TC FESTIVAL FILE: Urbanworld

The 10th Annual Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival announced the winners for its feature, documentary, short film, screenplay and music video categories on Sunday (June 25), in a closing awards brunch in New York City. The festival screened 70 films this year, including VH1’s Last Days of Left Eye, a full-length vivid documentary recounting the final month in the life of Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes of TLC. The festival also screened The Will to Survive – The Story of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, which stares into the spirit and soul of Georgia’s Sapelo Island. In addition, the festival conducted a special screening of Shaft, in the honor of the film’s late director Gordon Parks. The winners are as follows: Best Narrative Feature Film: Wholetrain; Best Narrative Documentary Film (Feature Length): American Blackout; Best Narrative Short Documentary Film: Adios, Para Siempre; Best Documentary Short Film: God Sleeps in Rwanda; Best Music Video: Churrp; Best Screenplay: The Man Who’s Never Been Kissed; & the Audience Award Winner: Word Life: The Hip-Hop Project. Clockwise from upper left: Zoe Saldana, representing her film Premium; Meagan Goode, promoting Miles From Home; Stacie J and Rosie Perez courtesy of Tasty Clips shooter Deborah Marcano.