Edinburgh Film Fest returns honours

The Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival has reinstated several major honours, including best worldwide feature film with a growing director, best performance in the British feature film as well as the Michael Powell Award for top British feature. Previously years within the fest, the Michael Powell Award honored the most effective British feature film selected within the British Gala section in the significant change to the 2012 edition, documentaries can also be qualified. The performance award is going to be provided for a person for exceptional be employed in a U.K. feature-length production. The world feature film with an emerging director kudo can also be open to documents. Both British and worldwide competition sections will probably be judged by worldwide juries. Qualifications for your honours will probably be within the artistic director's discretion it will be achievable for worldwide and British features to screen incorporated within the program but from competition. Fest artistic director Chris Fujiwara mentioned in the statement, "I am delighted to re-introduce these honours for your Festival this year and am thrilled to give both documentary and fiction films the opportunity to win the honours. I'm very strongly that getting significant honours is important with an worldwide film festival. Honours can stimulate creative dialogue and more importantly help shine the spotlight on emerging talent, that's part of the mission of EIFF." Contact Carole Horst at carole.horst@variety.com