Other winners include documentary Mallory from Helena Treštíková.
Us drama Bob and the Trees has won the Crystal Globe at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) (July 3-11).
Bob Tarasuk, a logger and rap fan who plays himself in the film, accepted the prize at the festival’s awards ceremony alongside director Diego Ongaro.
After accepting the festival’s top prize, the director revealed he had ploughed his own money into the film and said: “This really is a surprise. We had virtually no money to shoot the film so I had to invest my and my wife’s money, and I would like to thank everybody involved in making the film.”
He added that the film has yet to find a distributor.
Tarasuk added: “I have never won anything. I have never left the States. But my grandmother was Czech and my grandfather Ukrainian so I dedicate this award to them.”
The film, which...
Us drama Bob and the Trees has won the Crystal Globe at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) (July 3-11).
Bob Tarasuk, a logger and rap fan who plays himself in the film, accepted the prize at the festival’s awards ceremony alongside director Diego Ongaro.
After accepting the festival’s top prize, the director revealed he had ploughed his own money into the film and said: “This really is a surprise. We had virtually no money to shoot the film so I had to invest my and my wife’s money, and I would like to thank everybody involved in making the film.”
He added that the film has yet to find a distributor.
Tarasuk added: “I have never won anything. I have never left the States. But my grandmother was Czech and my grandfather Ukrainian so I dedicate this award to them.”
The film, which...
- 7/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Karlovy Vary grand jury (U.S. exhibitor Tim League; Angelina Nikonova, Russia; Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Iceland; Hangameh Panahi, France; Ondrej Zach, Czech Republic) has awarded Karlovy Vary’s $25,000 Grand Prix Crystal Globe to Massachusetts-based French director Diego Ongaro’s first feature, “Bob and the Trees.” Starring the real life Bob Tarasuk, a logger and farmer from Bridgeport, Connecticut, the film was developed out of a documentary short Ongaro made about Tarasuk in 2010. The vérite-style film world-premiered at Sundance. The Special Jury Prize of $15,000 went to the Austrian film “Those Who Fall Have Wings,” written and directed by Peter Brunner, who studied under Michael Haneke at the Filmacademy Vienna. This is his second feature. The best director award went to Kosovo’s Visar Morina for the film “Babai,” about a young boy forced to grow up fast when his father abandons him. Financed by Germany, Kosovo, Macedonia and...
- 7/13/2015
- by Tom Christie
- Thompson on Hollywood
Anti-Nazi satire from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Bruggemann and a new documentary from Mark Cousins among titles.Scroll down for competition line-ups
The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West, Forum of Independents and Documentary sections.
The main competition will comprise seven world premieres and six international premieres, including the new film from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heil, a satirical comedy centred on neo-Nazis.
Polish documentary director Marcin Koszałkaʼs will present his feature debut, The Red Spider, a psychological thriller inspired by true events from the 1950s that delves into the mechanisms that give rise to a mass murderer.
Danish documentary maker Daniel Dencik will present his first feature, Gold Coast, about a young anti-colonial idealist who sets out for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation - but not everything goes to plan. The music is...
The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West, Forum of Independents and Documentary sections.
The main competition will comprise seven world premieres and six international premieres, including the new film from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heil, a satirical comedy centred on neo-Nazis.
Polish documentary director Marcin Koszałkaʼs will present his feature debut, The Red Spider, a psychological thriller inspired by true events from the 1950s that delves into the mechanisms that give rise to a mass murderer.
Danish documentary maker Daniel Dencik will present his first feature, Gold Coast, about a young anti-colonial idealist who sets out for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation - but not everything goes to plan. The music is...
- 6/2/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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