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Cinema Paradiso
1988
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Franco Catalano
Cast · Known for Malena
Franco Catalano is an actor and writer known for Cinema Paradiso (1988), Malena (2000) and The Five Days (1973).
James Warren
James Warren is from London and before becoming and actor and filmmaker represented Great Britain in Judo for twelve years winning a Gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Warren has appeared in five Guy Ritchie films, worked with Oscar winning Director Guiseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) and most recently Tom Paton playing the role of Bartlett in the upcoming 400 Bullets.
Marco Leonardi
Cast · Known for Cinema Paradiso
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marco Leonardi (born November 14, 1971) is an Italian actor. Leonardi was born in Australia to Italian parents. He moved to Italy at the age of four and starred in the famous movie Cinema Paradiso and in the Mexican movie Like Water for Chocolate (1993). He has made several movies in the United States, such as Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Other appearances include the Canadian film The Five Senses. Leonardi was engaged to Mexican actress Lumi Cavazos from 1991 to 1999.Leonardi lived in Los Angeles for 10 years. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marco Leonardi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Blasco Giurato
Cinematographer · Known for Cinema Paradiso
Blasco Giurato (born 7 June 1941) is an Italian cinematographer. Born in Rome, Giurato is the brother of journalist Luca Giurato and of singer-songwriter Flavio Giurato. He was nominated to the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso. In 1993, he won the Globo d'oro for the cinematography of Tornatore's A Pure Formality. In 1997, he was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography for his work in Maurizio Zaccaro's The Game Bag. Source: Article "Blasco Giurato" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Agnese Nano
Cast · Known for Cinema Paradiso
Agnese Nano (born 5 November 1965 in Rome) is an Italian film, TV and theater actress. Her first appearance was in 1987 but she became famous after her role as the young "Elena Mendola" in Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore, in 1988. Nano felt that playing Elena "was a deeply nurturing experience, crucial for the development of her future career." Source: Article "Agnese Nano" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Enzo Cannavale
Cast · Known for Cinema Paradiso
Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (5 April 1928 – 18 March 2011) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including Cinema Paradiso, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990. He was awarded the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actor in 32 dicembre (December 32nd) by Luciano De Crescenzo. Source: Article "Enzo Cannavale" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Tano Cimarosa
Cast · Known for Cinema Paradiso
Tano Cimarosa, real name Gaetano Cisco, (1 January 1922 – 24 May 2008) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He participated in more than fifty movies. He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film Cinema Paradiso from 1988. He is known to horror film fans for directing Reflections in Black in 1975. Source: Article "Tano Cimarosa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Franco Cristaldi
Producer · Known for Cinema Paradiso, The Name of the Rose
Franco Cristaldi (Turin, 3 October 1924 – Montecarlo, 1 July 1992) was an Italian film producer, credited with producing (or co-producing) feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s. In 1946 Cristaldi founded Vides Cinematografica in Turin. This production company initially produced short and documentary films, and would later be renamed to Cristaldifilm in the 1980s. In the 1950s, Cristaldi changed his attention to feature films and moved to Rome. During his long career, he worked with directors and screenwriters such as Francesco Rosi, Pietro Germi, Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Giuseppe Tornatore. A noted film producer from some years in his native Italy, some of Cristaldi's most successful films internationally included The Name of the Rose and Nuovo cinema Paradiso. (The former winning a César and two BAFTAs, and the latter winning several BAFTAs, the Grand Prix at Cannes, and Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards). In 1977 Cristaldi was elected president of the International Federation of Film Producers Associations, and was a member of the jury at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Cristaldi was born in Turin, Italy in 1924, and studied at university for a time before focusing his interests on cinema. He was first married to Carla Simonetti with whom he had a son, Massimo. He applied to the Vatican to have this marriage annulled, and from 1966 lived with actress Claudia Cardinale. Cristaldi claimed to have married Cardinale, but she refuted this, saying he threw a marriage party, without ever officially marrying her. He mentored Cardinale through her own film career, producing many of her films, until their separation in 1975. In 1983, he married Eritrean actress Zeudi Araya, who starred in several Cristaldi-produced films. Franco Cristaldi died in Montecarlo in 1992, survived by his wife Zeudi, son Massimo, and adopted son Patrick, the son of Claudia Cardinale. Source: Article "Franco Cristaldi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Giuseppe Tornatore
Director · Known for Cinema Paradiso, Malena
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo. He worked initially as a freelance photographer. Then, switching to cinema, he made his debut with Le minoranze etniche in Sicilia (The Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a collaborative documentary film which won a Salerno Festival prize. He then worked for RAI before releasing his first full-length film, Il Camorrista, in 1985. This evoked a positive response from audience and critics alike and Tornatore was awarded the Silver Ribbon for best new director. Tornatore's best known screen work was released in 1988: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, a film narrating the life of a successful film director who has returned to his native town in Sicily for the funeral of his mentor. This obtained worldwide success and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Subsequently Tornatore released several other films. In 2007 he won the Silver George for Best Director at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival for The Unknown Woman.
Mario Morra
Editor · Known for Cinema Paradiso
Mario Morra (born 1935) is an Italian film editor, director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, Morra began working as an assistant editor in the early 1960s, and made his debut as film editor in 1964. He gradually established himself up as one of the most representative of his profession, very active in art films as well as in less ambitious works. In 1990 he was nominated to BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso. In the 1970s and 1980s, Morra was also director or writer of several successful documentaries and Mondo films, often in collaboration with Antonio Climati like Turbo Time a documentary about the world of car and motorcycle racing. Source: Article "Mario Morra" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Andrea Crisanti
Production Design · Known for Cinema Paradiso
Andrea Crisanti (12 June 1936, in Rome – 7 May 2012) was an Italian production designer and art director. Crisanti studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He began his film career as assistant set designer to Mario Garbuglia by working on the set of The Great War (1959) with Mario Monicelli. His independent debut came with Maciste in Hell (1962) by Riccardo Freda. In 1970, Crisanti met Francesco Rosi, which proved crucial to the success of his career. He later worked on Cinema Paradiso (1988) and A Pure Formality (1994) by Giuseppe Tornatore, which won a David di Donatello Award. Sicily was one of his favourite places, and he recalled the pomp of the 17-century Bourbon period for the set of The Council of Egypt (2002) by Emidio Greco. Crisanti worked on Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982), Franzo Zeffirelli's Young Toscanini (1988), Gianni Amelio's The Stolen Children (1992), and Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (1983). He taught art at Rome's Experimental Cinematography Centre from 1995 until his death, and was president of A.S.C., the Set and Costume Designers Association. Source: Article "Andrea Crisanti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Giorgio Lupano
Cast · Known for The Ladies' Paradise
Giorgio Lupano was born on 5 October 1969 in Trofarello, Piedmont, Italy. He is an actor, known for The International (2009), Fear of Loving (2010) and München 7 (2004). Having graduated in 1993 from the school of the Teatro Stabile di Torino directed by Luca Ronconi, he began his artistic career as a theatre actor , later also working for cinema and television. One of his first important roles was in 2000, when he was among the protagonists of the film The Prince's Manuscript , directed by Roberto Andò . In 2004 he was again on the big screen with the films E ridendo l'uccise , directed by Florestano Vancini and Sotto falso nome , directed by Roberto Andò. On television he acted in the miniseries Regina dei fiori (2005), in the Canale 5 TV series RIS 4 - Delitti imperfetti (2008) and in the miniseries La stella della porta Accanto , broadcast in September 2008 on Rai 1. In 2009 he took part in the film La papessa directed by Sönke Wortmann. In the fall of 2010 he was the protagonist of the first season of Paura di amare on Rai 1 and in 2013 he was also the protagonist of the second season. From 2017 to 2018 he was part of the main cast of the series Sacrificio d'amore in the role of Corrado Corradi, involved in the love triangle with his wife Silvia and one of the workers Brando Prizzi. From 2018 to 2021 he played the character of Luciano Cattaneo in the Rai 1 afternoon soap opera Il paradiso delle signore .
Stefania Casini
After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where she acted in Andy Warhol's 'Bad'. While in New York she decided to move behind the camera, and became a director. With Francesca Marciano, she wrote and directed the film "Lontano da dove", presented at the Venice Film Festival (1983). In 1997 she wrote and directed another feature film "Un Paradiso di Bugie". Her career as director also includes the making of six feature films for the Italian television network MEDIASET. A passionate traveler, Stefania has made a great number of documentaries and reportages for RAI and MEDIASET. She focuses her attention on contemporary topics concerning women and young people. She has made many hard-hitting series including: "Islam: stories of women"; "Latin America: stories of women"; "To be 20 years old in..." (broadcast in ten European Countries 2004-2005); "So close so far :portraits in the suburbs". "Schiaffo alla mafia"(A blow to the Mafia) Between 2000-2002 , Stefania was the Artistic Director of Siena's Film Festival "Terra di Siena". In 2010 she was Managing Director of DGTV IESTV. Currently, Stefania writes and directs programs, reportages and documentaries for RAI, and for satellite channels: RAI Sat Cinema World, Gambero Rosso Channel, and Sky. She also works as a journalist, contributing to several popular women's magazines.
Sampoornesh Babu
Cast · Known for The Paradise
Sampoornesh Babu (born Pittampally Narasimha Chary) is an Indian actor who works primarily in Telugu cinema. He began his acting career with minor appearances, including a role as a protester in Krishna Vamsi's *Mahatma* (2009), before moving into leading roles. His breakthrough as a leading actor came with Sai Rajesh's spoof comedy *Hrudaya Kaleyam* (2014), for which he won the CineMAA Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role. He later appeared in the spoof action film *Singham 123* (2015) and played three characters—Paparayudu, Pedarayudu, and Andarayudu—in *Kobbari Matta* (2019). He was also a contestant on the first season of the reality show *Bigg Boss Telugu* (2017). He played the title role in the political satire *Martin Luther King* (2023), the Telugu remake of the Tamil film *Mandela*. His other films include *Bazaar Rowdy* (2021) and the dual-role comedy *Cauliflower* (2021). His subsequent projects include *Sodhara (Its Bromantic Story)* (2025), the Hindi drama *Bachcha Gang* (2026), and the multilingual film *The Paradise* (2026). He has also participated in philanthropic activities, including donations related to Cyclone Hudhud and the Chennai floods.
Bruce Sinofsky
Bruce Sinofsky (March 31, 1956 – February 21, 2015) was an American documentary film director, particularly known for his films the Paradise Lost trilogy, Brother's Keeper and Some Kind of Monster, all created with Joe Berlinger. Sinofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts. As Senior Editor for Maysles, he worked on commercials and feature films until 1991, when he and Joe Berlinger formed their own production company, Creative Thinking International. They jointly produce, edit, and direct documentary films which have appeared on over 50 critics choice lists, including Paradise Lost, Brother's Keeper, Hollywood High, and Some Kind of Monster. Their work is done in various styles, including a paen to the Cinéma vérité. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster covers the band as they participate in group therapy before recording their first album in five years. Paradise Lost chronicles the inhabitants of a small southern town a year after a series of brutal murders in style similar to that of award winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. They have also done a documentary on the southern record label for blues and country western artists, Sun Records called Good Rockin' Tonight. The first movie Sinofsky directed, in 1992, was the documentary My Brother's Keeper, which tells the story of Delbart Ward, an elderly man in Munnsville, New York, who was charged with second-degree murder following the death of his brother William. Chicago Tribune film critic Roger Ebert, in his review of the movie, called it "an extraordinary documentary about what happened next, as a town banded together to stop what folks saw as a miscarriage of justice." Sinofsky has won a Directors Guild Award and two Emmys.
Kayadu Lohar
Cast · Known for The Paradise
Kayadu Lohar (born April 11, 2000) is an Indian actress who works across Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil cinema. She made her feature film debut in the Kannada film Mugilpete (2021). In 2022, she portrayed Nangeli in the Malayalam period film Pathonpatham Noottandu (2022) and made her Telugu debut with Alluri (2022). She subsequently made her Tamil debut with Dragon (2025) and appeared in the Malayalam film Oru Jaathi Jaathakam (2025). In 2026, Lohar appeared in the Telugu film Funky (2026), the Malayalam productions Pallichattambi (2026) and I'm Game (2026), and the Tamil features Idhayam Murali (2026) and Immortal (2026), followed by the Telugu action drama The Paradise (2026).
Srikanth Odela
Director · Known for The Paradise
Srikanth Odela (born December 14, 1990) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Telugu cinema. He began his film career as an assistant director under filmmaker Sukumar, working on features including *Nannaku Prematho...* (2016) and *Rangasthalam* (2018). In 2023, Odela made his directorial and screenwriting debut with the period action drama *Dasara*. The film won him the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director – South and the SIIMA Award for Best Director – Telugu. He subsequently wrote and directed the action drama *The Paradise* (2026).
Angie Cepeda
Cast · Known for Encanto
(Angélica María) Angie Cepeda Jiménez is an actress born on August 2, 1974 in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia). Her parents are both lawyers, Yadhira Jiménez and José Cepeda. She lived in Barranquilla before moving to Bogota, where she worked as a model. In the 1990s she began participating in the soap operas "The curse of paradise", "Only a woman" and "Candela". The 1996 Angie debuted in cinema with the film by Sergio Cabrera, Ilona Arrives with the Rain. At the end of the 1990s she strengthened her broadcasting career with the recording of telenovelas such as "Luz Maria", "Las Juanas" and "Pobre Diabla". On the big screen she played one of her best roles with her character of the Colombian in the adaptation of Francisco Lombardi, Pantaleon y Las Visitadoras (2000). Other titles in the filmography of Cepeda are Samy and Me (2002), Argentine comedy co-starring Ricardo Darin, Love for Rent (2005), and The Dead One (2007), horror fantasy co-starring Wilder Valderrama. In the film For the Good of Others (2010) she shared center stage with Eduardo Noriega and Belén Rueda. The actress also took part in "The Protected", "Vientos de agua" and "Fuera de lugar" among other television productions.
Icíar Bollaín
Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (born June 12, 1967; Madrid) is a Spanish actress, director and writer. Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía. She began her work in cinema at the age of fourteen as part of the cast in Victor Erice's film El Sur (1983). Since then she has acted in fourteen films. Hola, estas sola? (Hi, are you alone? in English) (1995) was her first feature film as director, a story about two young girls who dream of finding an earthly paradise, and undertake a long trip towards the sea. Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from another world in English) (1999) was her second feature film, which she co-wrote with Julio Llamazares. It is the story of four women who travel to rural Spain with the hopes of finding love. Her latest film as writer and director is Te Doy Mis Ojos (I'll give you my eyes in English) (2003) which won seven Goya awards including Best Film. The movie is about the abusive marriage relationship between Pilar and Antonio. Her 2010 film Even the Rain was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. In January 2011, the film made the final nine shortlist.
Camila Pitanga
Cast · Known for Old River
Camila Pitanga Manhães Sampaio (born June 14, 1977), professionally known as Camila Pitanga, is a renowned Brazilian actress known for her performances in film and television. The daughter of actors Vera Manhães and Antônio Pitanga, and the sister of actor Rocco Pitanga, Camila began her artistic career as a child at the age of six in the film Quilombo (1984). Throughout her career, she stood out in various television productions, including the telenovela Paraíso Tropical (2007), where she played the character Bebel, a role that earned her the APCA (São Paulo Association of Art Critics), Qualidade Brasil, and Contigo! awards for Best Actress. She also starred in Cama de Gato (2009), Lado a Lado (2012), and Velho Chico (2016). In cinema, Camila starred in films such as Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil (2001), Redentor (2004), and Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos Seus Lindos Lábios (2011), for which she won the Prêmio Guarani for Best Actress. In September 2016, she was named the national ambassador for UN Women Brazil, committing to the defense of women's rights and the promotion of gender equality. In Beleza Fatal on Max, Camila Pitanga received a prominent role with great recognition, gaining significant attention for her performance, which became one of the telenovela's highlights.
Maxime Alexandre
Cinematographer · Known for Above & Below, Annabelle: Creation, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Maxime Alexandre was born in Renaix, Belgium, 1971. At five years old, he moved to Rome, Italy, with his mother, sisters, and brother. His stepfather, Inigo Lezzi (during that period A.D. for Marco Bellocchio, Gianni Amelio, and Nanni Moretti), let Maxime discover the Italian cinema sets one by one. Maxime soon worked as a young actor in several movies, including "Une Page d'Amour" directed by Elie Chouraqui, with Anouk Aimée and Bruno Cremer and Nanni Moretti's "Bianca" in 1984. A few years later, Maxime discovered his Photography passion on a set of a short-movie directed by his stepfather. In the late 1980s, Maxime moved with his family to Paris, where he began his career in the camera department working in commercials, learning from great Cinematographers like Darius Kondji, J.Y. Escoffier, P. Lhomme, Vilko Filak, and Italian cinematographers including Tonino Delli Colli and Franco Di Giacomo. His earliest work as a Director of Photography was shooting the second unit of a commercial for Michel Gondry. In 2001, Maxime met Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur, working in the second unit for Aja's father, Alexandre Arkadi, on the movie "Break of Dawn" written by Aja and Levasseur. The three collaborated on Aja's directorial debut, "High Tension," two years later. The movie was internationally recognized as the beginning of the French New Wave of horror in the 2000s and was picked up for distribution by Lions Gate Films. Maxime, Alexandre, and Gregory collaborated again on the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Mirrors." During the making of Hills Have Eyes, Maxime met Wes Craved, with whom he worked on "Paris, Je T'aime," an anthology film that grouped works from Alexander Payne, The Coen Brothers, Vincenzo Natali, and others, and the film was selected to screen at Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, the second time for Maxime after "Marock," a movie directed by Laila Marrakchi in 2005. In 2006, Maxime was recognized by Variety as one of its Ten Cinematographers to Watch. Several other films have followed, including P2, directed by Franck Khalfoun; The Crazies, by Breck Eisner; The Voices, directed by Marjane Satrapi; The Crawl, by Alexandre Aja; Shazam, by David F. Sandberg and soon-to-be-release Never let go by Alexandre Aja and Paris Paradis by Marjane Satrapi.
Éric Savin
Éric Savin (born Dijon, 14 November 1964) is a French film and TV actor. Savin comes from a rugby family, which meant he was more interested in a sports career. But a strong conviction led him to Paris to try a career as an actor. He was a hospital agent at the Bichat hospital in Paris from 1985 to 1988, and then passed the (Drama school) Cours Florent free class competition. It was during an audition that he met Xavier Durringer (playwright , screenwriter and filmmaker) with whom he still works today. He made his stage debut in 1989 in Lorenzaccio (written by Alfred de Musset) directed by Francis Huster. Bertrand Tavernier entrusted him with his first cinema role in 1992, as Inspector Lefort in L.627. He then alternated between theater, television and cinema. His first theatre successes came with Durringer's shows like La Petite Entaille in 1991, or Sureur in 1997, presented at the Avignon Festival. In 1993, he starred with actress Karin Viard in La nage indienne (the Indian Swim), in the first feature film by Durringer. Then he had several supporting roles including Giordano in Emmène-moi (Take me) by Michel Spinosa, distinguished at the Berlin International Film Festival and Captain Conan again with Tavernier in 1996, followed by I Hate Love (J'ai horreur de l'amour) by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa in 1997 then in 1998 social film Une minute de silence ('One minute of silence') the first film of Florent Emilio Siri. He returned to work with Durringer on J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici (I'll go to heaven because hell is here) in 1997, film is about gangsters. He gets a nomination to the Sept d'or for his portrayal of a divorced father who kidnaps his daughter in the TV movie Vacances volées (or Stolen Vacation), it was directed by Olivier Panchot. He also accompanies many filmmakers and directors from short to feature film, such as Laurent Firode (Les astres (The Stars) in 1998, Happenstance (The Butterfly's Wing Flapping) in 2000), with Pierre-Erwan Guillaume in Bonne résistance à la douleur, (Good resistance to pain) in 1999 and L'Ennemi naturel (The Natural Enemy) in 2004. Then with Lyčče Boukhitine for which he takes the character in her short film La Vielle barrière (The old barrier), which won a 'jury prize' at the festival of Clermont-Ferrand in 1998. Finally in 2002, he plays in the famous short film Squash directed by Lionel Bailliu, which was multi-award-winning in several festivals around the world, including the interpretation prize in Clermont-Ferrand. Lionel Bailliu won an Oscar nomination in 2004 for Best Live Action Short Film. This performance leads Éric Savin to take the leading role of the compulsive domineering boss in the feature film adaptation in 2006 entitled Fair Play where he shares the poster with Marion Cotillard and Benoît Magimel. ... Source: Article "Éric Savin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Alex Saks
Producer · Known for No Hard Feelings
Alex Saks is an American film producer. She studied history at Wake Forest University, then moved to Los Angeles, where her career began with an unpaid internship at the Mark Gordon Company. From that internship, she secured a position as an assistant and, over time, built up experience in film financing and development. In 2016, Saks co-founded the film production and financing company June Pictures with Andrew Duncan. The company was behind films such as The Florida Project (2017), Wildlife (2018), Book Club (2018), Thoroughbreds, Dude, and Fun Mom Dinner. After allegations against Andrew Duncan in 2017, Saks bought out his shares. The company ultimately shut down. In 2018, she founded Page Fifty-Four Pictures, an independent entertainment production and finance company. Under this banner, she has produced or been involved in films such as Chemical Hearts (2020), The Glorias (2020), Mack & Rita(2022) and Fool’s Paradise (2023), among others. Saks has also taken on higher-profile projects that transition between indie and commercial cinema, including No Hard Feelings (2023). Furthermore, Saks has earned recognition for The Florida Project (2017) and Wildlife (2018). For The Florida Project, she was nominated for several awards, including the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature, among others. For Wildlife, she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.