‘Alpha’ Wins Europa Cinema Giornate Prize; ‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’ Clinches Final Cut Award & Amazon Exec Glenn Gainor Feted By Producers Without Borders – Venice Briefs
deadline.com‘Alpha’ Wins Europa Cinema Prize At Giornate Degli Autori Dutch director Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s Alps-set father and son survival drama Alpha has won the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film in parallel Venice section Giornate degli Autori.
The award comes with promotional and exhibition support from the Europa Cinemas network. The jury consisted of Europa Cinema members Daira Āboliņa (Splendid Palace, Riga, Latvia); António Costa Valente (Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro, Portugal): Andrea Porta (Cinema Teatro Nuovo, Varese, Italy) and Jana Trnková (Head of PR & Marketing, Kino Světozor, Prague, Czech Republic).
The film stars Reinout Scholten van Aschat and Gijs Scholten van Aschat as a son and father with a difficult relationship who find themselves battling for survival when the weather turns sour during a testing walk in the mountains.
Previous winners of the prize have included Ivan Ostrochovský and Pavol Pekarčík’s Photophobia, Wissam Charaf’s Dirty Difficult and Dangerous, Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kaufmann’s Californie, Ivan Ikić’s Oaza and Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi. ‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’ Wins Top Venice Final Cut Prize Egyptian director Morad Mostafa’s drama Aisha Can’t Fly Away has won the top La Biennale di Venezia prize at the 12th edition of Venice’s Final Cut initiative, supporting films in post-production from Africa and Arab countries.
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