• Variety lists off the festival's big winners -- puppy love and blood lust, it seems, is a winning combination.

• Tennessee director Aaron Woodley tells Variety's Micheal Jones that the film's star, Mariah Carey, was his second choice after Janet Jackson.

• Variety's John Andersons says the documentary I Am Because We Are is little more than a public service announcement starring Madonna about the horrors of AIDS .

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