(Update Feb. 15) "Tsotsi" director Gavin Hood called from the East Coast to comment on winning the Best International Feature at the SBIFF:
"I am ecstatic to be honored with the Best International Feature from the Santa Barbara(International Film) Festival," Hood said. "For those who have seen the film in Santa Barbara can attest, "Tsotsi" is a film about redemption and personal responsibility that I think resonates with people anywhere in the world. My wonderful experience in Santa Barbara was filled with beautiful discussions with the residents of a city with strong intellectual capacities. You never really know how a film is going to do until it hits release. "Tsotsi" is going to be out on the 24th and that is when the real test begins. But if the response in Santa Barbara was any indication how it will fare, I have to think that I will be pleased."
Presley Chweneyagae (right) stars as the main character in "Tsotsi". The Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film won the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's "Best International Feature Award" on Sunday. Directed by Gavin Hood (picture below), the film is based in the shantytowns of Johannesburg South Africa where a young hoodlum (played wonderfully by Chweneyagae), encounters a baby in the back of a car he just stole. Determined to do things differently, Tsotsi is encounters many obstacles that lay in front of him due to his actions from the past.
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