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Beverly Hills Film Festival

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    Golden Palm Award

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      Tre lire - Primo giorno

      6.9 (16)
      Andrea Pellizzer

    Jury Award

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    Best Animation

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      Botnik!

      6.8 (6)
      Jacqueline Smessaert

    Best Documentary

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      Life After Death

      Shawn David Thompson

    Best Short Film

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      Way Up North

      7.6 (18)
      Levi A. Taylor(director/writer)
      Crooked Pictures

    Special Jury Award

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    Best Feature Film

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      War Against the Weak

      8.5 (32)
      Justin Strawhand

    Best Director

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      Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas

      4.0 (792)
      Michael Feifer

    Best Male Performance

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      Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas

      4.0 (792)
      Antonio Sabato Jr.

    Best Female Performance

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      Winner

      Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas

      4.0 (792)
      Caia Coley

    Best Screenplay

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      Salud

      8.2 (13)
      Cesar De León

    Best Editor

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    Best Editing

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      Way Up North

      7.6 (18)
      Levi A. Taylor(editor)
      Crooked Pictures

    Best Foreign Film

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      Tre lire - Primo giorno

      6.9 (16)
      Andrea Pellizzer
      Fabrizio Veronese

    Audience Choice Award

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    Best Documentary

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      Henry O!

      8.0 (37)
      Ziad H. Hamzeh

    Best Film

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      Winner

      Gangster Exchange

      4.3 (498)
      Dean Bajramovic(producer)
      David Krae(producer)

    Best Short Film

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      Dan and a Van

      John Nijhawan(Director / Writer)
      Ezra Venetos(Producer)
      Shark Films
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      Gone Fishing

      7.9 (246)
      Chris Jones

    Golden Palm Screenplay Competition

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    Best Screenplay

    • Winner
      • Alek Carrera
      For "Why We Live".
      • Dan Reheuser
      • Dan Reheuser
      • Obie Scott Wade
      • Obie Scott Wade
      • Dan Reheuser

    • DEJA DUET: Rump-Trumpet in the Key of Garlic

      Heather Mehudar(screenwriter)
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      Darby Petty and the Lost Treasure

      D.C. Sayre

    Living Legends Award

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    • Haskell Wexler at an event for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
      Winner
      • Haskell Wexler

    Best Actress

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    • Spank Bank

      Shevaun Kastl(actor)

    Best Animation

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    Animation

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        A Christmas Carl

        5.8 (24)
        Michael P. O'Hara
        Waking Dream Productions

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      Event date

      April 1, 2009 - April 5, 2009

      Event location

      Beverly Hills, California, USA

      Event links

      • http://www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com/

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