BARCELONA — Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s debut feature “The Platform” was awarded best film and best music at the 52nd Sitges’ Intl. Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. Gaztelu-Urrutia al…
BARCELONA — Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s debut feature “The Platform” was awarded best film and best music at the 52nd Sitges’ Intl. Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. Gaztelu-Urrutia also snagged the Citizen Kane Award for an up-and-coming director. The prizes come off the back of the Grolsch People’s Choice Award at Toronto’s Midnight Madness.
This year’s jury included director-producer-writer Anurag Kashyap , producers Alan Jones and Marina Ortiz, editor Mary Jo Markey and casting director Nancy Bishop. Best screenplay went to Mirrah Foulkes for her debut directorial feature “Judy & Punch,” “a tale of domestic-violence revenge set in a satirical-whimsical land of never-was,” according to its The best actor award went to Miles Robbins for his performance in Adam Egypt Mortimer’s “Daniel Isn’t Real.” Robbins plays Luke, a distressed college student who, after suffering a violent family trauma, revives his childhood imaginary friend.
Traditionally a launchpad for young local talent in genre cinema, this Sitges edition delivered a robust brace of movies by up-and-coming directors with five Spanish directors in the main section – Gaztelu-Urrutia, Óscar Martín , Aritz Moreno , José Luis Montesinos and Alice Waddington . An Honorary Career Achievement Awards were granted to actor Sam Neill . The Méliès Career Award went to Italian actress-director Asia Argento .
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