Massoud Bakhshi’s Yalda wins two prizes at the event.
Production awards worth more than €470,000 were handed out at the 2016 TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event (Nov 23-25), held within the Torino Film Festival.
Three films were awarded Tfl co-production awards worth €50,000 each; Danielle Lessovitz’s Port Authority; Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever and Massoud Bakhshi’s Yalda.
Yalda also took home the audience award, voted for by attendees at event, worth €30,000.
Tehran-born Bakhshi’s feature debut, A Respectable Family, premiered at Cannes in 2012.
The international jury, which was chaired by the Venice Film Festival’s Artistic Director Alberto Barbera, also awarded production awards worth €40,000 each to three films; The Guest by Duccio Chiarini; The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat and The Staffroom by Sonja Tarokić.
New award
A new prize this year was the Lago development award, worth €5000, which went to Jan-Ole Gerster’s Imperium.
Apprentice by Boo Junfeng, Felicity by Alain Gomis, Jesús by [link...
Production awards worth more than €470,000 were handed out at the 2016 TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event (Nov 23-25), held within the Torino Film Festival.
Three films were awarded Tfl co-production awards worth €50,000 each; Danielle Lessovitz’s Port Authority; Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever and Massoud Bakhshi’s Yalda.
Yalda also took home the audience award, voted for by attendees at event, worth €30,000.
Tehran-born Bakhshi’s feature debut, A Respectable Family, premiered at Cannes in 2012.
The international jury, which was chaired by the Venice Film Festival’s Artistic Director Alberto Barbera, also awarded production awards worth €40,000 each to three films; The Guest by Duccio Chiarini; The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat and The Staffroom by Sonja Tarokić.
New award
A new prize this year was the Lago development award, worth €5000, which went to Jan-Ole Gerster’s Imperium.
Apprentice by Boo Junfeng, Felicity by Alain Gomis, Jesús by [link...
- 11/25/2016
- ScreenDaily
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