Short Film News (SFN)- The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, announced the winners of its competition categories in New York City.

The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 21 countries. Best New Director prizes were awarded for both narrative and documentary films, selected from all feature films by a first-time director throughout the program. 

Awards were also given for the best narrative short, best documentary short and student visionary films in the short film competitions. This year’s Festival included 93 features and 60 short films from 40 countries.

This year the Festival introduced new annual awards in the narrative competition for Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay, and in the documentary competition for Best Editing. Also announced at the awards were the Tribeca (Online) Film Festival feature and short film winners selected by the online audience. The winner of the Heineken Audience Award, determined by audience votes throughout the Festival, will be announced on April 30.

The winners and their awards are:

Best Documentary Feature – Bombay Beach, directed by Alma Har’el.

Best Editing in a Documentary Feature – Purcell Carson, Semper Fi: Always Faithful (USA).

Best New Documentary Director – Pablo Croce for Like Water, (USA).

Special Jury Mention – Michael Collins, director of Give Up Tomorrow (UK, USA).

Best Narrative Short – Man and Boy, directed by David Leon and Marcus McSweeney, written by David Leon and Rashid Rasaq (UK).

Special Jury Mention – The Terms, written and directed by Jason LaMotte (UK).

Best Documentary Short – Incident in New Baghdad, written and directed by James Spione (US).

Special Jury Mention – Guru, written and directed by Jonathan VanBallenberghe (USA).

Full list of winners are available on the Festival website, www.tribecafilm.com.