Robert Favreau Receives Bacardi Audience Award 

Monday, March 26------The 10th edition of the Bermuda International Film Festival came to a smashing close on Saturday night with its legendary Wrap Party at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess Hotel. Winners were announced for both juried and audience awards. The French Canadian film A SUNDAY IN KINGALI, by director Robert Favreau, won the Bacardi Limited Audience Choice Award. This emotional and highly effective drama of love, loss and regret as experienced by a French Canadian journalist and a local Rwandan woman is set against the background of the Rwandan genocide in 1994.  

BIFF 2007 WINNERS

Bacardi Limited Audience Choice: A SUNDAY IN KIGALI

A Sunday In Kingali

Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for Best Narrative Feature: SWEET MUD and CASHBACKCashback

Best Documentary: THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI

The Cats of Mirikitani

Special Jury Prizes for Documentaries: BEYOND THE CALL and LIVING WITH LEW  

Living With Lew

M3 Wireless Bermuda Shorts Award:   I WANT TO BE A PILOTI Want To Be A Pilot

Sandy Mandelberger, Awards Watch Editor