manda-bala

STV · 03/19/08 02:08PM

The Oscars are sooo over. Or at least they are for a gang of upstart documentary experts who hosted last night's inaugural Cinema Eye Honors in New York, where a handful of acclaimed nonfiction films from 2007 refuted the penguins-and-climate change model that organizers say hijacked the Academy Awards a few years back. "When these movies don't get seen, you feel like you're fucking losing," said Manda Bala director Jason Kohn, whose explosive doc about corruption in Brazil won three prizes including Best Film. "You feel like somebody else is winning, and that person is no good." Except that filmmaker Alex Gibney also took home a prize for his recent Academy Award-winner Taxi to the Dark Side. All right, but next year, seriously: The Oscars are over. [indieWIRE]