The Santa Barbara Film Festival awards were revealed late this morning, and the winners are as follows: American Spirit Award: Christopher Jaymes‘ In Memory of My Father, “an unfeigned plunge in to second-generation Hollywood royalty”; Gold Vision Award: Radu Mihaileanu‘s Live and Become; Best International Feature Award: Gavin Hood‘s Tsotsi; Nueva Vision Award for Best Spanish/Latin American Film: Manuel Martin Cuenca‘s Malas Temporadas; and Best Documentary Feature: Pippa Scott‘s King Leopold’s Ghost, about the history and legacy of Belgium’s King Leopold II and his country’s plundering of the Congo in the 1880s. I’m bypassing the remainder of the awards, but you can find them at the festival’s website later tonight or tomorrow.
