A pair of sections that we’ve been covering almost since its inception, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced their selections for the New Auteurs and American Independents line-ups and we’ve got a noteworthy, eyebrow-raising sampling of award-winning items from the Cannes played hellish immigration drama Mediterranea from Jonas Carpignano to Sundance (Josh Mond’s James White) to SXSW (Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha) winners. Since Park City days, our Nicholas Bell has reviewed a good chunk of these titles, but we’ll still likely have a couple of more reviews once the festival begins. Here are the selections and jury members.
New Auteurs Selections (11 Titles)
From Afar – When a middle-aged man is assaulted and robbed by a young criminal, an unlikely relationship develops. Dir Lorenzo Vigas. Scr Lorenzo Vigas. Cast Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva. Venezuela/Mexico. U.S. Premiere
Disorder – Matthias Schoenaerts plays an ex-soldier who becomes locked...
New Auteurs Selections (11 Titles)
From Afar – When a middle-aged man is assaulted and robbed by a young criminal, an unlikely relationship develops. Dir Lorenzo Vigas. Scr Lorenzo Vigas. Cast Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva. Venezuela/Mexico. U.S. Premiere
Disorder – Matthias Schoenaerts plays an ex-soldier who becomes locked...
- 10/15/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Chinese director Ju Anqi’s Poet On A Business Trip won the 16th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff)’s Grand Prize in the International Competition.
Ahn Koocjin’s Korean Academy of Film Arts (Kafa) feature production Alice In Earnestland picked up the Grand Prize in the Korean Competition.
Supported by the Rotterdam film festival’s Hubert Bals Fund, Poet On A Business Trip made its world premiere in Rotterdam and its Asian premiere at Jeonju. Completed more than a decade after it was shot, the film documents the poet Shu as he goes on a tour of the Xinjiang region in 2002, visiting the Uighur people of the area and composing 16 poems on his “business trip”.
Awarding the film its KW20m ($19,700) award, the International Jury called it “simple, curious, artful and ultimately very moving.”
“This selection of emerging filmmakers has been characterized by a risk-taking independent spirit, which we hope they will all take into their future...
Ahn Koocjin’s Korean Academy of Film Arts (Kafa) feature production Alice In Earnestland picked up the Grand Prize in the Korean Competition.
Supported by the Rotterdam film festival’s Hubert Bals Fund, Poet On A Business Trip made its world premiere in Rotterdam and its Asian premiere at Jeonju. Completed more than a decade after it was shot, the film documents the poet Shu as he goes on a tour of the Xinjiang region in 2002, visiting the Uighur people of the area and composing 16 poems on his “business trip”.
Awarding the film its KW20m ($19,700) award, the International Jury called it “simple, curious, artful and ultimately very moving.”
“This selection of emerging filmmakers has been characterized by a risk-taking independent spirit, which we hope they will all take into their future...
- 5/7/2015
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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