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ROME 2016 Awards

Audiences at Rome awarded Captain Fantastic starring Viggo Mortensen

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- Matt Ross’ film won the only award up for grabs at the Rome Film Fest, whilst Kicks by Justin Tipping and Little Wing by Finnish filmmaker Selma Vilhunen were awarded in the Alice nella Città section

Audiences at Rome awarded Captain Fantastic starring Viggo Mortensen
Captain Fantastic by Matt Ross

This year the BNL People’s Choice Award, the only award up for grabs since the Rome-based festival became the Rome Film Fest, went to Captain Fantastic by American director Matt Ross. The film, which was shown in the Official Selection of the festival in partnership with the autonomous and parallel Alice nella Città section, features an incredible performance by Viggo Mortensen playing an unconventional father. The prize was awarded by viewers through myCicero, the official app of the Rome Film Fest, and the website of the festival. Captain Fantastic will be released in Italy on 7 December by Good Films.

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The two remaining awards of this 11th edition of the festival were presented in the Alice nella città section: the autonomous section for young audiences awarded Kicks, the debut film of American director Justin Tipping, as Best Film in the Young/Adult competition (the jury was made up of 27 teenagers aged between 14 and 19, chosen from all over Italy), while the Taodue Camera d’Oro award for Best Debut or Second Film in Alice nella Città went to Little Wing by Finnish director Selma Vilhunen. The only European film among this year’s award winners was unanimously chosen by the jury presided over by actor Matt Dillon - “for its extraordinary ability to tell a surprising coming-of-age story in which the relationships between parents and their children seem to be turned on their head; and for its ability to move you with the parallel paths that life and art force you down”.

The Rome Film Fest awards:

BNL People’s Choice Award
Captain Fantastic - Matt Ross (US)

Best Film Alice nella Città
Kicks - Justin Tipping (US)

Taodue Camera d’Oro award for Best Debut or Second Film Alice nella Città
Little Wing [+see also:
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 - Selma Vilhunen (Finland/Denmark)

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(Translated from Italian)

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