Panama City — Colombian Laura Mora’s vengeance drama “Killing Jesus” took the Copa Airlines Audience Award for Ibero-American fiction feature; and Ernesto Daranas’ “Sergio and Sergei” topped the Central America and Caribbean section.
In further plaudits, Fernando Muñoz’s “A Calypso Night” scooped best documentary, in prizes announced at the closing ceremony of Iff Panama, that wrapped Wednesday night in Panama City.
At a press conference, artistic director Diana Sanchez announced that in 2019 Iff Panama will complement the audience awards with a Fipresci prize for best film from Central America and the Caribbean. Next year’s fest edition will also hold a film criticism training workshop, in a new initiative agreed with Fipresci president, Klaus Eder, who attended this year’s Iff Panama.
Festival guest Geraldine Chaplin said that the Fipreci prize is an important step forward: “Whenever I go to a festival, I can’t see all the films,...
In further plaudits, Fernando Muñoz’s “A Calypso Night” scooped best documentary, in prizes announced at the closing ceremony of Iff Panama, that wrapped Wednesday night in Panama City.
At a press conference, artistic director Diana Sanchez announced that in 2019 Iff Panama will complement the audience awards with a Fipresci prize for best film from Central America and the Caribbean. Next year’s fest edition will also hold a film criticism training workshop, in a new initiative agreed with Fipresci president, Klaus Eder, who attended this year’s Iff Panama.
Festival guest Geraldine Chaplin said that the Fipreci prize is an important step forward: “Whenever I go to a festival, I can’t see all the films,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Swiss-born filmmaker Rebecca Panian working on project.
Beki Probst, the grande dame of the international film world and outgoing president of Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm), is to be the centre of a feature documentary with the working title Beki, which is being directed by the Swiss-born filmmaker Rebecca Panian.
Speaking exclusively to Screen, Panian said that Zurich’s Dschoint Ventschr is producing the project which has been in the making for the past three years. The idea for a film about Probst was proposed by her close friend Edi Stöckli.
”She is such an impressive woman for what she has done at the Berlinale over the past 30 years and I also want to show the next phase where she will attend a script writing course at the film school in Lausanne, Switzerland,” Panian explained.
Panian had accompanied Probst to Jerusalem in 2015 for a memorial to the late Jerusalem Film Festival founder Lia Van Leer, ”It was...
Beki Probst, the grande dame of the international film world and outgoing president of Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm), is to be the centre of a feature documentary with the working title Beki, which is being directed by the Swiss-born filmmaker Rebecca Panian.
Speaking exclusively to Screen, Panian said that Zurich’s Dschoint Ventschr is producing the project which has been in the making for the past three years. The idea for a film about Probst was proposed by her close friend Edi Stöckli.
”She is such an impressive woman for what she has done at the Berlinale over the past 30 years and I also want to show the next phase where she will attend a script writing course at the film school in Lausanne, Switzerland,” Panian explained.
Panian had accompanied Probst to Jerusalem in 2015 for a memorial to the late Jerusalem Film Festival founder Lia Van Leer, ”It was...
- 2/22/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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