The Rotterdam Cinemart is as good as ever with projects from all over the world, meetings with producers, distributors, sales agents, financiers, and film festival programmers. A major focus of Rotterdam Film Festival this year is on Turkish films and Pandora's Box and Wrong Rosary are the most acclaimed. I met the programmer Ludmila Cvikova, who organized this Turkish sidebar, and I met Christine Dolhofer, whose six year old festival Crossing Europe also programmed a Turkish focus, Anke Leweke, journalist and Berlinale consultant, Sandra den Hamer, former Rotterdam director and now director of the Netherlands Film Museum, Claudia Landsberger, President of European Film Promotion, Isabelle Glachant, the producer of Cinemart project Executioner's Garden by Chinese director Zhang Yuan, Beatrice Neumann, new acquisitions manager for The Works where Carl Clifton is joining as GM, and Visit Films straight from Sundance where they had 3 films, Margarita Eliopoulou and Athena the Thessaloniki Int'l Film Festival's market, Jerome Paillard, head of the Cannes Market and many others.
- 1/26/2009
- Sydney's Buzz
San Sebastian, Spain -- Yesim Ustaoglu's "Pandora's Box" walked away with the Golden Shell in a ceremony Saturday night that sprinkled prizes broadly and wrapped the 56th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Michael Winterbottom took the best director honor for "Genova," starring Colin Firth, while Samira Makhmalbaf's Iranian-French "Two-Legged Horse" won the special jury prize.
Cao Baoping's "The Equation of Love and Death" won the coveted 90,000-euro Altadis-New Directors Prize, to be split between the director and the Spanish distributor of the film.
"Pandora's Box" protagonist Tsilla Chelton shared the best actress award with Melissa Leo for her role in "Frozen River," while Oscar Martinez won the actor award for his role as a writer struggling with his children's growing independence in "Empty Nest."
"Nest," directed by Daniel Burman, also picked up the prize for Hugo Colace's cinematography, while Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern won the best screenplay prize for "Louise-Michel.
Michael Winterbottom took the best director honor for "Genova," starring Colin Firth, while Samira Makhmalbaf's Iranian-French "Two-Legged Horse" won the special jury prize.
Cao Baoping's "The Equation of Love and Death" won the coveted 90,000-euro Altadis-New Directors Prize, to be split between the director and the Spanish distributor of the film.
"Pandora's Box" protagonist Tsilla Chelton shared the best actress award with Melissa Leo for her role in "Frozen River," while Oscar Martinez won the actor award for his role as a writer struggling with his children's growing independence in "Empty Nest."
"Nest," directed by Daniel Burman, also picked up the prize for Hugo Colace's cinematography, while Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern won the best screenplay prize for "Louise-Michel.
- 9/28/2008
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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