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Shelter strikes twice at Annecy

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Directed by Marco Simon Puccioni, Shelter [+see also:
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dominated competition at the 25th Annecy Italian Film Festival, where this weekend it won both the festival’s Grand Prize and the Best Actress award (Antonia Liskova).

Also featuring Maria De Medeiros, the film – which screened at the 2007 Berlinale Panorama (see article) – was produced by Intel Film in co-production with French outfit Adésif and with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture and RAI Cinema.

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Sold internationally by French sales agent Wide Management, it will be distributed in 2008 in France by Epicentre.

Other winners were Mohsen Melliti’s Io, l’altro (Special Jury Prize), which has been selected in the New Cinema Network at the upcoming RomeFilmFest, and David Coco, who was named Best Actor for his role in Stefano Incerti’s L’uomo di vetro [+see also:
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(see news). Sales on Incerti’s film are being handled by Germany’s Beta Film.

The Audience Award went to Roberto Cimpanelli’s Three on the Road, while the CICAE (International Confederation of Arthouse and Experimental Cinemas) jury honoured Salvatore Maira’s Valzer [+see also:
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(see article).

Lastly, the traditional Sergio Leone Prize awarded by the festival this year crowned Gianni Zanasi for his comedy Don’t Think About It [+see also:
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, highly acclaimed at Venice and sold to several territories by French outfit Pyramide International.

This edition also featured a tribute to Pierre Todeschini, the emblematic director general whose death on August 7 could have jeopardized the future of an event that has always succeeded in presenting a wide-ranging selection of Italian productions and attracting leading Italian industry professionals to the French town.

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(Translated from French)

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