Shi Ching Tso’s left handed girl It won the Best Film award in the Progressive Cinema Competition at this year’s Rome Film Festival, which ended on October 26th.
Tso’s solo directorial debut will be produced, edited and co-written by Sean Baker, with Tso producing alongside Mike Goodridge of Britain’s Good Chaos. Le Pacte will be in charge of sales. Netflix has rights to most of the world.
The drama, set in Taipei, follows a single mother and her two daughters as they open a food stall in a busy night market and adapt to their new surroundings. The film had its world premiere at Cannes Critics’ Week and was Taiwan’s entry for the best international film Oscar.
Chinese director Wang Tong wins best director award in social category drama wild Tamed beasts at night The Grand Jury Prize went to Pauline Roques’ feature-length debut. Nino.
The award for best screenplay went to Iranian-Canadian director Alireza Khatami. for of what you killa film he also directed.
Anson Boone won the film festival’s Vittorio Guzman Best Actor Award for his role in the thriller. good boyEnglish debut from. corpus christi Film director Jean Komasa.
The role of Jasmine Trinca in the Italian drama directed by Andrea De Sica saw what you did She won the Monica Vitti Award for Best Actress.
The special jury award went to the cast of the film. 40 secondsan Italian biographical drama based on a true story, directed by Vincenzo Alfieri and co-written with Giuseppe Stasi. The film follows a man in the wrong place at the wrong time over the course of the 24 hours leading up to his brutal assault and death.
Actress, screenwriter, writer, and director Paola Cortelesi chaired the jury, which consisted of Finnish director and screenwriter Teemu Nikki, British writer and director William Oldroyd, American writer and illustrator Brian Selznick, and French-Finnish actress Nadia Tereszkiewicz.
The award ceremony took place on the evening of October 25th at the Sala Petrassi, one of the festival’s key venues in the Ennio Morricone Park in the Italian capital.
Italian director Alberto Palmiero won the award for Best First Feature. Tienimi present, It was chosen by a jury chaired by Argentinian director and producer Santiago Mitre and including British director and screenwriter Christopher Andrews and Italian actress Barbara Ronchi. The first feature award was chosen throughout the festival in the following categories: Progressive Cinema Competition, Freestyle, and Grand Public.
Actors Samuel Bottomley and Seamus MacLean Ross receive special recognition for James McAvoy’s directorial debut california skimin‘.
The documentary jury, chaired by Romanian director, cinematographer, editor and producer Alexander Nanau, along with director and screenwriter Santiago Maza and producer Nadia Trevisan, awarded the festival’s first feature documentary award to director Egor Troyanovsky. Cuba and Alaska.
The Audience Award went to documentaries by Ilaria de Laurentiis, Andrea Paolo Massara and Raffel Brunetti. Roberto Rossellini – Multiple lives.
Festival organizers said this year’s event saw a 6% increase in overall attendance from last year, with 116,503 participants over the 12 days. The festival screened 198 films from 38 countries. It was held from October 15th to 26th.
