Ruth Perry-Bar's Asian premiere picked up three awards at the New York Tribeca Festival, conducted this year in online format • Haas: "It's Exciting and Insanely Happy"
From the movie "Asia"
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Danielle Novitz
"Asia," the screenplay for Israeli screenwriter-director Ruth Perry-Barr, has won three awards at the New York Tribeca Festival, which took place this year in a limited online format due to the situation.
Pri-Bar's film received the Best Actress Award in an international feature film, which was presented to Haas Poetry, an International Film Award awarded to Danielle Nowitz, and the Nora Efron Award for Unique Voice Director - Awarded by Talia Lavie, for the feature film Hers, "Zero in Human Relations."
"This morning I got up to very happy news," Haas said in a video response to the photo she won at her home. "It is a great and exciting honor. We were supposed to be in Tribeca on the red carpet now ... but it is really exciting and insanely happy."
"Asia" focuses on the relationship that develops between a single mother named Asia (Alona) and her 17-year-old daughter, Vika (Shira Haas), against the background of her daughter's deteriorating condition. The panel of judges, which included director Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting"), editor Sabine Hoffman and actors William Hurt, Damian Bishir and Judith Goodrash, noted his impression of the sensitive, accurate and powerful directing work that does not allow the viewer to remain indifferent to what is happening on screen. for a moment. On the acting work of Shira Haas, the judges wrote: "Her face is an endless landscape where even the smallest expression can break my heart."
"This is a movie that talks about motherhood, love and compassion," Perry-Bar said in a media release after the awards ceremony (held on Instagram, due to the situation). "At this time, when we're all so longing for human closeness, the film has managed to touch the hearts of viewers around the world and for me it's a huge achievement. The Nora Efron Award is for groundbreaking directors. Unfortunately, almost everyone who comes to the directing position is now a breakthrough. One woman is nominated in the Ophir Awards category. The success of 'Asia' will, I hope, allow more directors to continue to break through. " Perry-Bar is an outstanding graduate of the Sam Spiegel School of Cinema, and the Asia script was developed as part of the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious residency program.
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The best feature film award at this year's Tribeca Festival won the dramatic comedy "The Half of It," by director Alice W. The movie, produced by Netflix and already available to watch on the streaming service (under the name "allowed to love"), draws quite a bit of inspiration from the classic story of "Sirano Bergerac" to tell a story about a queer love triangle in high school.