‘Identifying Features’ by Mexican filmmaker Fernanda Valadez wins top prize.
Mexican director Fernanda Valadez’s drama Identifying Features has won the top prize for best feature at the 2020 Zurich Film Festival, which awarded all its top Golden Eye honours to female directors.
Identifying Features is about a woman who travels across Mexico in search of her son, who is presumed dead after trying to cross the border, and teams with a recently deported young man.
The film premiered at Sundance where it won an audience award and screenplay prize, and more recently screened at San Sebastian, where it picked up the Horizons award.
Mexican director Fernanda Valadez’s drama Identifying Features has won the top prize for best feature at the 2020 Zurich Film Festival, which awarded all its top Golden Eye honours to female directors.
Identifying Features is about a woman who travels across Mexico in search of her son, who is presumed dead after trying to cross the border, and teams with a recently deported young man.
The film premiered at Sundance where it won an audience award and screenplay prize, and more recently screened at San Sebastian, where it picked up the Horizons award.
- 10/5/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Miranda July’s Sundance title “Kajillionaire,” featuring Evan Rachel Wood and Debra Winger, and Josephine Decker’s Sundance winner “Shirley,” starring Elisabeth Moss, are amongst the first 10 galas announced by the Zurich Film Festival on Friday.
The galas also include Emmanuel Courcol’s Cannes official selection “The Big Hit,” starring Kad Merad (“Baron Noir”); Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw’s Sundance title “The Truffle Hunters”; and Uberto Pasolini’s “Nowhere Special,” that is up for a Horizons award at Venice.
There are a pair of homegrown world premieres – “Zurcher Tagebuch,” where Zurich director Stefan Haupt takes the audience through the changes in his hometown since 1961; and Rolf Lyssy’s “Eden für jeden,” a feel-good comedy that shows the allotment garden as a mirror of multicultural Switzerland.
Further titles include Ryan White’s docu-thriller “Assassins”; Ariel Winograd’s “The Heist of the Century”; and Michel Franco’s “New Order.”
The festival states that “despite the pandemic,...
The galas also include Emmanuel Courcol’s Cannes official selection “The Big Hit,” starring Kad Merad (“Baron Noir”); Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw’s Sundance title “The Truffle Hunters”; and Uberto Pasolini’s “Nowhere Special,” that is up for a Horizons award at Venice.
There are a pair of homegrown world premieres – “Zurcher Tagebuch,” where Zurich director Stefan Haupt takes the audience through the changes in his hometown since 1961; and Rolf Lyssy’s “Eden für jeden,” a feel-good comedy that shows the allotment garden as a mirror of multicultural Switzerland.
Further titles include Ryan White’s docu-thriller “Assassins”; Ariel Winograd’s “The Heist of the Century”; and Michel Franco’s “New Order.”
The festival states that “despite the pandemic,...
- 8/14/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Two world premiere and ‘Shirley’, starring Elisabeth Moss, among first 10 titles.
The Zurich Film Festival, which is pushing ahead as a physical event from September 24 to October 4, has revealed the first 10 titles in its gala section.
They include US drama Shirley, starring Elisabeth Moss, which debuted at Sundance and saw director Josephine Decker win a special jury award.
The section will also include the world premiere of Zürcher Tagebuch, a documentary essay from Zurich director Stefan Haupt, who won the Berlinale’s Panorama audience award in 2014 with The Circle. His latest film explores the changes to his native Zurich since...
The Zurich Film Festival, which is pushing ahead as a physical event from September 24 to October 4, has revealed the first 10 titles in its gala section.
They include US drama Shirley, starring Elisabeth Moss, which debuted at Sundance and saw director Josephine Decker win a special jury award.
The section will also include the world premiere of Zürcher Tagebuch, a documentary essay from Zurich director Stefan Haupt, who won the Berlinale’s Panorama audience award in 2014 with The Circle. His latest film explores the changes to his native Zurich since...
- 8/14/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Films include Samir’s Baghdad In My Shadow and Bettina Oberli’s The Wind Turns.
International co-productions garnered the lion’s share of the production support paid out by Switzerland’s new incentive scheme Film Investment Refund Switzerland (Pics) in its first year of operations.
Speaking during this week’s Locarno Festival (which runs 2 - 12 August), federal councilor Alain Berset, head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, revealed that 53% of the $6.2m (CHF6m) allocated in support between July 2016 and June 2017 had gone to nine international co-productions with Switzerland.
The co-productions supported included:
Bettina Oberli’s first French-language feature film The Wind Turns, produced by Rita Productions with France’s Silex Films and Belgium’s Versus Production (co-producer of Locarno Festival Piazza Grande film Lola Pater)Samir’s London-set Baghdad In My Shadow (pictured), produced by Dschoint Ventschr with Germany’s Coin Film and the UK’s Ipso Facto Productions - with Filmcoopi and Nfp handling...
International co-productions garnered the lion’s share of the production support paid out by Switzerland’s new incentive scheme Film Investment Refund Switzerland (Pics) in its first year of operations.
Speaking during this week’s Locarno Festival (which runs 2 - 12 August), federal councilor Alain Berset, head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, revealed that 53% of the $6.2m (CHF6m) allocated in support between July 2016 and June 2017 had gone to nine international co-productions with Switzerland.
The co-productions supported included:
Bettina Oberli’s first French-language feature film The Wind Turns, produced by Rita Productions with France’s Silex Films and Belgium’s Versus Production (co-producer of Locarno Festival Piazza Grande film Lola Pater)Samir’s London-set Baghdad In My Shadow (pictured), produced by Dschoint Ventschr with Germany’s Coin Film and the UK’s Ipso Facto Productions - with Filmcoopi and Nfp handling...
- 8/4/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
French-born pianist and composer Laurant Courbier has won the second International Film Music Competition at the Zurich Film Festival.
Courbier received the Golden Eye prize for best international film music of 2013. The award comes with a prize of $11,000 (CHF10,000).
The other finalists were Aaron Kenny (Australia), Felipe Senna (Brazil), Jan Torkewitz (Germany) and Nathan Stornetta (Switzerland).
Entrants had written a score for Matthew Savage’s short film Reign of Death.
Savage was one the jurors, alongside singer and actor Carlos Leal, band leader Pepe Lienhard, filmmaker Rolf Lyssy, composer and musician Peter Scherer and composer Peter Thomas.
The award ceremony was part of a film music concert in Zurich.
The competition is a collaboration between the Zurich Film Festival and the Forum Filmmusik.
Courbier received the Golden Eye prize for best international film music of 2013. The award comes with a prize of $11,000 (CHF10,000).
The other finalists were Aaron Kenny (Australia), Felipe Senna (Brazil), Jan Torkewitz (Germany) and Nathan Stornetta (Switzerland).
Entrants had written a score for Matthew Savage’s short film Reign of Death.
Savage was one the jurors, alongside singer and actor Carlos Leal, band leader Pepe Lienhard, filmmaker Rolf Lyssy, composer and musician Peter Scherer and composer Peter Thomas.
The award ceremony was part of a film music concert in Zurich.
The competition is a collaboration between the Zurich Film Festival and the Forum Filmmusik.
- 9/28/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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