Future Film Festival Digital Award at 65th Venice Film Festival
Posted on 05/09/2008 in Comunicati Stampa
Since 1999 Future Film Festival awards with the Future Film Festival Digital Award the best movie in animation or with special effects presented at the Venice Film Festival. The prize is assigned for the tecnical quality and for the creative and original use of the animation or visual effects.The Future Film Festival Digital Award 2008has been awarded toTHE SKY CRAWLERS by Mamoru Oshii, Japan “for the important digital employing into the movie that mixes the high quality of the typical Japanese animation and the live-action scenes realism.In particular the flying battles of the Oshii’s movie give a hyperrealistic representation of the war thanks to the refined digital animation”.Special mention to:PONYO ON THE CLIFF BY THE SEA (GAKE NO UE NO PONYO) by Hayao Miyazaki, Japan “for the high artistic and expressive quality of animation able to give form to wonderful imagination of the worldwide cinema master”.International journalists took part in the Future Film Festival Digital Award 2008’s jury: Luca Barnabè – CiakStefano Della Casa – RaiSatRocco Giurato – 35mmAlessandro De Simone – Cult FictionTitta Fiore – Il MattinoMaria Pia Fusco – La RepubblicaEric J. Lyman – Hollywood ReporterGiuseppina Manin – Corriere della SeraTeresa Marchesi – Rai Tg3Lee Marshall – Screen InternationalAnna Maria Pasetti – ClassStefano Radice – Box OfficeMarina Sanna – Rivista del Cinematografo / Cinematografo.itRoberto Silvestri – Il ManifestoBoris Sollazzo – LiberazioneDario Zonta - Il Mucchio Selvaggio.The winners of the previous editions: 2007 – Redacted by Brian De Palma, 2006 – Inland Empire by David Lynch, 2005 –Corpse Bride by Tim Burton, 2004 – Collateral by Michael Mann, 2003 – Zatoichi by Takeshi Kitano, 2002 – Blood Work by Clint Eastwood and special mention to My name is Tanino by Paolo Virzì, 2001 – A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg and special mention to L’Anglaise e le Duc by Eric Rohmer, 2000 – Time and Tide by Tsui Hark and special mention to Denti by Gabriele Salvatores, 1999 – Hakuchi: the Innocent by Makoto Tezka and special mention to David Fincher Fight Club by David Fincher
