VERMIGLIO by Maura Delpero, presented at the Venice Gap-Financing Market in 2023, has been awarded at the closing ceremony of the 81. Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2024, held at Palazzo del Cinema.
The Jury, chaired by Isabelle Huppert, awarded the SILVER LION – GRAND JURY PRIZE to the film, an Italian, French, Belgian co-production (Cinedora , Charades Productions, Versus Production), which is the second feature from the Italian director Maura Delpero.
In her speech, Delpero underlined the importance of public funds and financing from across European countries, without which the project would not have come to life.
Vermiglio, the story of a young woman, is set at the end of World War II in a remote mountain valley of the Trentino region and is mostly filmed in dialect.
In the Venice Immersive section IMPULSE: PLAYING WITH REALITY by Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla (United Kingdom, France), and presented at the Venice Gap-Financing Market in 2023, took the VENICE IMMERSIVE ACHIEVEMENT PRIZE.
Aside from Vermiglio, an array of titles supported by the Venice Production Bridge at past editions, have been presented at this year's Venice International Film Festival.
Stranger Eyes by Yeo Siew Hua (VGFM 2022) was presented in the main international competition Venezia 81, as well as Happyend by Neo Sora (VGFM 2023) premiered in the Orizzonti competition.
No less than three titles supported through the Final Cut in Venice programme were presented on the big screen across different sections of the Venice International Film Festival.
The fiction film Happy Holidays by the Palestinian Scandar Copti and Carissa by the South Africans Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar in the Orizzonti competition, as well as the documentary Sudan, When Poems Fall Apart by Hind Meddeb was presented at the Giornate degli Autori.
The Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay went to Scandar Copti for HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
From a previous edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market, the adaptation of the novel M. Il figlio del secolo. directed by Joe Wright and produced by Sky Studios, The Apartment and Pathé, as an 8-part series, has been presented Out of Competition at the 81. Venice International Film Festival.
The Venice Production Bridge congratulates all of the filmmakers who returned to the Venice screens with their completed films.
