Initials S.G. Photo: Falco Ink. The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival is coming to a close, and the festival announced the Jury Prize winners Thursday night. The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature went to Burning Cane, Phillip Youmans’s movie about the fractured relationship between a mother and son in rural Louisiana. Youmans is the first African-American director to win the award, and the youngest director to have a feature in Tribeca (he wrote, directed, and shot the film at age 17). Rania Attieh will take home the Nora Ephron Award for Initials S.G., starring Diego Peretti and Julianne Nicholson. In the acting categories, Haley Bennett won Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film for Swallow, and Wendell Pierce won Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film for Burning Cane. This year’s Tribeca jurors included Angela Bassett, Jenny Lumet, Steve Zaillian, Justin Long, Piper Perabo, Debra Messing, Chloë Sevigny, and DeWanda Wise. The winners of the … [Read more...] about The Tribeca Film Festival Just Gave Its Biggest Award to a 19-Year-Old