Johnny Was Wins Film Award

[L. Bird]

Regarding Roger's latest film, repost from IMDB Forum:

>Tacoma Film Festival hands out awards

The envelope, please.
And the Grandie goes to …

(Drum roll)

There really were envelopes opened and drum rolls – courtesy of a 
three-piece combo – heard when awards were handed out Thursday evening to 
the best pictures of the Tacoma Film Festival. The winners, selected by a 
panel of judges, were announced at a crowded closing-night gala held at the 
Crystal Ballroom in the old Winthrop Hotel downtown.

The festival’s top prize, dubbed the Grandie after the Grand Cinema which 
organized the week-long, 55-film event, is a handsome crystal column topped 
by a five-point star. It’s an impressive object, heavy as an Oscar.

The festival, which ran from Oct. 6 through Thursday, was itself judged to 
be a winner. “It has been tremendously successful,” said Michel Rocchi, 
president of the board of directors of the Grand.

There were a number of sell-out screenings, including the opening-night 
feature, “Johnny Was,” and the locally produced documentary, “Finding Thea,” 
about the life and times of Thea Foss.

“Johnny” and “Thea” each won a Grandie. “Johnny,” a gritty British crime 
drama about Irish Republican Army bombers battling Jamaican drug dealers in 
Brixton, won the best feature award.


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