Marco Bellocchio Honorary PrizeThe 2022 edition of the Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, will present its Honorary Award to Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio.
The Fists In My Pocket and The Traitor director will attend the festival to pick up his prize. He will host a masterclass during the event, while a retrospective of his films will be screened, as well as his new documentary. “Marco Bellocchio exercises impressive liberty and modernity to combine registers of images and genres, moving between fiction and documentary, between the intimate and the collective.
We are extremely happy and delighted to pay tribute to an indisputable master of contemporary filmmaking, as well as to a body of work which, from the very first films, has demonstrated dazzling modernity, and is brooding, subversive and audacious, formidably eclectic,” said Emilie Bujès, Artistic Director of Visions du Réel.
The prize will be awarded during the 53rd edition of the fest, which runs April 7-17. The filmmaker was the recipient of an honorary Palme d’Or at Cannse last year.UK Casting Awards 2022Nominees have been confirmed for this year’s edition of the UK Casting Awards, which will take place on February 2022 at London Ham Yard Hotel.
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