The paper doesn't deliver much in the way of trenchant reporting or imaginative feature writing.
The Sutherland award for the director of the most original and imaginative feature debut screened at the festival went to Argentinian Pablo Giorgelli for his road movie Las Acacias.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, a first feature film, was made by the 30-year-old American director and composer Benh Zeitlin, who won the Sutherland award for the most imaginative feature debut.
Marsh is best known for his imaginative feature-length documentaries, Man on Wire, which won an Oscar in 2009, and Project Nim, as well as his TV film Red Riding: 1980.
I can hardly imagine, after seeing his extraordinarily imaginative first feature, the frustrations and involuted, ingrown, or just plain stifled inventions that have been working him over from within for the past half century.
They're poetic songs with imaginative shifts, featuring close-miked vocals and spooky reverbed guitars.
Within this canonical conceit, Galchen crafted unusually imaginative stories featuring plot elements such as furniture that walks out on its owner and a Chinese takeout order gone awry.
Looking as if it were devised on acid and executed on mushrooms, this imaginative debut feature from the Seattle artist and filmmaker David Russo finds meaning in cleaning and life in dead ends.
His debut feature, The Tribe, set in a school for deaf adolescents, won multiple awards, including the Critics' Week grand prize at Cannes and the Sutherland trophy for "most original and imaginative first feature" at the London film festival.
However, as BBC News Online reports, the criteria have changed slightly in recent years and the Sutherland trophy is now awarded to the maker of what is seen as the most "original and imaginative" first feature film screened during the festival.
