Manaki Brothers to honour Zsigmond, Pratt, Hannah
Cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond and Roger Pratt and actress Daryl Hannah will be honoured with special achievement awards at the 31st International Cinematographers’ Film Festival Manaki Brothers (October 16-22) in Bitola, Macedonia.
The Hungarian-born Zsigmond will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award Gold Camera 300 in recognition of his work with directors such as Robert Altman, Brian De Palma, Michael Cimino and Steven Spielberg, for whose Close Encounters of the Third Kind he won an Oscar. The festival will close with Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger [+see also:
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The Gold Camera 300 for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema will go to the UK’s Roger Pratt, who worked on, among others, Troy, Shadowlands, The End of the Affair and two Harry Potter films, and has frequently collaborated with Terry Gilliam and Mike Leigh.
US actress Daryl Hannah (Blade Runner, Wall Street, Steel Magnolias, Kill Bill Vol. 2) will receive the same award.
The competition for Golden, Silver and Bronze Camera 300 awards includes Enter the Void [+see also:
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interview: Urszula Antoniak
interview: Urszula Antoniak
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interview: Mike Leigh
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interview: Jaco Van Dormael
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In non-competitive sidebars, New Visions will feature films such as Adrienn Pal [+see also:
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Other sections will focus on Bulgarian, Israeli and Finnish cinema.
An out-of-competition screening of Milcho Manchevski’s Mothers [+see also:
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