Friday, October 03, 2003

Scenario!
London Film School and the Institut francais Explore Writing For The Screen

Scenario! takes place from 6 to 12 October at the cine lumiere, Institut francais,17 Queeensberry Place, London, SW7 2DT.

Highlights include Stephen Fry talking about his new film Bright Young Things; Richard Jobson talking about his first feature 16 years without alcohol; Hanif Kureshi will discuss his screenwriting career; and, there will be previews and a TV Writing Event.

For more details visit www.lfs.org.uk/scenario.htm
Star Cast At Marrakech Film Festival

Oliver Stone and Jeremy Irons are the star guests at the forthcoming Marrakech Film festival.

The festival, now in its third year, runs from 3 October, 2003 to Wednesday, 8 October, 2003. The event is held under the patronage of the King of Morocco, HM Mohamed V1, and a total 0f 72 films will be screened.

Jeremy Irons will lead the jury to judge the short films category, and German filmmaker Volker Schlondorff (Death of a Salesman, The Tin Drum) will head the feature-length film jury.

Oliver Stone, Sir Ridley Scott and French actor Alain Delon will be honoured at the opening night ceremony on 3 October. Oliver Stone is currently shooting Alexander in Morocco, and Ridley Scott filmed Black Hawk Down here and parts of Gladiator.

The opening night will also feature a tribute to Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who founded the Marrakech Film Festival and died earlier this year.

For details of the festival visit: www.visitmorocco.com
ASOLOARTFILMFESTIVAL
22-28 September, 2003
Asolo – Montebelluna

GRAN PREMIO ASOLO 2003 TO MARIO MARTONE

The jury of the AsoloArtFilmFestival 2003, with the following members: Vittorio Fagone (President of the jury), Corrado Balest, Luca Massimo Barbero, Giuseppe Barbieri, Fabrizio Borin, has awarded the following prizes after viewing the 59 films in competition:

GRAND PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST FILM IN COMPETITION to Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano by Mario Martone (Ananas, Italy, 2001).

PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST FILM ON ART to Orba/Cian by Eduardo López López (Jaime Genovart, Argentina, 2003).

A Special Mention for the following film in the same category: Lluvia by Diego Agudo Pinilla (Emilio Lujan, Spain, 2002).

PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST FILM ON LIVES OF ARTISTS to Martha Argerich, Evening Talks by Georges Gachot (Georges Gachot/Ideale Audence, France, 2002).

PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST VIDEO/COMPUTER ART to Gestalt by Thorsten Fleisch (Thorsten Fleisch, Germania, 2003) ex aequo with Regard de pierre by Pierre Yves Cruaud (Pierre Yves Cruaud, France, 2002).

PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION (SCHOOLS) to Roll over Ehrenfeld by Olaf Geuer (Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany, 2002).

A Special Mention for the followings films: Aggigma by Giuliano Vece and Petra Biondina Volpe (KHM, Germany, 2002) and to Cocteau Cento by Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino (Luis Valdovino, Fine Arts Department, University of Colorado, USA, 2003).

In addition, the jury has signalled the praiseworthy activity done by the Istituto Statale d’Arte di Urbino “Scuola del Libro” – Section Animation Drawing (2002) which revealed itself to be actively involved in experimenting new audiovisual techniques.

PRIZE GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO FOR BEST SOUND TRACK to Foreign Bodies by Isabelle Birebent (Isabelle Birebent, Germany, 2002).

SPECIAL PRIZE “FLAVIA PAULON”: The Presidency of the Asolo International Art Festival (A.I.A.F.) has instituted this year the Special Prize “Flavia Paulon” entitled to the founder of both the “Festival of Films on Art and the Lives of Artists” (1973) and of the “International Cartoon Festival” (1974) and has assigned it to Mario Verdone for extraordinary and incomparable merits accumulated during over half a century of activity in the fields of historical research, of critical interpretation, of promotion and diffusion of the cinematographic culture.