Attendance up 22%; festival director Karl Spoerri talks about Zurich’s potential as a film finance hub.
The Zurich Film Festival’s ninth edition has given its Golden Eye for best international film to The Golden Cage (La Jaula De Oro) from Mexico’s Diego Quemada-Diez. The jury gave a special mention to actor Michael B Jordan in Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station.
The International Documentary Film winner was Danish director Kaspar Astrup Schroeder’s Rent A Family Inc. (Lej En Familie A/S). A special mention went to Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq’s These Birds Walk from Pakistan.
The German-language competition awards went to Frauke Finsterwalder’s German feature Finsterworld and Anna Thommen’s Swiss documentary Neuland. A special mention went to Die Frau Die Sich Traut by Marc Rensing for feature and to Sabine Lidl’s Nan Goldin – I Remember Your Face for documentary.
Each of the awards comes with a $22,050 (CHF20,000) cash prize and...
The Zurich Film Festival’s ninth edition has given its Golden Eye for best international film to The Golden Cage (La Jaula De Oro) from Mexico’s Diego Quemada-Diez. The jury gave a special mention to actor Michael B Jordan in Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station.
The International Documentary Film winner was Danish director Kaspar Astrup Schroeder’s Rent A Family Inc. (Lej En Familie A/S). A special mention went to Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq’s These Birds Walk from Pakistan.
The German-language competition awards went to Frauke Finsterwalder’s German feature Finsterworld and Anna Thommen’s Swiss documentary Neuland. A special mention went to Die Frau Die Sich Traut by Marc Rensing for feature and to Sabine Lidl’s Nan Goldin – I Remember Your Face for documentary.
Each of the awards comes with a $22,050 (CHF20,000) cash prize and...
- 10/6/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
European Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou also talks about future funding for Locarno festival.
Official negotiations between Switzerland and the European Union (EU) on membership of the future Creative Europe programme are likely to begin in a matter of weeks.
Speaking to ScreenDaily at Ascona’s exclusive hideaway Castello Del Sole during this year’s Locarno Film Festival, European Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou revealed that she had an informal talk with Federal Councillor and Interior Minister Alain Berset about extending Switzerland’s membership of the ccurrent Media 2007 into the new framework programme.
“He personally said that he wants Switzerland to participate in both strands of Creative Europe for Media and Culture,” she reported. “There are some difficulties which I understand because they need the approval of all of the Cantons for the Culture part of it, so there may be some delays. But, for the Media strand, we can start immediately in September to get the mandate from the European...
Official negotiations between Switzerland and the European Union (EU) on membership of the future Creative Europe programme are likely to begin in a matter of weeks.
Speaking to ScreenDaily at Ascona’s exclusive hideaway Castello Del Sole during this year’s Locarno Film Festival, European Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou revealed that she had an informal talk with Federal Councillor and Interior Minister Alain Berset about extending Switzerland’s membership of the ccurrent Media 2007 into the new framework programme.
“He personally said that he wants Switzerland to participate in both strands of Creative Europe for Media and Culture,” she reported. “There are some difficulties which I understand because they need the approval of all of the Cantons for the Culture part of it, so there may be some delays. But, for the Media strand, we can start immediately in September to get the mandate from the European...
- 8/12/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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