15th Annual Gen Art Film Festival Awards

With the New York early spring weather reminded Viva that she is quite partial to sunning herself on an intergalactic rock, she braved the nightlife last night for the 15th Annual Gen Art Film Festival Awards. As of this posting no one seems to have uploaded anything yet on the web so the winners were:

The Acura Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film ($10,000)
Tanner Hall

The Acura Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film ($5,000)
The Poodle Trainer

The Wonderwall Stargazer Award
Rooney Mara (Tanner Hall)

The Audience Awards for Best Feature
"happythankyoumoreplease"

The Audience Award for Best Short Film
The Hirosaki Players (supporting Mercy)

Wonderwall takes a look back at stars who've joined the Gen Art indie scene over the past 15 years while vlogger David Jr. has interviews with the Tanner Hall and Teenage Paparazzo (HBO will air later this year) folk. Busy at pre-screens for the Tribeca Fest, CosmicViva was in the ethereal blissful position of not having seen any of the features or shorts i.e. not having to pretend you liked something to avoid loss of face in true NYC fashion. But at the Mercy BLVD nightclub after-party (directed by celebrity photographer Patrick Hoelck and written and produced by Scott Caan-son of famous movie star dad James) the film was deemed very moving by some 'normal' non-scene people) and the Don Julio tequila (sponsored by Diageo) was as good as at the launch party - good spirit drinking can indeed be akin to good eating. Rooney Mara (Tanner Hall) was even more beautiful and alluring in the flesh, and Daughters short directer Chloé Zhao matched her in elegance (she was hotfoot on a train to Florida this morning for more festival promotion). Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini (Tanner Hall - the private world of an all-girls boarding school in a run down New England town) modestly basked in the limelight of the film's just announced acquisition by Moving Pictures Film and Television (MPF&TV) -it premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Then there was the guy who reminisced to me about his time with Iron Maiden (did you know that Bruce Dickinson was also a fencer, airline pilot etc) - ahhhh New York don't you love it- not such a bad bit of rock to be stranded upon.
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