Roy Anderon to sit as jury head at RapidLion

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Roy Andersson to sit as jury head at RapidLion --

Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:17

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Award winning director, Roy Andersson, will sit as a jury head at the inaugural RapidLion The South African International Film Festival in 2016. The Swedish born filmmaker s unconventional cinematic technique has earned him several prestigious awards, making him an iconic cinema great. His films are renowned for their humanistic approach to socio-political commentary.

In 1970, Anderssons first film, A Swedish Love Story, took the world by storm, the film was awarded four prizes at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival. After his second film, Gillap, in 1975, Andersson took a 25-year break from cinema and directed commercials. Soon after he established Studio 24, an independent film company and studio for feature films, short films and commercials.

In 2000, he returned to feature filmmaking with his movie, Songs from the Second Floor, which won the coveted Cannes Jury Prize at the 53rd Cannes Film Festival in 2000. His latest film, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, won a Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014.

Andersson will sit as the head of a jury that will select the winning feature length films at the festival, including the Best RapidLion Film Overall. The festival will also curate an exhibition of Andersson s films and he will be available to introduce his films at the screenings.

Local filmmakers will be given an opportunity to attend a master class given by Andersson during the festival. RapidLion will also arrange a press briefing where Andersson will discuss his films and be available for questions.

According to the RapidLion website, the festival programme will premiere the world s highest number of films by filmmakers who were either born in Africa or are members of the African diaspora.

There will be room for all genres and lengths of films in the different festival sections: Feature films will vie for the RapidLion in the In-Competition section of the festival. Shorts will afford African film students from any film school in the world to compete for the RapidLion for Best Short Film. Kindercinema will be curated to get parents to bring their children to the festival. There will be films from the rest of the world through the BRICS section, which will see films from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa compete for the RapidLion for Best of BRICS. In-The-Spotlight will showcase a body of work from an international cinema great. Homage will comprise the work of the recipient of The Lionel Ngakane Lifetime Achievement Award, given to a film practitioner who has contributed greatly to the advancement of African cinema. Through Heritage, RapidLion provides a platform for the screening of South African cinema of yesteryear. Aspects will afford cinema lovers, filmmakers and other film industry players the opportunity to rub shoulders, share ideas, teach and learn from each other.

The inaugural RapidLion Film Festival will take place in March 2016 at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg.

For more information or to submit an entry, visit the RapidLion website.

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