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Mubi and Locarno Film Festival Partner on First Feature Prize
Mubi and the Locarno Film Festival are teaming up on a new award given to a first feature in the official selection of the Swiss fest.
The prize, called the Mubi Award – Debut Feature, “celebrates boldly distinctive visions for storytelling and the aesthetic possibilities of the medium, spotlighting the new films that will shape the future of cinema,” according to a Locarno statement. The Mubi Award – Debut Feature at Locarno will be decided by a jury made up of Moroccan director-producer Khalil Benkirane, who is head of grants at the Doha Film Institute; Finnish actor Alma Pöysti, star of Aki Kaurismäki’s Mubi-distributed hit “Fallen Leaves”; and prominent Swiss makeup designer Esmé Sciaroni, whose recent work includes Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera.” Commented Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro: “We’re very glad to be collaborating with Mubi on a new award capable of opening unprecedented avenues and potentialities for young and auteur cinema.”
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