Jamie Dack’s Sundance Winner ‘Palm Timber and Energy Strains’ Triumphs at Torino Movie Pageant

Southern Californian director Jamie Dack’s coming-of-age drama “Palm Timber and Energy Strains” was topped finest movie because the fortieth version of the Torino Movie Pageant wrapped Saturday. The award is price €18,000 ($18,967).

Dack, winner of the Sundance Movie Pageant directing award within the U.S. Dramatic part, additionally acquired Torino’s prize for finest script, shared together with her co-writer Audrey Findlay.

Based mostly on the 2018 brief film of the identical title, Dack’s movie stars Gretchen Mol, Jonathan Tucker and Lily McInerny, who was nominated for the Unbiased Spirit Award for finest breakthrough efficiency for her function as a 17-year-old who has a life altering encounter with a person twice her age.

The jury awarded “Rodeo,” the debut function from French photojournalist-turned-filmmaker Lola Quivoron, with the particular jury award (price €7,000), and the prize for finest actress to the movie’s lead Julie Ledru. The movie, which received Cannes’ 2022 Un Sure Regard Jury Prize, facilities on a younger lady who breaks into the male dominated and harmful world of underground motocross riders.

Jojo Bapteise Whiting and Ladainian Loopy Thunder scooped the prize for finest actor for his or her work in Gina Gammell and Riley Keough’s “Struggle Pony,” which received the Golden Digital camera on the Cannes Movie Pageant.

Takeshi Kogahara’s thriller “Nagisa” acquired a Particular Point out, due to “the richness and originality of his language.”

The worldwide function movie awards had been chosen by a jury made up of producer Nella Banfi, movie critic Fabio Ferzetti, producer Mike Kaplan, director Martina Parenti and Fernando E. Juan Lima, president of the Mar Del Plata Movie Pageant.

The worldwide documentary jury, made up of director Massimo D’Anolfi and producers Uljana Kim and Miguel Valverde, awarded two fundamental prizes. The most effective movie award (price €6,000) went to Sierra Pettengill’s “Riotsville, USA,” whereas João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata’s “The place Is This Road? Or With No Earlier than and After” received the particular jury award.

The Italian documentaries competitors noticed the triumph of the directing collective Santabelva for his or her function “Corpo dei giorni,” topped finest movie with a prize price €6,000; and Cecile Khindria and Vittorio Moroni’s “N’en parlons plus” acquired the particular jury award.

Lastly, the prize for finest brief (price €2,000) within the Spazio Italia strand went to Ilaria Di Carlo’s oneiric story “Sirens,” and the jury of the brand-new part Crazies, spearheaded by Lamberto Bava, awarded Michelle Garza Cervera’s horror flick “Huesera” the prize for finest movie.

Inventive director Steve Della Casa highlighted how, regardless of some “imperfections,” this 12 months’s version in the end managed to convey again giant audiences to theaters, with lengthy traces earlier than each screening.

The 2023 version of the Torino Movie Pageant will run from Nov. 24-Dec. 2.