‘I Origins’ stands as best movie of 47 Film Festival … – Reuters

‘The Babadook’ and ‘Cub’ Special Jury Award and Best Direction, respectively

Sitges (Barcelona), 11 Oct (IRIN) –

The film ‘I Origins’ by Mike Cahill, has won Saturday’s Best Picture Award 47 International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia held in Sitges (Barcelona), as reported at a press conference the festival director Angel Sala.

Although ‘I Origins’ was the film on which the jury had more discussions, emphasized that “dares to do very big questions and mix with love, science and controversial issues, “explained one of its members, Charles de Lauzirika, who confessed that this was his favorite movie.

You have exalted that is very well run and, also includes great performances and philosophical issues, and although there issues that can generate discussion, are irrelevant if you consider the quality of the performances. “It was the best and most beautiful”

Han served on the jury for the Official Section 47 Sitges Fantastic Sebastian Aloi, Charles de Lauzirika, Blake Ethridge, Pablo Helman and Alejo Cuervo, who has hinted that “the discussion for this film was difficult,” while Aloi has remarked that there were 40 . movies very high level

“Looking full: production carry weight, the characters have weight music. It’s hard to find all that, “Helman contributed.

Hall explained that the festival is about 58,000 tickets sold, the same as last year, which shows that the public is very accurate, with figures record: “Today we know that the minute audience reactions in the room, Twitter or Facebook is the year that people have left happier level of movies,” said

. “I am pleased that the public has found that quality, I think it’s a good sign,” said Hall, who has also held a variety of movies scheduled, which is reflected in the record, with science fiction low intensity, terror that breaks the mold and play a young film actors and directors new batch.

The Special Jury Prize was for ‘The Babadook’ by Jennifer Kent, a Gothic classic that does not depend on gore , is a “very scary movie and has a lot of class,” expressed, while the Best Director Award for Natural Gas –patrocinado Fenosa– has been for ‘Cub’, Jonas Govaerts, whose film is very well run and manages to catch the viewer into the story from beginning to end, and the power of the soundtrack, have argued.

Awards for Best Actor –patrocinado Autolica-Mercedes Benz– have Nathan Phillips was for the film ‘These Final hours’ Zak Hilditch, Koji Yakusho and by The World of Kanako’ by Tetsuya Nakashima; while in the case of these, the Awards for Best Actress are Essie Davis for her role in ‘The Babadook’ by Jennifer Kent, and also to Julianne Moore for her role in ‘Maps to the stars’ by David Cronenberg.

“It is an important decision that needs to be done,” said juror Paul Helman, who has revealed that they decided to make a tie awards actors.

festival has been considered as Best Screenplay ‘Young Ones’, Jake Palltrow; Best Cinematography for the film ‘Jamie Marks is dead’ by Carter Smith; Best Special for ‘The Signal’ by William Eubank, Effects and Best Short –patrocinado by Fotgramas– has been for ‘Oscar Desafinado’ Mikel Alvariños, a short film by Spanish nationality.

Hall explained that before the great number of films of the festival, have earned a special mention Productions’ Pos that, “Sam; ‘What we do in the shadows’, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement; ‘A girl walks home alone at night’, Lily Ann Amirpour, and ‘Spring’ by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.

Among the awards given by the public, the Grand Prix du Public –patrocinado by ‘El Periódico de Catalunya’ – has been to ‘What we do in the shadows’, Taika Waititi and Jemanine Clement, and the awards voted by the viewers of the contest have been in the Official Selection Orbit for ‘Hyena’, Gerard Johnson for Best Picture; ‘Cold in July’ by Jim Mickle as Best Director, and special mention to ’71′ by Yann Demange.