A TOTAL OF FIVE U.S.-made films won Chicago International Film Festival Gold and Silver Hugo awards. One of those five was a Best Actress Silver Hugo statuette to Liana Liberato for her breakthrough performance in David Schwimmer’s film “Trust,” in the International Feature Competition.
Three of the other four U.S. Hugos went to Docufest entries and the fourth for a New Director. A Russian feature, “How I Ended the Summer,” won the top Gold Hugo in the International Feature Film Competition.
IN CIFF’S INTERCOM COMPETITION, 32 Hugo statuettes, plaques and certificates were also awarded ? but only ONE Gold Hugo ? and that went to Foundation Content for its 2-minute United Way piece in the Charitable activity category.
The two other Chicago Intercom awardees: A Gold and Silver Plaque to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago for Charitable Activity and Arts/Culture, respectively; a Certificate of Merit: Education, Adult to DePaul University for its documentary, “Vincent de Paul: Charity’s Saint.”
Intercom, CIFF’s year-round non-theatrical competition, had double the number of entries than last year, so the Chicago awardees should feel very good about being tops in such a big and prestigious competition.
