Paolo Cortellesi’s “There’s Still Tomorrow,” a field workplace smash in its native Italy, was Sunday named winner of the Sydney Movie Prize on the finish of the Sydney Film Festival (June 5-16)
A jury headed by Danis Tanovic known as the movie about an industrious girl in publish WWII Rome “audacious, cutting-edge and brave.” The prize is among the richest awarded at any competition and is price A$60,000 ($39,600).
The announcement was made on the metropolis’s State Theatre forward of the Australian premiere screening of the Demi Moore-starring Cannes hit “The Substance.”
The A$20,000 ($13,200) Documentary Australia award went to native filmmaker James Bradley, for “Welcome to Babel,” which charts Chinese language-Australian artist Jiawei Shen’s plans to create an epic work.
The inaugural recipient of the biggest money prize for First Nations filmmaking, the A$35,000 ($23,100) First Nations Award went to New Zealand filmmaker Awanui Simich-Pene’s “First Horse,” a brief movie that follows a younger M?ori woman in 1826, a time when Aotearoa was on the cusp of colonization.
The 2024 recipient of the A$40,000 ($26,400) Sustainable Future Award was U.S. filmmaker Alina Simone for her movie “Black Snow,” a documentary about a Siberian eco-activist, who fights for her neighborhood in a distant Russian mining city.
5 brief movie prizes had been awarded for The Dendy Awards for Australian Quick Movies. These included the A$7,000 ($4,620) Dendy Dwell Motion Quick Award for “Die Bully Die,” directed by Nathan and Nick Lacey; Yoram Gross Animation Award which was awarded to “Darwin Story,” directed by Natasha Tonkin; the Rouben Mamoulian Award for finest director which was offered to Pernell Marsden for “The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste.”
The AFTRS Craft Award for finest practitioner (a $7,000 money prize) went to Chloe Kemp, screenwriter of “Say.” The Occasion Cinemas Rising Expertise Award, with a money prize of A$7,000 was awarded to Bridget Morrison, lead actor of the identical movie.
The A$10,000 ($6,600) Sydney-UNESCO Metropolis of Movie Award, offered by Display NSW to a trail-blazing New South Wales-based display practitioner, went to producer Debbie Lee.
“Our 71st Sydney Movie Competition has been a rare success, with a exceptional turnout of movie fans attending over 400 screenings, particular occasions, and talks. This yr, we showcased over 230 distinctive movies from all over the world, and our audiences eagerly participated within the festivities, leading to practically 150 sold-out classes all through the Competition,” mentioned competition CEO Frances Wallace.
Competition director Nashen Moodley mentioned: “This yr, now we have been privileged to showcase exceptional movies from all over the world, every bringing its distinctive voice and imaginative and prescient to our screens [..] This has been one other resoundingly profitable yr for the competition.”
In associated information, it was introduced that the competition’s head of applications and documentary programmer, Jenny Neighbour, shall be leaving after 35 years with the group.
“She leaves with the competition in unbelievable form, for which she ought to take an excessive amount of credit score, and on the event of the distinctive excessive of an awesome 2024 version,” mentioned Moodley.
