Mihaileanu, Best Screenwriter 2003
The French director of Romanian origins, Radu Mihaileanu, has won the 2003 Grand Prize for Best Screenplay with the work Va, vis, deviens (co-writen with Alain-Michel Blanc). The prize is awarded by the Centre National de la Cinématographie.
The jury was led by the actress Marie Gillain, and it also gave a Special Mention to the screenplay for Dunia by the French-Lebanese director Jocelyne Saab.
Radu Mihaileanu became well known with the film Train of Life, which won many international awards, including the Fipresci Prize for the Best First Work at the 1998 Venice Film Festival, the David di Donatello award for Best Foreign Film in '99 and finally the Public Prize at the Sundance Festival in the same year. The 2003 Grand Prize for Best Screenplay is for €5,000, and will help the author-director to prepare his next film. Va, vis et deviens is the story of an Ethiopian child whose mother tries to save him from the famine by pretending he’s Jewish and entrusting him into the care of a Sephardi family in Tel Aviv.
(Translated from French)
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