The Jean Vigo Award goes to Eat Your Bones
- Unveiled at Cannes, the hard-hitting film by Jean-Charles Hue has been inducted into the prize list of an award that values originality and potential
It is a prize that honours the independent spirit, stylistic originality and potential of a filmmaker: the 63rd Jean Vigo Award has been bestowed upon Eat Your Bones [+see also:
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Revealed last month at the Directors’ Fortnight of the 67th Cannes Festival, Eat Your Bones is the director’s second feature, after La BM du Seigneur [+see also:
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Capricci Films currently has Pasolini by Abel Ferrara in post-production, and has recently managed the French distribution of After the Night [+see also:
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interview: Basil da Cunha
film profile] by Portuguese director Basil Da Cunha and Story of My Death [+see also:
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interview: Albert Serra
film profile] by Spaniard Albert Serra, among other titles.
Interestingly, the Short Film Jean Vigo Award 2014 went to Inupiluk by Sébastien Betbeder (Envie de Tempête Productions), a 34-minute film that won the Audience Award in the national competition at the last Clermont-Ferrand Festival.
(Translated from French)
