Jane Campion To Receive Locarno’s Honorary Pardo d’Onore Manor Award
deadline.comJane Campion will be heading to Switzerland this summer to receive an honorary award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, running from August 7 to 17.
The director will be presented with the festival’s Pardo d’Onore Manor Award for outstanding achievement in cinema in a ceremony at its landmark Piazza Grande open-air venue on August 16.
As part of the honorary celebrations, two Campion features will be screened at the festival: An Angel at My Table (1990) and The Piano (1993).
The latter is presented in a new 4K restoration that will make its debut on the Piazza Grande. Campion will also host an onstage Q&A at the Forum @ Spazio Cinema on August 17. “With her directorial debut, Sweetie (1989), Jane Campion asserted herself from the start as a distinctive and unmistakable voice,” Giona A.
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