The Sony CineAlta Discovery Prize to be awarded to the best short or medium-length film in the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Sony has announced a new partnership with La Semaine de la Critique (Critics’ Week) for the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
The parallel section of the festival aims to discover new talent by showing first and second feature films from around the world, as well as a short film competition.
After the seven days of screenings, five awards are given out with the two main ones being:
• The Sony CineAlta Discovery Prize, for the best short or medium-length film in competition
• The Grand Prix Nespresso, for the best feature film in competition
Sony’s involvement will include a donation of €4,000 ($5,500) to the director of the winning film in the competition.
Remi Bonhomme, programme manager for La Semaine de la Critique, said: “La Semaine de la Critique cultivates a dynamic, daring, or even...
Sony has announced a new partnership with La Semaine de la Critique (Critics’ Week) for the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
The parallel section of the festival aims to discover new talent by showing first and second feature films from around the world, as well as a short film competition.
After the seven days of screenings, five awards are given out with the two main ones being:
• The Sony CineAlta Discovery Prize, for the best short or medium-length film in competition
• The Grand Prix Nespresso, for the best feature film in competition
Sony’s involvement will include a donation of €4,000 ($5,500) to the director of the winning film in the competition.
Remi Bonhomme, programme manager for La Semaine de la Critique, said: “La Semaine de la Critique cultivates a dynamic, daring, or even...
- 4/1/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave to open festival; director Peter Greenaway to receive Visionary Award.Scroll down for full line-up
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
- 10/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The curtain came down on the 66th Cannes Film Festival 2013 yesterday. The festival and its two sidebars- International Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight-announced their awards. Here is a compilation of all the awards presented at the festival:
Awards for the main competition
Palme d’Or
Blue is the Warmest Colour (La Vie D’Adele Chapitre 1 & 2) by Abdellatif Kechiche
Grand Prix
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Director
Amat Escalante for Heli
Jury prize
Hirokazu Kore-eda for Like Father, Like Son
Best Screenplay
Jia Zhang-ke for A Touch of Sin
Best Actress
Berenice Bejo in The Past (Le Passe) by Asghar Farhadi
Best Actor
Bruce Dern in Nebraska by Alexander Payne
Camera d’Or (Best First Feature)
Ilo Ilo by Anthony Chen (presented in Directors’ Fortnight)
Palme d’Or Court Metrage (Short Film)
Safe by Moon Byoung-gon
Special Mention
Whale Valley (Hvalfjordur) by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson...
Awards for the main competition
Palme d’Or
Blue is the Warmest Colour (La Vie D’Adele Chapitre 1 & 2) by Abdellatif Kechiche
Grand Prix
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Director
Amat Escalante for Heli
Jury prize
Hirokazu Kore-eda for Like Father, Like Son
Best Screenplay
Jia Zhang-ke for A Touch of Sin
Best Actress
Berenice Bejo in The Past (Le Passe) by Asghar Farhadi
Best Actor
Bruce Dern in Nebraska by Alexander Payne
Camera d’Or (Best First Feature)
Ilo Ilo by Anthony Chen (presented in Directors’ Fortnight)
Palme d’Or Court Metrage (Short Film)
Safe by Moon Byoung-gon
Special Mention
Whale Valley (Hvalfjordur) by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson...
- 5/27/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
In Competition
Feature Films
Palme d'Or – Blue is the Warmest Color, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Grand Prix – Inside Llewyn Davis, directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Jury Prize – Like Father, Like Son, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Best Director – Amat Escalante, Heli
Best Screenplay – Jia Zhangke, A Touch of Sin
Best Actress – Bérénice Bejo, The Past
Best Actor – Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Check out our Notebook coverage of The Past, Like Father Like Son, A Touch of Sin (x2), and Inside Llewyn Davis.
Short Films
Palme d'Or (Short Film) – Safe, directed by Moon Byoung-gon
Special Distinction – Whale Valley, directed by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson; 37°4 S, directed by Adriano Valerio
Un Certain Regard
Prize of Un Certain Regard – The Missing Picture, directed by Rithy Panh
Jury Prize – Omar, directed by Hany Abu-Assad
Directing Prize – Alain Guiraudie, Stranger By the Lake
A Certain Talent Prize - The cast of La jaula de oro
Avenir Prize - Fruitvale Station,...
Feature Films
Palme d'Or – Blue is the Warmest Color, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Grand Prix – Inside Llewyn Davis, directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Jury Prize – Like Father, Like Son, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Best Director – Amat Escalante, Heli
Best Screenplay – Jia Zhangke, A Touch of Sin
Best Actress – Bérénice Bejo, The Past
Best Actor – Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Check out our Notebook coverage of The Past, Like Father Like Son, A Touch of Sin (x2), and Inside Llewyn Davis.
Short Films
Palme d'Or (Short Film) – Safe, directed by Moon Byoung-gon
Special Distinction – Whale Valley, directed by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson; 37°4 S, directed by Adriano Valerio
Un Certain Regard
Prize of Un Certain Regard – The Missing Picture, directed by Rithy Panh
Jury Prize – Omar, directed by Hany Abu-Assad
Directing Prize – Alain Guiraudie, Stranger By the Lake
A Certain Talent Prize - The cast of La jaula de oro
Avenir Prize - Fruitvale Station,...
- 5/26/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Italian film Salvo directed by Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza won both the major awards at 52nd Cannes Critics’ Week: the Grand Jury prize as well as the France 4 Visionary award.
The Dismantlement (Le Démantèlement) by Sébastien Pilote (Canada) won the Sacd award for Best Screenplay.
German film Come and Play by Daria Belova won the Discovery Award in the short film competition.
Swedish film Pleasure by Ninja Thyberg won the Canal+ Award.
Indian feature Dabba (Lunchbox) by Ritesh Batra was in competition in the feature film category. Dabba won Grand Rail d’Or, which is an independent award given by railway worker film enthusiasts.
Batra’s Dabba and Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout are also competing for Camera d’Or given to the best debut film at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Dismantlement (Le Démantèlement) by Sébastien Pilote (Canada) won the Sacd award for Best Screenplay.
German film Come and Play by Daria Belova won the Discovery Award in the short film competition.
Swedish film Pleasure by Ninja Thyberg won the Canal+ Award.
Indian feature Dabba (Lunchbox) by Ritesh Batra was in competition in the feature film category. Dabba won Grand Rail d’Or, which is an independent award given by railway worker film enthusiasts.
Batra’s Dabba and Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout are also competing for Camera d’Or given to the best debut film at the Cannes Film Festival.
- 5/24/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza's "Salvo" won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival's 52nd Critics’ Week. The film -- about a romantic relationship between a hitman and the sister of someone he's murdered -- took both the Grand Prix and the France 4 Revelation Prize. Other major winners included Daria Belova's "Come and Play," which won best short film, Sebastien Pilote's "Le Demantlement," which won best screenplay. The program's jury was led by Portugese director Miguel Gomes, and also included Dennis Lim, program director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Neil Young, co-director of the International Film Festival Bradford, and journalists Alin Tasciyan and Alex Vicente.
- 5/23/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
As the Cannes Film Festival begins to wind down tomorrow towards its final weekend and the main awards ceremony on Sunday some of the prizes already have been announced.
An engrossing Italian film noir by debut film-makers Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza tonight (23 May), Salvo has won the 10,000 euros Nespresso Grand Prize.
The film, part of Critics’ Week, also won the France 4 Visionary Award, worth 4000 euros.
The Discovery prize for short film, which gives 8000 euros towards the winner's first feature, was awarded to Come And Play by Daria Belova.
The Canal+ short film award was bestowed on Pleasure by Ninja Thyberg.
Society of Authors, Directors and Composers Award for best screenplay and a 4000 euros prize was given to Le Demantlement by Sebastien Pilote.
Critics’ Week has a reputation for focusing on new talent and boasts an internationally diverse line-up but the organisers are hampered by a...
An engrossing Italian film noir by debut film-makers Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza tonight (23 May), Salvo has won the 10,000 euros Nespresso Grand Prize.
The film, part of Critics’ Week, also won the France 4 Visionary Award, worth 4000 euros.
The Discovery prize for short film, which gives 8000 euros towards the winner's first feature, was awarded to Come And Play by Daria Belova.
The Canal+ short film award was bestowed on Pleasure by Ninja Thyberg.
Society of Authors, Directors and Composers Award for best screenplay and a 4000 euros prize was given to Le Demantlement by Sebastien Pilote.
Critics’ Week has a reputation for focusing on new talent and boasts an internationally diverse line-up but the organisers are hampered by a...
- 5/22/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Germany has a large number of films in Cannes this year both as coproducer and single producer. Three German co-productions are in the competition including Heli by Amat Escalante (Mexico/ Germany/ France/ Netherlands), the adaptation of the Heinrich von Kleist novella Michael Kohlhaas by Arnaud des Pallières (France, Germany) and Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (Germany, U.K., France, Cyprus), which has always been supported by the German producer Karl Baumgartner of Pandora. U.S. gets bragging rights but has no actual credit in the film.
Screening in Un Certain Regard are Tore Tanzt, the debut feature film of German director Katrin Gebbe ♀ which is eligible for the Camera d'Or as are first films from all sections, the co-productions My Sweet Pepper Land by Hiner Saleem (France, Germany) and Bastards by Claire Denis (France, Germany).
A digitally remastered version of Fedora by Billy Wilder will be shown in Cannes Classics along with four more German co-productions.
The German short Come And Play by Daria Belova ♀ is in Semaine de la Critique which will also present the German co-production The Lunchbox by Ritesh Batra (India, Deutschland, France).
Directors Fortnight is screening The Congress by director Ari Folmann (Israel, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, France, Belgium).
The debut feature Summer Outside by Friederike Jehn (Germany, Switzerland) will be shown in Ecrans Juniors / Cannes Cinephiles which is curated by Cannes Cinema during the festival. The Strange Little Cat by Ramon Zürcher (Dffb) will be presented in the L'Acid-series, a special program by the Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion during the festival.
German Films will be presenting a total of 30 New German Films to professional visitors at Cannes' Marché du Film from 17 to 22 May. Furthermore, this will be the 13th time that German Films joins forces with Focus Germany, the amalgamation of the seven major regional film funds, to run the German Pavilion in the International Village of the Marché du Film. The German Pavilion has been a popular platform for many years for people to get know one another personally and to foster an exchange between the accredited festival delegates from the German and international film industries in Cannes.
Screening in Un Certain Regard are Tore Tanzt, the debut feature film of German director Katrin Gebbe ♀ which is eligible for the Camera d'Or as are first films from all sections, the co-productions My Sweet Pepper Land by Hiner Saleem (France, Germany) and Bastards by Claire Denis (France, Germany).
A digitally remastered version of Fedora by Billy Wilder will be shown in Cannes Classics along with four more German co-productions.
The German short Come And Play by Daria Belova ♀ is in Semaine de la Critique which will also present the German co-production The Lunchbox by Ritesh Batra (India, Deutschland, France).
Directors Fortnight is screening The Congress by director Ari Folmann (Israel, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, France, Belgium).
The debut feature Summer Outside by Friederike Jehn (Germany, Switzerland) will be shown in Ecrans Juniors / Cannes Cinephiles which is curated by Cannes Cinema during the festival. The Strange Little Cat by Ramon Zürcher (Dffb) will be presented in the L'Acid-series, a special program by the Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion during the festival.
German Films will be presenting a total of 30 New German Films to professional visitors at Cannes' Marché du Film from 17 to 22 May. Furthermore, this will be the 13th time that German Films joins forces with Focus Germany, the amalgamation of the seven major regional film funds, to run the German Pavilion in the International Village of the Marché du Film. The German Pavilion has been a popular platform for many years for people to get know one another personally and to foster an exchange between the accredited festival delegates from the German and international film industries in Cannes.
- 5/13/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
As hard it is to predict, the sidebar section all the way at the other end of the Croisette contains a trio of titles that were tipped to show up at the fest by Cannes insiders (we had Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza’s Salvo (here), David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (here), Katell Quillévéré Suzanne – (here) in our predictions list) and out of the 1200 films submitted, six first films and four sophomore films were selected by Artistic Director Charles Tesson and his committee. The closing night film will be announced a little bit later. Here’s the complete selection below:
Opening film
Suzanne, Katell Quillévéré (France)
Special Screenings
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, David Lowery (USA)
You and the Night, Yann Gonzalez (France)
Feature films competition
Salvo Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza (Italy/France)
The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra (India/France/Germany)
For Those in Peril, Paul Wright (UK)
The Dismantlement,...
Opening film
Suzanne, Katell Quillévéré (France)
Special Screenings
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, David Lowery (USA)
You and the Night, Yann Gonzalez (France)
Feature films competition
Salvo Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza (Italy/France)
The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra (India/France/Germany)
For Those in Peril, Paul Wright (UK)
The Dismantlement,...
- 4/22/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
I have been adding titles that will play the 2013 Cannes Film Festival to the database periodically since they were first announced last week as well as updating the complete line-up as more and more titles have been added. Last week it was announced Ari Folman's The Congress would serve as the opening night film for the Directors' Fortnight selection and today the fest organizers announced the complete Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique) line-up, which will open on May 16 with Katell Quillevere's Suzanne and a selection largely made up of names I'm not personally familiar with. The most notable name is Sundance stand-out Ain't Them Bodies Saints from director David Lowery. Personally I expected this film to be among the Un Certain Regard selection after the love it received at Sundance, but its inclusion is a welcome one as Rooney Mara's performance is one that's been much talked...
- 4/22/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
This morning the official 2013 Cannes Film Festival line-up was announced from Paris, France. The committee saw 1,858 films submitted this year and while additional titles will continue to be announced, this morning we got the full Competition and Un Certain Regard lineup and it looks amazing so far. Among the films announced In Competition so far, many were expected including Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra, Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur, Asghar Farhadi's The Past and Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis. Additionally James Gray's once titled Lowlife starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner will play, but under the name The Immigrant and Takashi Miike's cop thriller Wara No Tate (Straw Shield) has also made the competition list. However, the biggest "surprise" is the inclusion of Alexander Payne's black-and-white film Nebraska, which is sure to be a big attention getter,...
- 4/18/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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