Directors’ Fortnight, the independent selection running alongside the Cannes Film Festival, has created a People’s Choice Award which will be voted on by audiences.
The prize is endowed by the Fondation Chantal Akerman and will be awarding the filmmaker of the winning feature a grant of €7,500 which will be presented at the closing ceremony.
Directors’ Fortnight organizers stated the new award will pay tribute to Chantal Akerman, “whose pioneering, eclectic and fiercely independent vision might serve as a compass for this new People’s Choice.”
Directors’ Fortnight said it “(shares) a long history” with Chantal Akerman dating back to 1975, when she presented there her film “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce – 1080 Brussels.” Directors’ Fortnight went to premiere Akerman’s films, including Golden Eighties (1986), Sud (1999), La Captive (2000) and Tombée de Nuit sur Shanghaï (2007).
The sidebar said People’s Choice will celebrate a film that will be an “affirmation of a unique...
The prize is endowed by the Fondation Chantal Akerman and will be awarding the filmmaker of the winning feature a grant of €7,500 which will be presented at the closing ceremony.
Directors’ Fortnight organizers stated the new award will pay tribute to Chantal Akerman, “whose pioneering, eclectic and fiercely independent vision might serve as a compass for this new People’s Choice.”
Directors’ Fortnight said it “(shares) a long history” with Chantal Akerman dating back to 1975, when she presented there her film “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce – 1080 Brussels.” Directors’ Fortnight went to premiere Akerman’s films, including Golden Eighties (1986), Sud (1999), La Captive (2000) and Tombée de Nuit sur Shanghaï (2007).
The sidebar said People’s Choice will celebrate a film that will be an “affirmation of a unique...
- 3/27/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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