Thompson on Hollywood: Seattle Film Festival Wraps with 'The Bling Ring,' South African 'Fanie Fourie’s Lobola' Wins Audience Award

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Seattle Film Festival Wraps with 'The Bling Ring,' South African 'Fanie Fourie's Lobola' Wins Audience Award Jun 9th 2013, 18:41 The sprawling 39th Seattle International Film Festival, at 25 days the largest in the United States, wrapped up on Sunday. At the annual awards brunch at the Space Needle, director Carl Spence, jury members and some of his programming team of 25 announced the winners of the SIFF 2013 Competition and Golden Space Needle Audience Awards. The fest launched on May 16 with Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing," one of the more popular films at the fest, which ran over 447 films from 85 countries, including 49 World (18 Features, 31 Shorts), 48 North American (38 Features, 10 Shorts), 17 US Premieres (6 Features, 11 Shorts), and over 700 screenings. Spence thanked Delta Airlines for making it possible to bring in more talent and industry pros than ever before. Spence noted record attendance at this year's fest. Strikingly, the audience award-winner, "Fanie Fourie's Lobola," came from the first-ever African Pictures program of 18 films, which was made possible by a grant from the... Media files: zethu-dlomo-plays-dinky-magubane-in-fanie-fouries-lobla.jpg (image/jpeg)

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