SITGES FORKS OVER THE TROPHIES

Green Cine has been flinging regular dispatches from the Sitges International Film Festival, which closes today, up on the internet, and the festival looks like it was Asian heavy this year (A BITTERSWEET LIFE, ONE MISSED CALL 2, and so on).

The prizes have all been announced and a bunch went to Asian flicks:

Best Director
Johnnie To for ELECTION (this link also features an English-language transcript of a press conference about the movie with To, Simon Yam and Lam Ka-tung).

Best Actor
Lee Kan-cheng for his performance as the buff porno playboy in Tsai Ming-liang's A WAYWARD CLOUD.
WAYWARD CLOUD also scored a special jury award.

Best Actress
Lee Yeong-Ae for her titular performance in the head-scratching, unsettling, deeply cryptic SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE.

Best Cinematography
SEVEN SWORDS dp Keung Kwok-man.

Best Original Score
Jang Yeong-Gyu for A BITTERSWEET LIFE.

Best Short Film
Taiwan's RESPIRE directed by Wi Ding-ho, a flick influenced by SARS which won two awards at this year's Cannes.