The Tribeca Film Festival presented its awards Saturday night in Lower Manhattan, with Li Shaohong's banned Chinese film "Stolen Life" awarded the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at TFF 2005.

Péter Forgács's "El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War” won the prize for best documentary feature.

The complete list of winners follows:

Adam Curtis' "The Power of Nightmares" provoked audiences here in Tribeca, as the filmmaker screened the original 3 part BBC series that screened in Britain last fall. A new, re-cut theatrical version will debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month. In a Village Voice piece ahead of the festival, filmmaker Curtis offered some insights on the film:

Richard Leong reports on Felicity Huffman in the Tribeca Film Festival film, "Transamerica," a movie that has had both buyers and audiences buzzing at the festival:

The winners of the Tribeca All Access Connects program, fostering relationships between U.S. filmmakers of color and members of the film business, were announced Thursday. During the party at the Tribeca Grand, Dennis Lee won the narrative section script prize ($10,000) for "The Life & Times of H.J. Hermin". The documentary prize ($10,000) went to Usama Alshaibi's proposal for "Nice Bombs". Mario de la Vega" wont the screenplay section award ($5,000) for the script, "The Undeniable Charm of Sloppy Unruh".

New Yorker Films has acquired the theatrical, home video/DVD, broadcast and cable TV rights to Jessica Sanders' Tribeca Film Festival movie "After Innocence", a new documentary that looks at the lives of DNA exonerees. indieWIRE reported today that the company will release the movie in New York City this fall. The film premiered earlier this year at Sundance.

Matt Dentler reports from Tribeca in his blog:

So, yes, the rumors are true: last night was an insane evening of parties. How insane? So much so, that Associated Press reporter Christy Lemire filed a story today recounting it all. With my new camera, I thought I'd try to get a visual depiction of the night of a thousand parties.

Meanwhile, on his blog, Jared Moshe offers a tip on 'How not to get into a party'.

There are so many parties during the Tribeca Film Festival, you could literally spend an evening hopping from one to the next without seeing a single movie.
While it feels like there are more celebrations than ever before, organizers say the festival is simply better at publicizing them now, in its fourth year. "Like everything at our festival, I think things are happening organically for us," said Tribeca president Jennifer Maguire Isham. Christy Lemire reports for A.P.

[Tribeca daily dispatch by Eugene Hernandez.]

At last year's Tribeca Film Festival, which marked the debut of the Tribeca All Access program for filmmakers of color, I moderated a discussion entitled "Diversifying America Cinema" and wrote an article that surveyed industry leaders on the lack of ethnic diversity within the independent film industry. Sadly, in the year since the panel and survey, not much seems to have changed for filmmakers of color seeking representation within the business. Yet, TAA filmmakers are forging ahead with new movies and two 2004 Tribeca All Access participants are back this year.

When, if ever, will an erotic film not marketed as pornography show a man and a woman enjoying spontaneous, passionate full-frontal sex? With the appearance of Michael Winterbottom's "9 Songs," the answer is now. Stephen Holden reports in the New York Times.

Comments by actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of "A Great New Wonderful," a film about New York after September 11th, have caused a bit of buzz here in New York City, according to the local daily paper, Newsday. Arriving for Friday's showting, Gyllenhaal told NY1 television that the United States bears some responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. A web poll posted on the paper's website indicated that more than 42% of those polled agree with her, while nearly 30% of those polled disagree with her and feel that she should apologize. Others either said they disagree but she has a right to her opinion (15%), the incident is blown out of proportion (10.5%) or they have no opinon (2%).

A new documentary made in North Korea offers a glimpse of daily life in a reclusive Communist state so shuttered to outsiders that even foreign diplomats have taken tips from the film. President Bush famously called North Korea part of an "axis of evil," but director Daniel Gordon's film "A State of Mind" shows a different side of the country. He shows a mother cooking, children playing and families picnicking. Richard Leong reports in Reuters.

Sebastian Telfair was at Jay-Z's Manhattan nightclub with his family, watching TV and waiting for the announcement from the Madison Square Garden podium that would send him across the country and change his life. The Brooklyn point guard with a dazzling mix of smarts and skills was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 13th pick in last year's NBA draft. That moment is captured by director Jonathan Hock and cinematographer Alastair Christopher in "Through the Fire." The documentary made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Christy Lemire reports for A.P.