The 28th edition of the signature event of the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, its annual Chlotrudis Awards, was held over Zoom this past weekend, welcoming special guest filmmakers and announcing multiple winners in several of its categories.  The top winners, each garnering 3 prizes each, were THE POWER OF THE DOG, and THE LOST DAUGHTER.  However, neither of these two earned the top nod of Best Picture – that honor went to Bosnia’s Oscar-nominated QUO VADIS, AIDA?, which dramatizes the events of the Srebrenica massacre.   All 3 films were helmed by women, which was a theme for the night, with the majority of winners from female-led productions. It is fitting that March is National Women’s History month as 11 of the 16 awards given out  at the ceremony went to women, or to women-helmed films.

Between the two more widely known winners, THE POWER OF THE DOG took Trudies for Jane Campion (Best Director), lead Benedict Cumberbatch (Best Actor) and Ari Wegner (Best Cinematographer).  Maggie Gyllenhaal’s THE LOST DAUGHTER won her Best Adapted Screenplay for her writing, and awarded the two performers in the film – Olivia Colman (Best Actress) and Jessie Buckley (Best Supporting Actress) in their respective portrayals for the present-day and younger versions of the main character, Leda.

This is not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

In the Society’s most prestigious category, the Buried Treasure, the winning film was THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION.  The first film from the country in Lesotho submitted for Oscar nomination, THIS IS NOT A BURIAL follows an elderly woman preparing for her death in a remote village, which is itself facing momentous change that challenges its existence.

Attendees came from several states and countries, including the night’s Special Guest Gabriel Rhodes, editor of last year’s Best Documentary winner, TIME.  Gabriel was joined in conversation with fellow filmmaker and Chlotrudis vet Wiebke von Carolsfeld (MARION BRIDGE, THE SAVER).

 

Here is the full list of winning films:

Best Movie

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Buried Treasure

This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Best Director

Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog

Best Actress

Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter

Best Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress

Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter

Best Supporting Actor

Vikash Bhai, Limbo

Best Original Screenplay

A Hero, screenplay by Asghar Farhadi

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Lost Daughter,  screenplay by Maggie Gyllenhaal

Best Use of Music in a Film

Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised – Randall Poster, Music Supervisor

Best Editing

Enat Sidi, I Carry You With Me

Best Cinematography

Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog 

Best Sound Design

Svook, Identifying Features

Best Production Design

Nora Mendis, Passing

Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast

Shiva Baby

Best Documentary

The Velvet Underground

CHLOTRUDIS AWARDS Showers Love on Women, DAUGHTER and DOG
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