Adam Elliot’s stop-motion animation Memoir Of A Snail has gained the Finest Movie Award in Official Competitors on the 68th BFI London Movie Competition (LFF).
Australian director Elliot’s second feature-length animation is a narrative of a melancholic girl – voiced by Sarah Snook – who’s a hoarder of snails, romance novels and guinea pigs.
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The movie had its world premiere in competitors at Annecy in June the place it additionally gained the highest prize, and went on to open Melbourne movie pageant and win awards at festivals in Sitges and Ottawa. Anton and Charades deal with worldwide gross sales, having secured a slew of offers earlier this yr together with IFC Movies for the US.
The Official Competitors jury praised “a singular achievement in filmmaking. Emotionally resonant and continually stunning, Memoir tackles pertinent points reminiscent of bullying, loneliness and grief head-on, creating an important and common dialogue in a manner that solely animation can.” It’s the first animated movie to obtain the Finest Movie prize since its introduction for the 2009 pageant.
Rungano Nyoni’s On Turning into a Guinea Fowl, centring on a sexual predator in a close-knit Zambian neighborhood, obtained a particular point out.
Laura Carreira’s UK debut On Falling continued a profitable pageant run by taking the LFF Sutherland Award for Finest First Characteristic, for its portrait of a younger Portuguese warehouse worker in Scotland. The jury credited “a richly-layered portrait of a world ruled by company revenue motive, as seen by way of the story of an immigrant girl whose alienation we really feel deeply, advised with masterful cinematic precision and understated, lived-in performances.”
Carreira gained the Finest Director award for the movie at San Sebastian final month, following its launch at Toronto. Conic acquired UK-Eire rights on the movie earlier this week, as considered one of a sequence of worldwide gross sales.
The Grierson Award for Finest Documentary went to Cecile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson’s UK title Mom Vera, a few younger Orthodox nun who should confront her previous and face her wishes. The Documentary jury famous that “the stability of aesthetic magnificence and emotional depth makes Mom Vera a robust meditation on private progress and resilience.” It’s produced by Laura Shacham for She Makes Productions.
Palestine was represented among the many LFF winners for a second consecutive yr, within the form of Rehab Nazzal’s Finest Quick Movie winner Vibrations From Gaza, a documentary depicting the expertise of Palestinian Deaf youngsters within the territory beneath siege from Israeli army assaults.
Voting for 3 viewers awards in Finest Narrative Characteristic, Finest Documentary Characteristic and Finest Quick Movie is underway on the BFI web site, closing at 23.59 BST on Wednesday, October 23 and introduced on the finish of the month.
The pageant closes with the European premiere of Morgan Neville’s Piece By Piece, a Lego animation in regards to the lifetime of music famous person Pharrell Williams, this night (Sunday, October 20).
BFI London Movie Competition 2024 winners
Official Competitors Finest Movie Award – Memoir Of A Snail, dir. Adam Elliot
Particular point out – On Turning into a Guinea Fowl, dir. Rungano Nyoni
Sutherland Award for Finest First Characteristic – On Falling, dir. Laura Carreira
Particular point out – Olivia & The Clouds, dir. Tomás Pichardo Espaillat
Grierson Award for Finest Documentary – Mom Vera, dirs. Cecile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson
Particular point out – The Shadow Students, dir. Eloise King
Finest Quick Movie – Vibrations From Gaza, dir. Rehab Nazzal
Particular point out – Dragfox, dir. Lisa Ott
