE)

Special Jury Mention for the Tribeca Games Award

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals (WE)

HUMAN/NATURE AWARD

Katrina Babies (WE)

TRIBECA X

Best Feature

The beauty of darkness
Brand: Sephora. Agency: Epic Digital, VOX Creative, Digitas, Ventureland

Best Short Film

The return
Brand: Apple. Agency: TBWAMedia Arts Lab Shanghai

best episode

Stories of helpful people
Brand: Zendesk. Creative studio: even/odd

Best immersive

Emerging Radiance: A Tribute to the Nikkei Farmers of Bellevue
Brand: Meta