After screening 60 films at the 5th Annual Gold Coast International Film Festival, the winners were announced at the closing awards ceremony, held at LOLA.
The Deluxe film Award for Best Documentary also was a tie: “Mind Game,” about WNBA superstar Chamique Holdsclaw, a Queens native, who became the best and most famous women’s basketball player on the planet, the “female Michael Jordan,” until her career was derailed by depression and near-suicide, a film made by two-time Oscar nominee Rick Goldsmith. this was The New York premiere of the documentary.
The other winner was “We are Twisted F*cking Sister!”, a documentary about the flamboyant band, making its Long Island premiere – appropriate since the band had such strong connections to Long Island and the Long Island “club scene” of the 1970s.
The winner of “Best Narrative Panavision Award” went to “Mustang,” directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, a poignant, eloquent drama, about five sisters in a Turkish village band together to fight back against the limits imposed on them. D
irect from the Cannes Film Festival the film is France’s official submission to the Academy Awards.
The short film “Subway Love,” tied with “Tender Stories #1” for the juried award of best in show. the best student film was “The Present.” The audience award for best short film went to “Grounded.”
