Three shortlisted films for the European Parliament prize have been on seven week Europe-wide tour.
Felix Van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown has won the 2013 edition of the Lux Prize, established by the European Parliament in 2007 to spotlight films that deal with Europe-wide issues and support their distribution across the 28 EU member states. MEPs were asked to cast their vote among three films, whittled down by a panel of 16 European cinema professionals from a longlist of ten films. The runners-up were UK director Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, and Miele by Italian actress turned director Valeria Golino.
Around a third of MEPs actually vote, revealed Doris Pack, chair of the European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education and one of the original promoters of the award. “That’s not bad considering their busy schedules,” she added “and the fact that the rest of year they don’t generally see three films back to back with...
Felix Van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown has won the 2013 edition of the Lux Prize, established by the European Parliament in 2007 to spotlight films that deal with Europe-wide issues and support their distribution across the 28 EU member states. MEPs were asked to cast their vote among three films, whittled down by a panel of 16 European cinema professionals from a longlist of ten films. The runners-up were UK director Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, and Miele by Italian actress turned director Valeria Golino.
Around a third of MEPs actually vote, revealed Doris Pack, chair of the European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education and one of the original promoters of the award. “That’s not bad considering their busy schedules,” she added “and the fact that the rest of year they don’t generally see three films back to back with...
- 12/11/2013
- ScreenDaily
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