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By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com Guides to Independent Film since 1999

Eastern Promises Wins Audience Award in Toronto

Sunday September 16, 2007
David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises won the People's Choice Award on Saturday at the Toronto Film Festival, wrapping up a ten day fest that featured 349 films from all over the world. Eastern Promises, which opened in the U.S. on Friday, is a tense and bloody thriller about the Russian mafia in London, already famous for a scene in which a nude and tattooed Viggo Mortensen battles mobsters in a steam room. Naomi Watts and Vincent Cassel also star.

Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue's Iraq war documentary Body of War and Jason Reitman's comedy Juno, about a pregnant teen, were runners-up for the audience award.

Guy Maddin received the Toronto-City Award for best Canadian feature film for My Winnipeg, a portrait of Maddin's hometown. Stephane Lafleur's Continental, Un Film Sans Fusil won the prize for best debut feature by a Canadian filmmaker.

The FIPRESCI International Critics Prize was given to Mexican filmmaker Rodgrio Pla's La Zona. Israel Cardenas and Laura Amelia Guzman's Cochochi  received the Discovery Award. The Artistic Innovation Award was given to the Argentian film Encarnacion by Anahi Berneri.

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