Regrating of awards for My Suicide

July 25, 2009

The most awarded film of the 39th Giffoni Film Festival is “My suicide” which has got 3 awards: Category +16 Best Film, Jury, and MyMovies awards. “My Suicide”, directed by David Lee Miller is a low-cost film and tells about the story of the 17 years old Archie Williams (played by the actor Gabriel Sunday), who is a media genius. Suddenly, he announces that he will commit suicide in front of the cameras and, at once, he becomes the most popular student in his school: he grabs his schoolmates, consultants, doctors, pushers, the most beautiful girl in the school attention. Some people try to save him, others try to imitate him. Vargas, played by David Carradine, the death poet, advices him to kill only some parts of himself, so that he doesn’t have to commit suicide. Concerning the other categories: the Australian “Broken Hill” and the Danish “See you” has got respectively the Best Film and Best Short Film awards. For category +6, the film winners are: the Spanish “Carlitos and the chance of a lifetime” and the Norwegian short film “Fishing with Sam”; for category +10, the film winner is the Iranian “A time to love” together with the short film “Il mio ultimo giorno di guerra”. For category +16, the film winners are “My suicide” and the short film “The ground beneath”. As regard as the special awards: the Australian “Accidents happen” has won the Jury Award, the African “Skin” Amnesty International Award, the Australian “Broken Hill” and the Brazilian “Once upon a time in Rio” have won the Arca Cinemagiovani award, while the Salerno Music Conservatory has given the Best Soundtrack award to the film “The Greatest”, with Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan. “No head feelings” and “Broken Hill” have won the CGS award – Percorsi creativi 2009. Then “A year ago in winter” has won the Crystal Grifon of Banca della Campania, while the Aluminium award has been given to the Spanish “The missing lynx" and, to “Skin”. In the end, the Managing Director Claudio Gubitosi has withdrawn special prizes to “It’s not me, I swear” and to “Glowing Stars” (in Generator +13 category) and to “Once upon a time in Rio” and to “The greatest” (Generator+16 category).