Bruins honored at Berlinale '09

Read Professor María Elena de las Carreras‘ first-person reports from Berlinale 2009

The Berlin International Film Festival is one of the world’s largest cinematic celebrations: 400 films, 20,000 accredited guests, 270,000 individual admissions. And when the prizes awarded to films in competition were announced on February 15, several Bruins marched to the podium.

The Silver Bear in the Best Script category went to “The Messenger,” co-written by Alessandro Camon MA ’94. Woody Harrelson stars as a senior officer in the Army’s Casualty Notification Office who becomes a mentor to recent Iraq veteran Ben Foster.

The Crystal Bear for Best Feature was conferred upon “My Suicide,” co-produced, written and edited by Jordon J. Miller ’08 and photographed by Lisa Wiegand MFA ’98. Gabriel Sunday is a 17-year-old who becomes a media celebrity when he annouces his plan to commit suicide live on the Internet.

“My Suicide” will have its U.S. premiere at the Austin, Texas, SXSW Festival in March.

Also attending the Berlinale this year were Professor Jean-Louis Rodrigue, teaching his workshop “Embodying the Character” at the festival’s invitational Talent Campus, and alumnus Mischa Livingstone ’97, MFA ’99, who screened his short film A Little Night Fright at the Festival in 2008 and was invited back this year to participate in the Campus.

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