Oct 01 2007

Méliès d’Or

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1. # filmreakteron 01 Oct 2007 at 22:22

   « Princess » Méliès d’Or winner awarded at Lund Intl. Fantastic Film Festival in Sweden

   Luxembourg’s co-production « Renaissance » and Cinénygma Luxembourg Intl. Film Festival winner « Grimm love » were awarded a special mention

   This year’s Méliès d’Or competition winners for best European fantastic feature film and short film, have been awarded during a ceremony at the Lund Intl. Fantastic Film Festival. The Danish/German anti-pornography film PRINCESS won the feature category, while the Norwegian short film SNIFFER won the short film nomination category for the prestigious Méliès d’Or.

   This year’s Jury was composed of Swedish professor of film studies Erik Hedling, Finish actress Krista Kosonen, Taco Stomps, head of Internet Films 1 from the Netherland and Luxembourg president of the A.T.A.C. and line producer Jean-Claude Schlim.

   The jury’s motivation reads as follows:
   ”This year’s winner of the Méliès d’Or mixes the visual styles of Manga and home movies. It tells a morally complex and fantastic tale of violence and pornography. It twists and turns and is highly original in its use of colour and music. Princess is an outstanding European movie.”

   PRINCESS (directed by Anders Morgenthaler and produced by Sarita Christensen), which is eighty percent animated, is a dark tale told with a type of moral complex of problems that might not look like something one would ordinarily associate with animated film.

   A missionary, August, battles with the tragic fate of his sister. After many years in the pornography industry, the Princess has run down both her life and career so that the only option left is her own death. August lives his life as a minister tormented by his sister’s fate and the need of her daughter’s, he begins a crusade to destroy all pornographic materials containing the Princess.
   The 2007 Méliès d’Or short film SNIFFER is directed by Bobbie Peers.

   The jury also addressed a Special Mention to the Luxembourg co-production RENAISSANCE, winner at the Fantasporto International Film Festival, for its visually innovative style and to GRIMM LOVE the Méliès d’Argent winner of the 10th Cinénygma Luxembourg International Film Festival, for its courage.

   The 12th Méliès d’Or Award Ceremony will be held at Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya in October 2008.

   The European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation and the Méliès d’Or competition:
   http://www.melies.org
   Romain Roll
   EFFFF
   Coordinator
   romain@melies.org

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