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Corbijn feature takes ‘Control’ of Edinburgh

Anton Corbijn’s Control picked up fest prizes for best British feature and best perf by actor (newbie actor Sam Riley). The coveted Audience Award award went to another Brit/directorial debut with Paul Taylor’s documentary film “We Are Together” winning for its portrait of an AIDS orphanage in South Africa.

Eric Lavallée

Published on August 27, 2007

Anton Corbijn's Control picked up fest prizes for best British feature and best perf by actor (newbie actor Sam Riley). The coveted Audience Award award went to another Brit/directorial debut with Paul Taylor's documentary film “We Are Together” winning for its portrait of an AIDS orphanage in South Africa.

Next year the festival moves from the crowded fall scene to a summer June event.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).