Son of Saul triumphs at Manaki Brothers in Bitola
- The other winners at the 36th International Cinematographers' Film Festival Manaki Brothers include Macbeth, Land and Shade, Montanha and Sivas
Son of Saul [+see also:
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film profile] DoP Mátyás Erdély has triumphed at the 36th edition of the oldest festival in the world dedicated to cinematographers, the International Cinematographers' Film Festival Manaki Brothers in Bitola, Macedonia (18-27 September), winning the main award in the official competition, the Golden Camera 300.
The Silver Camera 300 went to Adam Arkapaw for his work on Justin Kurzel's Macbeth [+see also:
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film profile], which world-premiered in the Cannes Critics’ Week and won four awards, including the Camera d'Or. The film also won the Spanish Cooperation Award at San Sebastián last week.
While Erdély has nine feature films under his belt and is best known for his work with Kornél Mundruczó, and Arkapaw has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for the TV series True Detective and Top of the Lake, and has lensed films such as Animal Kingdom and Snowtown Murders, Colombian-born Guzmán received the award for the first feature film he worked on.
Another debutant, Iran's Morteza Gheidi, received a Special Mention for the camera work on Ida Panahandeh's Nahid. The jury also highlighted the efforts of Sarajevo-born cinematographer Vladan Radović on Francesco Munzi's Black Souls [+see also:
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The jury was chaired by Ryszard Lenczewski, who has won three awards at the festival in the past, all of them for the films of Pawel Pawlikowski: the Golden Camera 300 for Last Resort in 2001, the Bronze Camera 300 for My Summer of Love [+see also:
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film profile] last year. Now, Lenczewski has received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and so did his fellow juror, Montenegro's Božidar “Bota” Nikolić, the DoP of Yugoslav classics Who's That Singing There, The Marathon Family and Balkan Spy. The jury also included Turkish writer and actor Cemal Kesal, Macedonian writer-director-producer Mitko Panov, and Toronto-based festival organiser and producer Hayet Benkara.
In the New European Cinema programme, dedicated to first and second films by European directors, the Best Cinematography Award went to Vasco Viana for his work on Montanha [+see also:
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Rams [+see also:
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In the newly established SEE Camera competition for films from South-East Europe, the Golden Manaki Award went to Sivas [+see also:
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Besides Lenczewski and Nikolić, the Golden Camera 300 Lifetime Achievement Award was also presented to Jaromír Sofr, who collaborates regularly with Jiří Menzel. Furthermore, two great European actors were honoured with the Golden Camera 300 Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Art: Bruno Ganz and Aleksey Serebryakov.
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