Cary Joji Fukunaga's Sin Nombre
received three nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. If you haven't seen this film, check it out -- it's pretty damn awesome.Big props to our friend Karin Chien, who received a Producer Award nomination for her work with The Exploding Girl and Santa Mesa
. The Piaget Producers Award honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources demonstrate the creativity, tenacity, and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant.Congratulations also goes to So Yong Kim's feature Treeless Mountain
, which was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award, given to the best feature made for under $500,000. Cinematographer Anne Misawa also received a nomination.Last but not least, the South Korean film Mother, directed by Bong Joon-Ho, received a nomination for Best Foreign Film. I've been really looking forward to checking this one out. (It gets a U.S. release next year.)