{"id":15358,"date":"2013-04-27T23:04:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T23:04:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-27T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T23:04:02","slug":"Tribeca-Audience-Award-goes-to-The-Rocket-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15358","title":{"rendered":"Tribeca Audience Award goes to ‘The Rocket’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Laos-set drama “The Rocket” and the documentary about same-sex unions “Bridegroom” have won the top audience awards at the Tribeca Film Festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tribeca’s Heineken Audience Awards carry $25,000 cash prizes, which were given out at the festival’s wrap party and awards announcement on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Australian director Kim Mordaunt made “The Rocket,” which follows a young boy in rural Laos as he tries to find a new home and escape the country’s legacy of war.<\/strong> On Thursday, the film also won the top jury prize, and non-professional actor Sitthiphon Disamoe was named the festival’s top actor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tribeca patrons ranked each film on a scale of 1-to-5 as they left all of the festival’s public screenings. TFF kept a running tally of the top-ranked films throughout the festival; in the final update before Saturday’s announcement, “The Rocket” and “Bridegroom” were both in first place. <\/p>\n

Among narrative films, “The Rocket”<\/strong> was followed by “A Birder’s category_ide to Everything,” “Wadjda,” “G.B.F.” and “Before Midnight.” <\/p>\n