Experimental function Dream of One other Summer time has picked up Locarno Professional’s Antaviana Movies First Look Award, the most important prize handed out by the competition’s business part. The award comes with post-production companies as much as €50,000.
The function is helmed by Barcelona-born, Beirut-based filmmaker Irene Bartolomé. Producers on the venture are Pere Marzo (Colibrí Studio), Bartolomé (I.B. Movies), and Elie Kamal (The Attic Productions).
Discussing their selection, the Locarno Professional jury — comprised of Beatrice Fiorentino (Inventive Director, Venice’s Worldwide Movie Critics’ Week), Kerem Ayan (Director, Istanbul Movie Competition), and Mercedes Martínez-Abarca (Programmer, Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam) — stated the movie is “a poetic and rigorous venture that elaborates on collective trauma by rewriting the topography of a metropolis wounded many occasions by historical past.”
The jury added: “In its twin private and non-private dimensions, it restores the complexity of a territory marked by the previous and the drive for modernity.”
Elsewhere, The Music Library &SFX/Acorde Award price € 45,000 in music supervision companies went to Río abajo, un tigre directed by Víctor Diago and produced by Montse Pujol Solà (Boogaloo Movies), which additionally nabbed the award by Laserfilm cine y vídeo, price € 5,000.
The second annual Heritage On-line Restoration Contest was gained by Liliana Cavani’s I Cannibali (The Cannibals, 1969). The movie, represented by Minerva Footage, will obtain a full restoration by German-based movie lab Cinegrell and will likely be proven on the 2025 Locarno Movie Competition.
Try the total winners checklist under.
FIRST LOOK
Antaviana Movies First Look Award
As much as € 50,000 in post-production companies
· Dream of One other Summer time
Directed by: Irene Bartolomé
Produced by: Pere Marzo (Colibrí Studio), Irene Bartolomé (I.B. Movies) and Elie Kamal (The Attic Productions)
Jury assertion: “A poetic and rigorous venture that elaborates on collective trauma by rewriting the topography of a metropolis wounded many occasions by historical past. In its twin private and non-private dimensions, it restores the complexity of a territory marked by the previous and the drive for modernity.”
Music Library &SFX/Acorde Award
€ 45,000 in music supervision companies at Music Library &SFX ’s labs
· Río abajo, un tigre
Directed by: Víctor Diago
Produced by: Montse Pujol Solà (Boogaloo Movies)
Laserfilm cine y vídeo Award
€ 5,000, which may, for instance, be spent on subtitles, audio descriptions, recognizing lists, transcriptions or a DCP
· Río abajo, un tigre
Directed by: Víctor Diago
Produced by: Montse Pujol Solà (Boogaloo Movies)
Jannuzzi Smith Award
The design of a world poster price € 10,000.
· Mares
Directed by: Ariadna Seuba
Produced by: Carles Brugeras, Marieke van der Bersselaar (Polar Star Movies), María Nova López (Intactes Movies)
Le Movie Français Award
€ 5,600 of promoting area
· Bodegón con fantasmas
Directed by: Enrique Buleo
Produced by: Alejandra Mora (Quatre Movies Audiovisuales SL), Alicia Yubero (Cuidado con el perro), Snezana van Houwelingen (This and that), Roberto Butragueño (Sideral)
ALLIANCE 4 DEVELOPMENT
Alphapanda Market Breakout Award
Consultancy companies within the worth of € 3,500
· Bourgeois Paranoia by Lukas Nathrath, produced by Linus Günther (Klinkerfilm Manufacturing, Germany)
Alphapanda states: “The Alphapanda Market Breakout Award 2024 goes to a promising imaginative and prescient that we can not wait to cringe about. Humour, discomfort, obsession, revenge and bourgeois paranoia are stretched to the boundaries and we’re in for the bloody journey.”
Script Consultancy Residency at DreamAgo provided by the Valais Movie Fee
· 6 Mois 6 jours (6 Months 6 Days) by Michale Boganim, produced by Mathilde Leite (Vilanova Productions, France), co-produced by Dorothe Beinemeier (Purple Balloon Movie, Germany)
Pascale Rey (DreamAgo) and Tristan Albrecht (Valais Movie Fee) state: “This venture is a powerful story (validated by the factors of DreamAgo) and an incredible potential on the manufacturing aspect (validated by the Valais Movie Fee). Subsequently we’re very glad to supply the author a script doctoring by Sir Christopher Hampton, throughout Plume & Pellicule in June 2025.”
MIDPOINT Consulting Award
A in-depth on-line script consultancy with one of many MIDPOINT Institute specialists
· La Fin de l’été (Atlantic Mirage) by Hakim Mao, produced by Emma Binet and Charles Meresse (Furyo Movies, France)
MIDPOINT states: “We’re excited to help a compelling and gripping story that uniquely blends themes and genres, set towards the mysterious backdrop of the cosmopolitan metropolis of Agadir. Hakim Mao satisfied us together with his robust creative imaginative and prescient, and we’re keen to assist him carry it to life.”
Ticino Movie Fee Residence Award
A 2-day location scout (price CHF 4,000) and Letter of Intent (LOI) for monetary help for the manufacturing firm (price as much as CHF 12,000), if all or a part of the movie will likely be shot in Ticino
· Itaca (Ithaca) by Alessandro Grande, produced by Alessandro Amato and Luigi Chimienti (dispàrte, Italy)
Jury assertion: “The Ticino Movie fee is proud to award its prize to the venture Itaca, wherein the landscapes play a elementary position in expressing the violent rupture that its younger protagonist experiences – being kidnapped from its southern homeland and moved to a northern, mountainous, area. We’re assured that, with our help, the manufacturing will be capable of discover the proper areas to recreate this touching real-life story and current it to a wider public.”
HERITAGE RESTORATION CONTEST
· I Cannibali (The Cannibals, 1970) by Liliana Cavani
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Alliance 4 Growth is feasible due to partnerships with CNC (Centre nationwide du cinéma et de l’picture animée), France; FFA (Filmförderungsanstalt), Germany; DGCA-MiC (Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo del Ministero della Cultura), Italy; ÖFI (Österreichisches Filminstitut), Austria; the Federal Workplace of Tradition (FOC) / MEDIA Desk Suisse, Switzerland. A4D can be made potential by contributions from Eurimages, which promotes and sponsors one of many initiative’s networking occasions, and from the European Producers Membership, which gives consultancy on the varied points coated.
