Prague Independent Film Festival

History

Prague Independent Film Festival was held for the first time on 15–18 August 2016 in the cinemas Kino Evald, Kino Atlas and Kino Lucerna. The festival program consisted of 33 films. Opening film of the festival was Rocco has Your Name by Angelo Orlando. Angelo Orlando won the Best Screenplay award and the leading actor Michele Venitucci won the Best Actor award.

Grand Prix of the festival – The Golden Eagle – was awarded to the Bulgarian film Sinking of Sozopol by Kostadin Bonev. This philosophical film depicts a middle aged man caught in between past and future, lost in his memories and feelings of guilt.

Shamim Sarif received the Best Feature Film award for her film Despite the Falling Snow. Rebecca Ferguson was awarded Best Actress and Anthony Head received the Best Supporting Actor award. The film is an espionage story about love and betrayal set against the Cold War based on the best selling novel by Shamim Sarif.

Best Animated Film was awarded to The Snow Queen 2 from the Russian animation company Wizart Animation. The film was written and directed by Aleksey Tsitsilin and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.

Best Short Film award was given to the short film Cora made by Kevin Maxwell, a student of Santa Monica College who was supervised by Salvador Carrasco.

The film festival closed with the short film Green Lake directed by Derek Frey who currently runs the Tim Burton Productions. The film received the Best Music Score award for the music by Matthew Reid.

2016

Grand Prix

Best Feature Film

Best Director

Best Screenplay

Best Cinematography

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Short Film

Best Experimental Film

Best Animated Film

Best Comedy Film

Best Horror Film

Best Art Direction

Best Special Effects

Best Music Score

Best Music Video