The Edinburgh International Film Festival today announced the jury for two British film awards - the Michael Powell Award for the British feature film which shows the most "imagination and creativity" at the festival, and a new award for the best performance in a British film at the EIFF.
The 2007 jury includes:
Geoff Gilmore, Director, Sundance Film Festival
Jonathan Coe - British novelist, journalist and biographer
Natalie Press - actress, star of Andrea Arnold's Oscar-winning short “Wasp” Pawel Pawlikowski's Michael Powell Award-winner “My Summer of Love” and BBC's “Bleak House”
Kate Dickie - acclaimed Scottish stage actress, star of “Red Road”, 2007 UK Shooting Star;
Jay Weissberg – world renowned American film critic.
The Michael Powell Award was inaugurated in 1993 and is given to the best new British feature film in
the Festival.
For the first time, the Michael Powell Award jury will also be judging
a new award to honour the best performance in a British feature film. The new award was made by possible with the support
of PPG.
The titles eligible for the Michael Powell Award and PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film 2007 are:
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Control
Extraordinary Rendition
Hallam Foe
My Life as a Bus Stop
Saxon
Seachd - the Inaccessible Pinnacle
Special People
Sugarhouse
The Waiting Room
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