{"id":1094,"date":"2015-02-13T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2015-03-07T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T21:27:10","slug":"teddy-winner-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2015\/02\/13\/teddy-winner-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"TEDDY WINNER 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best Feature Film<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Nasty Baby<\/strong><\/a>
\nNasty Baby<\/em><\/p>\n

USA 2014
\n100′
\nDirector: Sebasti\u00e1n Silva
\nCast: Kristen Wiig, Sebasti\u00e1n Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Agustin Silva<\/p>\n

\"Nasty_Baby\"<\/a>
\u00a9 Brigitte Dummer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Freddy is an artist whose desire for a baby has become something of an obsession. He surrounds\u00a0himself with photographs of his childhood and is working feverishly on a fresh piece about new-borns.\u00a0He and his partner Mo have even managed to persuade their best friend Polly to have their baby.\u00a0However, after numerous failed attempts to conceive, this proves to be more difficult than they first
\nenvisaged. Freddy\u2019s planned video installation also turns out to be rather more complicated than\u00a0he thought. And then, when the \u2018Bishop\u2019, their rather deranged neighbour, begins tormenting them
\nwith his serious chicanery, their hitherto carefree existence starts to go dangerously awry. A series\u00a0of surprising events bring their frustrations to a head and before long, Freddy and his friends begin
\nto lose their grip on reality.Sebasti\u00e0n Silva\u2019s savagely satirical film is an angry portrait of a group of\u00a0presumptuous and self-absorbed bohemians. The director himself plays the role of Freddy, infusing
\nhis performance with the complacency, doggedness, ignorance and egomania of a social circle which\u00a0is in the process of becoming estranged from their original visions and dreams.<\/p>\n

\"Nasty_Baby_b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Jury Statement:<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe Teddy jury awards its 2015 feature film prize to Nasty Baby, by Sebastian Silva. The jury wishes to highlight the film’s bold intention to present an urgent question of morality. Director Sebastian Silva confronts middle-class gay artist life in Brooklyn as it clashes with realities of class, race and gentrification. What starts as a film about a gay couple and their best friend trying to conceive a baby turns into a gruesome situation that symbolizes major divides that cut across the LGBT spectrum and across society. It’s a provocative film that sensitively portrays the queer American dream, and subtly implores all of us to dream beyond.<\/p>\n