Canadian director Matthew Rankin’s Persian and French-language drama Universal Language has won the inaugural Audience Award of Directors’ Fortnight.
This is the first official prize launched by Directors’ Fortnight which does not have a jury. The €7,500 cash award, is also the first audience award to be launched in Cannes, across the Official Selection and the parallel sections.
It is being sponsored by the Chantal Akerman Foundation, which preserves the legacy of the director who retained strong ties with Directors’ Fortnight throughout her career, after screening breakthrough film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce – 1080 Brussel in the section in 1975.
Described as taking place “somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg”, Universal Language intertwines multiple characters.
Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it, while Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg and Matthew quits...
This is the first official prize launched by Directors’ Fortnight which does not have a jury. The €7,500 cash award, is also the first audience award to be launched in Cannes, across the Official Selection and the parallel sections.
It is being sponsored by the Chantal Akerman Foundation, which preserves the legacy of the director who retained strong ties with Directors’ Fortnight throughout her career, after screening breakthrough film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce – 1080 Brussel in the section in 1975.
Described as taking place “somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg”, Universal Language intertwines multiple characters.
Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it, while Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg and Matthew quits...
- 5/23/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
MGM and Amazon Studios have unveiled the first official teaser for Saltburn, writer/director Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning film, Promising Young Woman. The gorgeous minute-and-a-half teaser showcases the titular estate that’s the setting of the film and introduces the key players, including Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan’s Oliver and Jacob Elordi’s Felix.
The teaser was accompanied by a new batch of photos from Fennell’s much-anticipated film.
In addition to Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Elordi (Euphoria), Saltburn stars Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, and Carey Mulligan. Mulligan reunites with Fennell after earning an Oscar nomination for her starring role in Promising Young Woman.
Fennell, Margot Robbie, and Josey McNamara serve as producers. Robbie also produced Promising Young Woman and is currently killing it in Barbie, the highest-grossing Warner Bros. Pictures release in box office history.
Jacob Elordi in ‘Saltburn...
The teaser was accompanied by a new batch of photos from Fennell’s much-anticipated film.
In addition to Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Elordi (Euphoria), Saltburn stars Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, and Carey Mulligan. Mulligan reunites with Fennell after earning an Oscar nomination for her starring role in Promising Young Woman.
Fennell, Margot Robbie, and Josey McNamara serve as producers. Robbie also produced Promising Young Woman and is currently killing it in Barbie, the highest-grossing Warner Bros. Pictures release in box office history.
Jacob Elordi in ‘Saltburn...
- 8/30/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
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