New York festival honours Man and Boy but top awards go to Swedish and Israeli directors
A British film about the death of a suspected paedophile has won the award for best narrative short at the Tribeca film festival in New York.
Man and Boy, which was directed by David Leon and Marcus McSweeney, stars Eddie Marsan. It was inspired by the case of Scott Campbell, who fell to his death from a tower block in 2008 after trying to flee a mob who thought he had sexually assaulted a boy.
The jury said: "The jury liked this film's marriage of brilliant acting, superb technical prowess and provocative subject matter. It's a movie memorable for upending expectations."
There was another UK success at the festival when the British writer and director Jerry Rothwell won the best feature film prize in an online competition involving visitors to the Tribeca website.
His documentary film, Donor Unknown, is about JoEllen Marsh, a woman who was one of the first generation of children conceived through donor insemination and decided to embark on a quest find her biological father.
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