Edinburgh Film Fest returns honours

The Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival has reinstated several major honours, including best worldwide feature film by a growing director, best performance inside a British feature film and also the Michael Powell Award for the best British feature. In the past years in the fest, the Michael Powell Award honored the very best British feature film selected in the British Gala section inside a significant switch to the 2012 edition, documentaries may also be qualified. The performance award will be provided for an individual for exceptional operate in a U.K. feature-length production. The worldwide feature film to have an emerging director kudo may also be available to paperwork. Both British and worldwide competition sections is going to be judged by worldwide juries. Qualifications for that honours is going to be in the artistic director's discretion it will likewise be feasible for worldwide and British features to screen included in the program but from competition. Fest artistic director Chris Fujiwara stated inside a statement, "I'm delighted to re-introduce these honours for that Festival this season and am very happy to give both documentary and fiction films the chance to win the honours. Personally i think very strongly that getting significant honours is essential to have an worldwide film festival. Honours can stimulate creative dialogue and most importantly help shine the spotlight on emerging talent, that is area of the mission of EIFF." Contact Carole Horst at carole.horst@variety.com