The jury, composed by Andrette Lo Conte, Andrea Italia, Giorgio Gucci, Luigi Mascolo, Marco Caberlotto, Orazio Guarino, Simone Bracci and Gloria Puppi, has voted the winners of the second edition of Il Varco Film Fund & Screenplay awards as follows.
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCREENPLAY
Sleeping Beauty
by Brunella Filí, Antonella Gaeta and Giuliana Altamura
For making full use of one of cinema’s most powerful weapons: the gaze, which in this text becomes a conduit between love and death.
BEST ITALIAN FEATURE SCREENPLAY
Elixir
by Nicholas Di Valerio
For plunging us into the paranoia of a character who resembles the very paranoia of the production system of contemporary cinema
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BEST ITALIAN SHORT SCREENPLAY
Acquapark
by Ilaria Pascazio and Gloria Mottarelli
For taking us to a small world that we all often return to in our memories: to the moment when something tells us we won’t be children forever.
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCREENPLAY
Witness 26
by Michele Dirk Nicklaus Gentile
For telling a dramatic and real story that is intertwined with history and gives us the perspective of a former Congolese child soldier, now a mother and witness in a trial against her torturers.