The 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by American Express, today announced the winners of its competitions at an awards dinner at Jing Fong restaurant in Chinatown, New York City.

This year's Festival included 157 features and 88 short films from 47 countries. The world competition winners were chosen from 18 narrative and 16 documentary features from 25 countries. Two awards were also given to honor New York films, which were chosen from 14 narrative and eight documentary features. Of the 62 short films in competition, awards were given for best narrative, best documentary and student visionary film. The winner of the Cadillac Award, determined by audience vote, will be announced on Saturday, May 5, 2007 at the Closing Night premiere of the HBO documentary film The Gates.

A full list of awards, sponsors, presenters, prize amounts and associated artwork is listed below. A separate document of film synopses is attached for your reference.

"The talent of this year's award winners and their diverse storytelling styles is truly impressive," said Jane Rosenthal. "We are thrilled that the Festival has helped to bring all of our filmmakers' voices to light and that the film community and our New York neighbors have continued to embrace the Festival year after year."

"I'm very proud that the Festival not only supports the community through this annual celebration of film but allows us to acknowledge great talent working around the world," said Robert De Niro. "Our congratulations to this year's award winners."

"It's gratifying that several juries offered spontaneous enthusiasm for the high level of work they watched during this festival," said Peter Scarlet, Executive Director of the Festival. "This in fact echoes remarks we've heard from viewers at many of our screenings: intelligent, challenging movies are indeed alive and well, and there is an appreciative audience for films that find new ways to open our eyes to the world around us."

"It gives us tremendous pleasure to be able to support extraordinary filmmakers through our long standing partnership with The Tribeca Film Festival," said John Hayes, Chief Marketing Officer, American Express. "We are honored to help recognize the accomplishments of these talented individuals and to help them advance towards future pursuits."

In addition to cash awards and in-kind services provided by sponsors including: Budweiser Select, Apple, Delta Air Lines, Bloomberg, Empire State Development Corporation/I Love New York, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - the Festival presented the winners with awards created by acclaimed artists.

This year's award winning films will be screening throughout the weekend and tickets are available at www.tribecafilmfestival.org.

Following are the awards and their winners:

The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature
My Father My Lord (Hofshat Kaits), directed by David Volach (Israel).

Best New Narrative Filmmaker
Two Embraces (Dos Abrazos), directed by Enrique Begne (Mexico).

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film
Lofti Edbelli in Making Of (Akher film), directed by Nouri Bouzid (Tunisia, Morocco).

Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film
Marina Hands in Lady Chatterley, directed by Pascale Ferran (France, Belgium).

Best Screenplay
Making Of (Akher film), written and directed by Nouri Bouzid (Tunisia, Morocco).

Best Documentary Feature
Taxi to the Darkside, directed by Alex Gibney (U.S.A.).

Best New Documentary Filmmaker
A Story of People in War & Peace, directed by Vardan Hovhannisyan (Armenia).

"NY Loves Film" - Documentary
A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory, directed by Esther Robinson (U.S.A.).

"Made In NY" - Narrative
The Education of Charlie Banks, directed by Fred Durst (U.S.A.).

"Made In NY" Special Jury Recognition - Narrative
The Killing of John Lennon, directed by Andrew Piddington (U.K.).

Best Narrative Short
The Last Dog in Rwanda (Den sista hunden i Rwanda), directed by Jens Assur (Sweden).

Special Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short
Super Powers, directed by J. Anderson Mitchell & Jeremy Kipp Walker (U.S.A.).

Best Documentary Short
A Son's Sacrifice, directed by Yoni Brook (U.S.A.).

Student Visionary Award
Good Luck Nedim (Sretan Put Nedime), directed by Marko Santic (Slovenia).

Student Visionary Award
Someone Else's War, directed by Lee Wang (U.S.A./Philippines).

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award - Documentary
Dee Rees for her documentary work-in-progress, Eventual Salvation

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award - Narrative
Ben Rekhi for his current screenplay, Waste, co-written by John Campo.

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award - Screenwriting
Marilyn Fu for her screenplay, The Sisterhood of Night, an adaptation of the short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Millhauser.

Recipient of the 2007 Tribeca/Sloan Screenplay Development Program Grant
David Freeman for A First Class Man.

L'Oréal Paris Women of Worth Vision Award
Cherien Dabis for her screenplay Amreeka.