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MEET YOUR EDITOR Bruno Chatelin - Check some of his interviews. Board Member of many filmfestivals and regular partner of a few key film events such as Cannes Market, AFM, Venice Production Bridge, Tallinn Industry and Festival...Check our recent partners. The news in French I English This content and related intellectual property cannot be reproduced without prior consent. Stockholm International Film Festival hands out one of the world’s biggest film prizesFor the third year in a row the Stockholm Film Festival will hand out one of the world’s biggest cash prizes for film – The Stockholm Impact Award – together with the City of Stockholm. The prize is worth one million SEK and the winner will also receive a prize designed by the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei. This year’s nominated movies and directors: · Cardinals av Grayson Moore & Aidan Shipley · The Last Verse av Ying-Ting Tseng · My Pure Land av Sarman Masud · Searing Summer av Ebrahim Irajzad · Wild Roses av Anna Jadowska Stockholm Impact Award at Kulturhuset This year the award ceremony for the Stockholm Impact Award will be celebrated with a day dedicated to the price at Kulturhuset, wednesday 15th of November. From 4.30PM there will be an onstage discussion with the winning director, together with actress Saga Becker, actress Malin Levanon, the head of the Swedish Film Institute Anna Serner, actress and director Bahar Pars and culture commissioner in Stockholm Roger Mogert Moderator will be film critic and TV-presenter Andrea Reuter. Culture commissioner Roger Mogert is also the one who has been given the honour to hand over the award to the winning director at 5.30PM. – Film is an artform that enlightens and touches the audience like nothing else. It is also a projection of the world we are living in at the same time as it strives to change it. With the Stockholm Impact Award we want to highlight films that reflect on our society and don’t back down to explore sensitive subjects. I’m very happy that the City of Stockholm together with the Stockholm International Film Festival is able to hand out the Stockholm Impact Award for the third year in a row, says culture commissioner Roger Mogert at the City of Stockholm. The winning director’s film will be screened exclusively at Klarabiografen, Kulturhuset at 6PM. To get access to this screening a ticket is required, which also guarantees a seat for the onstage discussion. Book your ticket here: http://www.stockholmfilmfestival.se/sv/festival/2017/film/impactvinnare_2017 If you don’t want to see the movie the onstage discussion is free for everyone in subject to availability. The section Stockholm Impact Award is a collaboration between the Stockholm International Film Festival and the City of Stockholm with the purpose to highlight the possibility of film to create change and debate through the depiction of contemporary subjects. The prize amount of one million SEK will help the winner in the development of new film projects. Last year the director Wayne Roberts (USA) won the award for Katie Says Goodbye. 2015 the director Leena Yaday (India) won the award for Parched. If you haven’t already, don’t forget to apply for press accreditation for this year’s festival: http://www.stockholmfilmfestival.se/en/press/press-accreditation-2015 Press contacts: Dante Stjernberg, press manager Antonia Backlund, press secretary The 28th Stockholm International Film Festival, November 8-19, 2017 The Stockholm International Film Festival started in 1990 and is today one of the leading competitive film festivals in Europe. The festival takes place every year in November with more than 200 films from 70 countries. WE LOVE FILM!
08.11.2017 | Editor's blog Cat. : FESTIVALS
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