By Canadian Press

19-year-old director wins top award at Tribeca Film Festival

May 2, 2019 | 5:11 PM

NEW YORK — Nineteen-year-old filmmaker Phillip Youmans has won the top award at the Tribeca Film Festival.

“Burning Cane,” which Youmans finished as a 17-year-old graduating high school, on Thursday took the New York festival’s award for best U.S. narrative feature. Festival founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal presented Youmans with the award, chosen by a jury that hailed Youmans as “a voice that is searingly original.”

The film also took awards for best cinematography and best actor for Wendell Pierce. The “Wire” actor stars in the lyrical “Burning Cane” as a Louisiana preacher grieving the loss of his wife. Youmans is currently a freshman at New York University.

Tribeca also awarded best documentary to “Scheme Birds,” about a Scottish girl’s coming of age.

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