Missing Cuban Actor Honored

Cuban actor Javier Nunez Florian, who starred in a film about defecting to the United States, and who went missing in real life while traveling to New York for the Tribeca Film Festival, has won the top acting award at the ceremony Thursday. Florian was last seen at the Miami airport with his costar, Anailin de la Rua de la Torre. The film, Una Noche, also won prizes for Best New Narrative Director and Best Cinematography. The top prize for Best Narrative Feature went to Canadian director Kim Nguyen's War Witch, about a young girl who is stolen from her African village and forced to become a child soldier.