Update: Audience award winner revealed; Good Manners, Winter Brothers also among winners.
Documentary filmmaker Wang Bing became the fifth director from China in Locarno’s seven-decade history to win the top honour of the Golden Leopard at this year’s edition.
Mrs. Fang, which is the first documentray ever to win the festival’s top prize, follows the last days of a 67-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in southern China.
Previous Golden Leopard winners from China were Hongqui Li with Winter Vacation in 2010 and Xiaolu Guo with She, a Chinese a year before, as well as Shuo Wang with Father in 2000 and Yue Lü with Mr Zhao in 1998.
The decision by the international competition jury, headed by director Olivier Assayas, reflects a trend at international festivals of recent years for documentaries beating out competition from fiction productions.
While the special jury prize went to the Brazilian writing and directing team Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s Good Manners about...
Documentary filmmaker Wang Bing became the fifth director from China in Locarno’s seven-decade history to win the top honour of the Golden Leopard at this year’s edition.
Mrs. Fang, which is the first documentray ever to win the festival’s top prize, follows the last days of a 67-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in southern China.
Previous Golden Leopard winners from China were Hongqui Li with Winter Vacation in 2010 and Xiaolu Guo with She, a Chinese a year before, as well as Shuo Wang with Father in 2000 and Yue Lü with Mr Zhao in 1998.
The decision by the international competition jury, headed by director Olivier Assayas, reflects a trend at international festivals of recent years for documentaries beating out competition from fiction productions.
While the special jury prize went to the Brazilian writing and directing team Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s Good Manners about...
- 8/12/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Ben & Joshua Safdie's Good TimeThe lineup for the 2017 festival has been revealed, including new films by Wang Bing, Radu Jude, Raúl Ruiz and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes dedicated to Jean-Marie Straub, Jacques Tourneur and much more.Piazza GRANDEAmori che non sonno stare al mondo (Francesca Comencini, Italy)Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, USA)Chien (Samuel Benchetrit, France/Belgium)Demain et tous les autres jours (Noémie Lvovsky, France)Drei Zinnen (Jan Zabeil, Germany/Italy)Good Time (Ben & Joshua Safdie, USA)Gotthard - One Life, One Soul (Kevin Merz, Switzerland)I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, USA)Iceman (Felix Randau, Germany/Italy/Austria)Laissez bronzer les cadavres (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Belgium/France)Lola Pater (Nadir Moknèche, France/Belgium)Sicilia! (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy/France/Germany)Sparring (Samuel Jouy, France)The Big Sick (Michael Showalter, USA)The Song of Scorpions (Anup Singh, Switzerland/France/Singapore)What Happed to Monday (Tommy Wirkola,...
- 7/12/2017
- MUBI
Earlier this month at the 2014 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the Brazilian feature "The Boy and the World" earned the top honors from both the jury and the audience. Cineuropa recently published a piece on this film and the festival. We have reprinted the article below or you can see the original version Here
Annecy crowns Brazilian film The Boy and the World
by Fabien Lemercier
The Cristal for a Feature Film and the Audience Award at the 38th Annecy International Animated Film Festival (see the article ) have gone to Brazilian film "The Boy and the World" (O menino e o mundo), by Alê Abreu, which will be distributed in France on 8 October by Les Films du Préau. The Jury Award was given to the American feature "Cheatin'" , and the Jury Distinction was bestowed upon the Japanese title "Giovanni no Shima."
European production caught up when it came to the short-film competition, which gave the top prize to "Man on the Chair" by Dahee Jeong, a co-production between France (Sacrebleu Productions) and South Korea. The Jury Award was given to the German-Swiss short "Patch" by Gerd Gockell, while the Franco-Swiss co-production "Hasta Santiago" by Mauro Carraro won the Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film and the Sacem Award for Original Music. Lastly, the jury awarded two Distinctions, including to La testa tra le nuvole by Italy’s Roberto Catani. For its part, the audience gave its prize to "La petite casserole d'Anatole" by French director Eric Montchaud Also of note in the graduation-film competition was the triumph of "The Bigger Picture" by Daisy Jacobs ( Nfts - National Film and Television School).
The Cnc made good use of the Mifa (International Animation Film Market) to unveil a study on French animation that, among other things, particularly confirmed the genre’s international potential. It highlighted the fact that 13 French animated films have taken over one million admissions abroad over the last decade; during this period, French productions in the animated genre recorded 54.7% of their admissions outside the country’s borders. At the French box office, animation is also still a safe bet (representing 5% of the previously unreleased films that came out in 2013 and 14.4% of takings).
On the other hand, it’s orange alert on the production side of things, with a mere six French animated features approved in 2013 (as against 12 in 2012). The French animation producers’ union, Syndicat des producteurs français d’animation, particularly underlined the fall in the investment made by TV channels and would like to see, among other things, an increase in the tax credit in order to give a break to a genre that is more expensive to produce than live-action fiction (with an average budget of €11.97 million for a French animated feature, as against €5.23 million for a French production in all genres combined). Lastly, the inclusion of a reduced rate of €4 for the under-14s by the country’s movie theatres, which has been in place since the start of 2014 (see news), is still the subject of heated debate, with certain distributors maintaining that the reduced takings are not offset by the increase in attendance levels for that age group, which could, in the future, have an impact on the total number of commitments they make to French animation productions. Watch this space...
Annecy crowns Brazilian film The Boy and the World
by Fabien Lemercier
The Cristal for a Feature Film and the Audience Award at the 38th Annecy International Animated Film Festival (see the article ) have gone to Brazilian film "The Boy and the World" (O menino e o mundo), by Alê Abreu, which will be distributed in France on 8 October by Les Films du Préau. The Jury Award was given to the American feature "Cheatin'" , and the Jury Distinction was bestowed upon the Japanese title "Giovanni no Shima."
European production caught up when it came to the short-film competition, which gave the top prize to "Man on the Chair" by Dahee Jeong, a co-production between France (Sacrebleu Productions) and South Korea. The Jury Award was given to the German-Swiss short "Patch" by Gerd Gockell, while the Franco-Swiss co-production "Hasta Santiago" by Mauro Carraro won the Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film and the Sacem Award for Original Music. Lastly, the jury awarded two Distinctions, including to La testa tra le nuvole by Italy’s Roberto Catani. For its part, the audience gave its prize to "La petite casserole d'Anatole" by French director Eric Montchaud Also of note in the graduation-film competition was the triumph of "The Bigger Picture" by Daisy Jacobs ( Nfts - National Film and Television School).
The Cnc made good use of the Mifa (International Animation Film Market) to unveil a study on French animation that, among other things, particularly confirmed the genre’s international potential. It highlighted the fact that 13 French animated films have taken over one million admissions abroad over the last decade; during this period, French productions in the animated genre recorded 54.7% of their admissions outside the country’s borders. At the French box office, animation is also still a safe bet (representing 5% of the previously unreleased films that came out in 2013 and 14.4% of takings).
On the other hand, it’s orange alert on the production side of things, with a mere six French animated features approved in 2013 (as against 12 in 2012). The French animation producers’ union, Syndicat des producteurs français d’animation, particularly underlined the fall in the investment made by TV channels and would like to see, among other things, an increase in the tax credit in order to give a break to a genre that is more expensive to produce than live-action fiction (with an average budget of €11.97 million for a French animated feature, as against €5.23 million for a French production in all genres combined). Lastly, the inclusion of a reduced rate of €4 for the under-14s by the country’s movie theatres, which has been in place since the start of 2014 (see news), is still the subject of heated debate, with certain distributors maintaining that the reduced takings are not offset by the increase in attendance levels for that age group, which could, in the future, have an impact on the total number of commitments they make to French animation productions. Watch this space...
- 6/25/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
A Brazilian feature wins at the animation festival for the second consecutive year; market reports record high.Scroll down for full list of winners
Brazilian director Ale Abreu’s The Boy and the World, about a child who heads to the city in search of his father, has won both the Crystal Award and Audience Award for the best feature-length film at the 38th edition of the Annecy International Animation Festival.
“The rising strength of Brazilian animation is confirmed. The Boy and The World’s double honours signal yet again the vitality of this cinematography,” said the festival’s artistic director, Marcel Jean.
It is the second year in a row that a Brazilian film has won the top prize. Last year, Luiz Bolognesi’s Rio 2096, capturing key periods in Brazil’s history though a man who lives for 600 years, clinched the Crystal for best feature.
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Brazilian director Ale Abreu’s The Boy and the World, about a child who heads to the city in search of his father, has won both the Crystal Award and Audience Award for the best feature-length film at the 38th edition of the Annecy International Animation Festival.
“The rising strength of Brazilian animation is confirmed. The Boy and The World’s double honours signal yet again the vitality of this cinematography,” said the festival’s artistic director, Marcel Jean.
It is the second year in a row that a Brazilian film has won the top prize. Last year, Luiz Bolognesi’s Rio 2096, capturing key periods in Brazil’s history though a man who lives for 600 years, clinched the Crystal for best feature.
In other awards, the [link=tt...
- 6/14/2014
- ScreenDaily
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