01/03/2012 - This year’s LUX Prize is open for submissions, and has announced a selection committee to be headed by director Radu Mihaileanu

After last’s November’s victory for The Snows of Kilimanjaro [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Robert Guédiguian
interview: Robert Guédiguian
film profile] by French director Robert Guédiguian, the European Parliament’s LUX Film Prize is already preparing for this year’s edition.

Submissions are open until March 22, during which time applicants should send their films, making sure that they conform to the elegibility criteria for the prize. Those interested should fill in a form available on the prize’s website, and send it in with a DVD to:

European Parliament
Marisella Rossetti
Rue Wiertz 60
1047 Brussels
Belgium

Director Radu Mihaileanu (pictured - The Source [+see also:
trailer
film profile]) is to head the prize's selection panel this year, while beside him will be: Fatima Djoumer (Europa Cinemas), French producer Marc Bordure, the former director of the Gijón Film Festival José Luis Cienfuegos, the co-director of the European Film Market at the Berlinale Catherine Buresi, Greek film critic Michel Demopoulos, Belgian film distributor Stéphane de Potter (Cinéart), director of the European Film Academy Marion Döring, Polish distributor Jakub Duszynski (Gutek Films), the head of the education department at the Swedish Film Institute Per Ericsson, German screenwriter and critic Paul Peter Huth, the editor of the British magazine Sight & Sound Nick James, the secretary general of the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes Christophe Leparc, the artistic director of the Karlovy Vary Festival Karel Och, Italian distributor Georgette Ranucci (Lucky Red), the director of the Sofia Film Festival Mira Staleva, and Hungarian audiovisual sector expert Éva Vezer.

Every year the LUX Prize covers the cost of subtitles for the winning film in the 23 official languages of the European Union, including an adaptation of the original version for people with hearing and seeing disabilities, and provides a digital or 35 mm copy for each of the EU's 27 member states.

The previous winners of this prize are The Edge of Heaven [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fatih Akin
interview: Klaus Maeck
film profile] (2007) by Fatih Akin, Lorna’s Silence [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Arta Dobroshi
interview: Arta Dobroshi
interview: Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne
interview: Olivier Bronckart
film profile] (2008) by Jean-Pierre y Luc Dardenne, Welcome [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Philippe Lioret
film profile] (2009) by Philippe Lioret, When We Leave [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Feo Aladag
interview: Feo Aladag
film profile] (2010) by Feo Aladag, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011) by Robert Guediguian.