South East European Film Festival, SEE Fest 2010 concluded Monday night in Los Angeles with the Awards Ceremony, where Turkish film “A Step into the Darkness” directed by Atil Inac., won festival’s Critics Award for Best Film.

SEE Fest Filmmakers Circle presented inaugural Best First Feature Film Award for “The Other Irene” director Andrei Gruzsniczki to film’s lead actor Andi Vasluianu, whose participation at the festival was supported by RCINY

Two young American indie filmmakers from the SEE Fest’s Filmmakers Circle, Elizabeth Henderson and Rich Sturdevant presented Award for Best First Feature Film for ”The Other Irene”. On behalf of director Andrei Gruzsniczki the lead actor from the film, Andi Vasluianu accepted the award.

SEE Fest Audience vote went to two films, tied with the highest voting score: Bulgarian feature “A Farewell to Hemingway” by Svetoslav Ovtcharov, a Chekhovian chamber drama about a stationmaster’s daughter and her fictitious rendez-vous with Ernest Hemingway during his real-life daylong passage through Bulgaria in 1922; and Turkish documentary powerhouse, “Voices Unveiled – Turkish Women Who Dare” by Binnur Karaevli, about three courageous women - an artist, an activist, and a dancer, who challenge the familiar stereotypes of Muslim women.

[Actor Andi Vasluianu accepting the Award from American directors Elizabeth Henderson and Rich Sturdevant]