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FIVE DEBUT FILMMAKERS LOOKING TO SNAG YOUNG LION
09/08/2010
Five of this year’s Venice Days films are in the running for the Lion of the Future-Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Film at the Venice Film Festival. According to Venice Days Delegate General Giorgio Gosetti: “ALthough the primary goal of our independent section, promoted by ANAC and 100Autori, is not to discover young talent (like International Critics’ Week, with it’s line-up of eight first films), our search for creativity – the ultimate sense of our selection – brings us into contact with quality debut filmmakers that each year we proudly place alongside established directors who make courageous, risky and creative films.”
This year’s debutantes are: Italy’s Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini, who in Et in terra Pax recall Pasolini as they journey into Rome’s poorer neighborhoods to examine the loss of social identity; Sarah Bouyain (Burkina Faso), who in The Place in Between follows an African teenager from Paris to Burkina Faso, as she returns to her roots and searches for her mother; Colombian director Oscar Andrade, making his debut alongside Jairo Eduardo Carrillo in the animated title Pequeñas voces, inspired by the stories and drawing of the young children orphaned by the vicious civil war that brought their country to its knees; US director Paul Gordon (known for his film school shorts, which he gathered together in “Motorcycle”) and his The Happy Poet, a cheery fairy tale of urban survival about a young, out-of-work man and his quixotic, stubborn dream to create an alternative and “organic” niche for himself; and Turkish filmmaker Seren Yüce, whose offers a sad ballad on love and conformity, as well as a snapshot of our society’s racism in Majority.
Adds Gosetti: “Alongside other European titles in our selection that are vying for the Europa Cinemas Label (MEDIA Programme) and the films of Matias Bize (Chile), Danis Tanovic (Bosnia) and Denis Villeneuve (Canada), these debut films are proof of a thriving and original cinema, and are infused with the same spirit of experimentation and renovation as the entire Festival, as director Marco Müller intended.”
All of the films of Venice Days are eligible for the parallel prizes that will be awarded at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
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