VI INTERNATIONAL FILM SCHOOL MEETING

The Jury of the VI International Film School Meeting, consisting of students from centres in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, France, Belgium and Spain, and chaired by the director Alfonso Cuarón, grants the PANAVISION Award to the film:

• “VITA DE GIACOMO” by Luca Governatori. La Femis. France.

The Award carries a complete camera package Sony Z1 HDV for four weeks of filming, or a voucher worth €10,000 for renting any kind of Panavision material, for the winning director.

The Jury also grants three special mentions with an invitation to participate in the SHORT FILM CORNER at the next Cannes Festival:

• “IDIOMA”, by Ian Menoyot (IAD, Belgium)
• “DE LAS RELACIONES”, by Jorge Acebo (CECC, Barcelona)
• “LA INVENCIÓN”, by Andrés García Franco (UNAM, Mexico)

San Sebastian, 28th September 2007

Jury consisting of students from the participating film schools and chaired by: ALFONSO CUARÓN

A specific jury, consisting of students from the participating film schools and chaired this year by the Mexican moviemaker Alfonso Cuarón, will present the winning director with the Panavision Award, carrying a complete camera package Sony Z1 HDV for four weeks of filming or a voucher worth €10,000 for renting any kind of Panavision material.

The jury will also decide the names of the three directors who will have the chance to participate with their works in the Short Film Corner at the next Cannes Festival.  

“My main reason for accepting to participate as Chairman of the Jury in the VI International Film School Meeting is because I am enormously interested in learning from this new generation of filmmakers due to its being the first to have been born with the new formats making film production more accessible. These new formats have also brought a new eye, a new way of interpreting reality“, said Cuarón.

ALFONSO CUARÓN

Born in Mexico City in 1961. He made his debut in the film world as assistant director on several North American films shot in his country. He also worked as a director for Mexican TV before directing his first feature film, Sólo con tu pareja (Love in Time of Hysteria, 1991). This unusual comedy about AIDS was made with a budget of only half-a-million dollars, a factor which caught the attention of Hollywood. A Little Princess (1995), his second feature, marked his directorial debut in the USA. This film was a great hit when screened at San Sebastian Festival. He later made an adaptation of Dickens’ Great Expectations (1998) with a top-line cast.

Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too, 2001), starring Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna and Maribel Verdú, was screened at San Sebastian Festival in an Anoeta Velodrome packed to the hilt and attended by Cuarón himself, who thanked the audience for its enthusiasm. He was once again approached by the big studios to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and his last big success to date is the disturbing futuristic tale Children of Men (2006), screened last year as part of Zabaltegi-Pearls. He also directed one of the episodes of Paris, je t’aime (2006).

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