Tribeca Film Festival winners announced

The Yacoubian Building

The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival has concluded with a star-studded awards dinner at The Golden Bridge in New York City.

This year's festival featured 274 films from 40 countries.

"We're very pleased with the growth of the festival and most appreciative of the support we've received from our sponsors, the community and all our volunteers," said Robert De Niro, who founded the festival in 2002 as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature
Blessed By Fire

Best Documentary Feature
War Tapes

Best New Narrative Filmmaker
Marwan Hamed for The Yacoubian Building

Best New Documentary Filmmaker
Pelin Esmer for The Play

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film
Jürgen Vogel in The Free Will

Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film
Eva Holubova in Holiday Makers

NY Loves Film Documentary
When I Came Home, Dan Lohaus

Best Made in New York Narrative Feature
The Treatment, Oren Rudavsky

Best Narrative Short
The Shovel

Best Documentary Short
Native New Yorker

Student Visionary Award
Dead End Job

Audience Award
The Cats of Mirikitani

Tribeca Film Institute/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenplay Development Winners
Signature: The Starry Messenger
Main programme: Project Mustard; Challenger

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Narrative Feature
Before the Beast Returns

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature
"Outside The Box"

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Screenwriting
Milton Liu for "John Hughes Ruined My Life"