40th Sitges Film Festival Winners Announced - The Fall, Inside and Rec are the big winners
The winners for this years 40th Sitges Film Festival have just been announced. The best picture of the festival is The Fall. Rec the brand new zombie film that seriously delivers picked up awards for Best Director, Best Actress, Special Mention, for making possible our fantasy, by letting us watch dying live an upsetting TV presenter, Audience Award El Periódico de Catalunya - Best Motion Picture and the Jose Luis Guarner Critic Award. Inside (À l'intérieur) also had a nice showing picking up awards for Best Make Up FX, Best Motion Picture FANTÀSTIC, Silver Méliès for Best European Motion Picture and the Citizen Kane Award to an up-and-coming director. In the animated film section Aachi & Ssipak won for best animated feature. Japanese fantasy film Dororo won for best picture in the Orient Express section.
Huge congratulations to the Inside directing team who rushed back to France yesterday to get back to work on their next feature. Can't wait to see what these guys whip out of their horror umbilical cord next. Rec which had a huge buzz here should see a healthy dose of film festival screenings in 2008 and I can't imagine it will be long before it gets picked up for US distribution (or at least someone wanting to do a Hollywood remake).
Sad to see Timecrimes not pick up any awards here but I should definitely note its jury screening was done in the worst theater here at the Sala. This theater resembles the set up I watched movies on in my elementary school auditorium and its sound system nearly completely lost several layers of sound I think were crucial to fully experiencing the film. Just not overall the best way to try and judge a movie. For general screenings of films I think the set up works fine.
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40th Sitges Press Release for this years winners:
OFICIAL FANTÀSTIC
JURY
Zoë Bell, Ruggero Deodato, Mark Palansky, Casimiro Torreiro, Eloy Azorín
Best Motion Picture
The Fall by Tarsem Singh
Best Director
Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza for REC
Best Actress
Manuela Velasco for Rec
Best Actor
Sam Rockwell for Joshua (El Hijo del Mal)
Best Script
Chung Seo – Kyung , Park Chan-Wook for I’m a Cyborg but that’s Ok.
Best Cinematography
Toyomichi Kurita for Sukiyaki Western Django
Best Production Design
Takashi Sasaki for Sukiyaki Western Django
Best Make Up FX
À L'Intérieur
Best Special Effects
Mushishi
Best Original Soundtrack
Kuniaki Haishima for Mushishi
Best Short Film
Saliva by Esmir Filho
CARNET JOVE JURY
Carles Matamoros, Néstor Fernández, Aleix Ortuño, Toni Junyent, Mar Canet
Best Motion Picture FANTÀSTIC
À L'Intérieur by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo
Best Motion Picture MIDNIGHT X-TREME
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer by Jon Knautz
NOVES VISIONS SEAT
JURY
Paz Gómez, Roland Reber, José Tito Martínez
Best Motion Picture
Zoo by Robinson Devor
Special Mention
It’s fine, everything it’s fine by Crispin Hellion Glover & David Brothers
NOVA AUTORIA SGAE AWARD
Best Director
Lizania, presented by the Universitat Ramón Llull- Marta Palacín and Elisabet Sort
Best Screenplay
OP. 1207-x, presented by the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Juliâo Luciana
Best Original Score
Vestido Nuevo, presented by the ESCAC-Escàndalo Films, Roger Padilla
ORIENT EXPRESS - CASA ÀSIA
JURY
Lorenzo Bertucci, Mario Dominski, Jesús Antonio López
Best Motion Picture
Dororo by Akihiko Shiota
Special Mention
Mad Detective by Johnie To
ANIMA'T – Gertie Award
JURY
Manuel Bartual, Gaelle Denis, Rosa Pera
Best Animated Film
Aachi & Ssipak by Joe Bum-jin
Special Mention
Tekkonkinkreet by Michael Arias
Best Animated Short film
The Pearce Sisters by Luis Cook
BRIGADOON Paul Naschy
JURY
Josefina Blaya, Marc Benabé, Héctor García
Best short film
Brico Killer by Adrián Cardona
SILVER MÉLIÈS
JURY
Rodrigo Cortés, Marta Figueras, David Pizarro
Silver Méliès for Best European Motion Picture
Á l’intérieur by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo
Special Mention, for making possible our fantasy, by letting us watch dying live an upsetting TV presenter, to Rec by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza
Silver Méliès Award for Best Europea Short Film
Die Grosse Wekstatt (The Big Garage) Alemania by Uwe Nagel
OTHER AWARDS
Audience Award El Periódico de Catalunya - Best Motion Picture
Rec, by Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza
CRITC AWARD
JURY
Stephan Ivancic, Imma Merino, Marcus Kenschnigg, Desiree de Fez, Ferran Auberni
Jose Luis Guarner Critic Award
Rec, by Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza, unanimously
Special Mention
George Ratliff for Joshua (El hijo del mal)
For its subtile way of expressing the fear to today’s everyday life.
Citizen Kane Award to an up-and-coming director
Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo for Á l’intérieur
