Munyurangabo, Stranded takes top prizes at Sarasota Film Festival

Lee Isaac Chung's feature Munyurangabo and Gonzalo Arijon's documentary Stranded: I Have Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains won the key competition prizes at the 2008 Sarasota Film Festival as Joshua Safdie's The Pleasure Of Being Robbed took the Independent Visions Competition Award.

All three winners receive a $5,000 cash prize.

In the audience awards, which each carry a $1,000 cash prize, Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces was named best narrative feature and Jody Lambert's Of All The Things won best documentary.

Juha Wuolijoki's Christmas Story from Finland won best in world cinema and Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega's La Corona took best short film.

The festival spanned April 4 to 13. For further information visit www.sarasotafilmfestival.com.

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