Women Win Majority of Awards at Provincetown Film Fest: Coixet, Green, Bianco and More

Women directors won big at this year's Provincetown International Film Festival, taking home five of the eight prizes awarded.  Isabel Coixet's "Learning to Drive" landed the HBO Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature. The film stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a writer in New York struggling to cope with the fact that her husband leaves her for a much younger woman after giving "adultery a spin." When she is finally forced to learn how to drive -- her ex used to do all the driving -- Wendy meets Sikh cab driver Darwan (Ben Kingsley), who is willing to teach her how. Coixet described the film to Women and Hollywood as "a sweet and sour comedy...

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