"Pray the Devil Back to Hell" wins top doc honor at Tribeca
By Vishal Verma, Dated 3rd May 2008

"Pray the Devil Back to Hell," a documentary about the role women played in ending civil war in Liberia, was among the films honored at the seventh annual Tribeca Film Festival.

The awards were announced at a ceremony last week in New York. Last year's best documentary winner, "Taxi to the Dark Side," went on to win the Academy Award for documentary.

"Pray the Devil Back to Hell," directed by the American filmmaker Gini Reticker, is about how thousands of women helped turned the tide of violence in Liberia through sit-ins and other peaceful protests. After years of war that killed 250,000, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected president in 2005.

The winner of best narrative feature was "Let the Right One In," a Swedish film directed by Tomas Alfredson. A combination coming-of-age story and vampire flick, it was hailed by the jury for its "mesmerizing exploration of loneliness and alienation through masterful re-examination of the vampire myth."