2016 Brooklyn Film Festival Award Winners Announced

The 2016 Brooklyn film festival has wrapped in New York City and the award winners from this year’s fest have been announced. Kieran Valla‘s Delinquent picked up the Grand Chameleon Award along with Best Narrative Feature, and the film’s lead, Alex Shaffer won for Best Actor.

Take a look below at the full list of winners and fore more information about each movie, check out the BFF web site here.

Complete list of Winners:

GRAND CHAMELEON AWARD
DELINQUENT by Kieran Valla

Best Narrative Feature
DELINQUENT by Kieran Valla

Best Documentary
FARMER/VETERAN by Alix Blair & Jeremy Lange

Best Short Documentary 
MORIOM by Mark Olexa & Francesca Scalisi

Best Narrative Short
DREAMLANDS by Sara Dunlop

Best Animation
AMÉLIA & DUARTE by Alice Guimarães & Mónica Santos

Best Experimental
TOMORROW AFTER YESTERDAY by Behzad Moloud

Best New Director
EMBERS by Claire Carre

Brooklyn Pride Award
LIFE OF SIGNIFICANT SOIL by Michael Irish 

Spirit Awards

Feature Narrative – LAPACHHAPI by Vishal Furia
FeatureDocumentary – DEPROGRAMMED by Mia Donovan
ShortDocumentary – OUSTAZ by Bentley Brown
Short Narrative – FATA MORGANA by Amelie Wen
Experimental – THE PUDDLE by Serdar Yilmaz
Animation – IN DEEP WATERSby Sarah Van Den Boom

Audience Awards

Feature Narrative – CREEDMORIA by Alicia Slimmer
FeatureDocumentary – THE REBOUND by Shaina Allen
ShortDocumentary – LAST SHIP by Daniele Ragusa
Short Narrative – OFF TRACK BETTY by Clayton Dean Smith
Experimental – FREEDOM-TO GO! by Ingrid Nachstern
Animation – BORROWED TIME by Lou Hamou-Lhadj & Andrew Coats

Certificates of Outstanding Achievement

Producer – Art Jones, Raphael Duvernay, Corentin Vinçon, Joe Foley for FORBIDDEN CUBA
Screenplay – Patrick Daly & Joel Fendelman for REMITTANCE
Cinematography – Mohammad Fakouri for HELMSMAN
Editing – Aaron Lidell for CROOKED & NARROW
Original Score – Altermutz for REVOLTOSO
Actor Female – Angela Barotia for REMITTANCE
Actor Male – Alex Shaffer for DELINQUENT