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Jane Campion To Receive Locarno’s Honorary Pardo d’Onore Manor Award

Jane Campion will be presented with the festival’s honorary Pardo d’Onore Manor Award on August 16.

“With her directorial debut, Sweetie(1989), Jane Campion asserted herself from the start as a distinctive and unmistakable voice,” Giona A. Nazzaro, Locarno Artistic Director said this morning announcing the honor. Jane Campion’s artistic freedom and willingness to take risks to find new and deeper insights into the richness and complexities of human experience make her an unparalleled point of reference for anybody who thinks of film as an instrument of expression and emancipation. Past recipients of the Leopard of Honor have included Manoel de Oliveira, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Agnès Varda, Michael Cimino, Marco Bellocchio, John Waters and Kelly Reichardt.

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