Bodo Kox Wins the Special Mention in Cannes
Bodo Kox received the special mention award in the ScriptTeast competition for his screenplay entitled The Man with the Magic Box. The main prize went to Simeon Ventislavov and Milko Lazarov for their Nanook project.
The Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast award for the Best Screenplay from Central and Eastern Europe was presented in Cannes for the 9th time. It went to Simeon Ventislavov and Milko Lazarov from Bulgaria, for their project entitled Nanook, which tells the story of a young Inuit woman, who, following years as an émigré in Germany, returns to Greenland upon hearing of her mother's illness.
The ScripTeast artistic board – which comprises members such as Sanford Lieberson, a long-time head of 20th-Century Fox and producer of The Mission and Thelma and Louise – also decided to present a special mention award to Bodo Kox, a director and script writer who has garnered numerous awards for his debut feature, Girl From the Closet. Kox has also received the Polish Film Academy award in the Discovery of the Year category (presented during the Camerimage International Film Festival), and an award for the Best Foreign Film at the Rome International Independent Film Festival.
Upon presenting the prize for The Man with the Magic Box, the ScripTeast artistic board underscored Kox's fresh approach towards storytelling as well as his style. It is the third time that the award – presented to film artists since 2007 – has gone to a Pole. In 2010, it was presented to Jacek Bławut for his script for Day of Chocolate, and in 2013 – to Bartek Konopka and Przemysław Nowakowski for their work on Niemy (The Mute). Bodo Kox is thus the third Pole to be distinguished by the ScripTeast artistic board.
11 projects from 7 different countries took part in this year's edition of the contest. ScripTeast is one of the most renowned and effective training programmes for experienced script authors – over the course of 9 years, a total of 16 films that took part in the programme have already been realised, while another 8 are in production.
The author of the idea for ScripTeast is the director and producer Dariusz Jabłoński, and the workshops are organised by the Independent Film Foundation and supported by Media Programme of the EU, Polish Film Institute, National Centre for Culture, and Apple Film Production, in cooperation with the European Film Academy, the ACE Program, Producers Network and Film New Europe.
source: Alter Ego, edited by BS
translated by Paulina Schlosser, 21/05/2015
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