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  • East Europe dominates Palm Springs Awards

    East Europe dominates Palm Springs Awards

    NEW Delhi: ‘Selma’ received the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature while ‘Keep On Keepin’ On’ received the Audience Award for Best Documentary feature, both sponsored by Mercedes Benz, at the 26th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.

     

    ‘Leviathan’ received the FIPRESCI Prize given by the International federation of film critics while Haluk Bilginer and Anne Dorval received the FIPRESCI Acting Prizes.

     

    ‘No One’s Child’ was awarded New Voices/New Visions Award; ‘Flowers’ got the Cine Latino Award; ‘Walking Under Water’ won the John Schlesinger Award and ‘Corn Island’ got the HP Bridging The Borders Award.

     

    The Festival held earlier screened 196 films from 65 countries, including 51 of the 83 foreign language entries for this year’s Academy Awards.

     

    Festival director Darryl Macdonald said, “Eastern European filmmakers – both emerging and established – have utterly dominated our juried awards this year: first time feature director Vuk Rsumovic from Serbia takes the New Visions New Voices prize for No One’s Child, the Bridging the Borders award goes to Georgian director George Ovashvili’s Corn Island plus a special jury prize to Kosovo’s Three Windows and a Hanging directed by Isa Qosja, and the Schlesinger award goes to Polish director Eliza Kubarska for her debut documentary Walking Under Water. The power of stories from this region is palpable and infectious.”

     

    The runner-up documentary film was ‘The Salt of the Earth’ (France). Popular documentary selections in alphabetical order included: ‘Back on Board: Greg Louganis’ (USA), ‘Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey’ (USA), ‘How I Got Over’ (USA), ‘Limited Partnership’ (USA), ‘The Breach’ (USA).

     

    The winner and runner-ups were picked on the basis of over 70,000 ballots cast by audience members during the Festival.  Both winners received the John Kennedy Statue (“The Entertainer”) specially designed for the Festival.

     

    The 2015 FIPRESCI jury members were Ella Taylor (film critic), Michael Oleszczyk (film critic and scholar) and Ernesto Diezmartínez Guzman (columnist and author).

  • Director from the Philippines bags top prize at Locarno, dedicates it to father

    Director from the Philippines bags top prize at Locarno, dedicates it to father

    NEW DELHI: Filipino director Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic ‘From What is Before Mula’ received the top prize at the 67th Locarno Film Festival.

     

    The 338-minute black-and-white film, about life in a rural village two years before the government declared martial law in 1972, won the Golden Leopard for best film. The award comes with a cash prize of $ 99,700 which will be shared equally between Diaz and his producer.

     

    The film, which has the Filipino title ‘Mula sa kung ano ang noon’, also picked up the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (IFFS) Don Quixote Prize.

     

    The film also won the top prize at the World Premiere Film Festival in Manila last month.

     

    Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Listen Up Philip’ won the Special Jury Prize, Portugal’s Pedro Costa won the Best Director Leopard for ‘Cavalo Dinheiro ‘and Brazil’s ‘August Winds’ received a special mention.

     

    The international competition jury was headed by Italy’s Gianfranco Rosi and also included Chinese director Diao Yi’nan, filmmaker Thomas Arslan, as well as actresses Alice Braga and Connie Nielson. Diaz was the president of last year’s international competition jury in Locarno.

     

    The two other Asian winners in this year’s festival were both in the Best First Feature section. ‘Songs from the North’, a documentary by the South Korean filmmaker Yoo Soon-mi won the Leopard for the Best First Feature.  France-based Japanese filmmaker Sawada Masa also received a special mention for ‘I, Kamikaze’.

  • PVR Director’s Rare label to release Manav Kaul’s Hansa on 28 December

    PVR Director’s Rare label to release Manav Kaul’s Hansa on 28 December

    MUMBAI: Having started his acting career with Daayen Ya Baayen, I Am, 1971 and Jajantaram Mamantaram, Manav Kaul is excited because his debut directorial film Hansa is all set to release in theatres on 28 December under the aegis of PVR Director‘s Rare label.

    Hansa revolves around two siblings Hansa and Cheeku who hail from the central Himalayas. Both are daunted by fears of their own; Hansa by the local bully and Cheeku by the lecherous landlord.

    In his directorial debut, Kaul focuses on land use, urban migration, resilience and the magic of childhood.

    The film won the Audience Choice Award and FIPRESCI International Critics‘ Prize at Osian‘s Cinefan film festival 2012