Matt Dillon Lands Locarno Award; Channel 4 Order; Jury of the DocFest International Competition; James Bond Doc – Global Briefs

Matt Dillon will receive the Locarno Prize

Matt Dillon will receive the Locarno Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. The awards ceremony will be followed by a screening on Thursday 4 August in Piazza Grande pharmacy cowboy (Gus VanSant, 1989) e dead city (Matt Dillon, 2002) and Q&A with the actor on Friday 5 August at the Forum @Spazio Cinema. Dillon is best known for movies, including strangers (1983), thunder fish (1983), Useful things (John McNaughton, 1998), There is something in Mary (Bobby Farrell, Peter Farrell, 1998) and Lars von Trier The house that Jack built (2018). Previous winners of the Locarno Lifetime Achievement Award have been Harrison Ford (2011), Alain Delon (2012), Jacqueline Bisset (2013), Harvey Keitel (2016) and Dario Argento in 2021.

Channel 4 commands “Love My Face” in the Face Differences format

British broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned Glasgow-based Flabberast TV to film life-proof series. i love my face (Title of the work). Each episode will feature three people with notable differences in their faces (congenital, chronic, acquired or perceived) who will receive unique mental health support from Johnny Lancaster of the Disability Campaign. Supportive, advancement and transformational therapies are explored to help them accept or resolve differences. This is the first commission from the Channel 4 producer since Channel 4 received the discretionary award from broadcaster Emerging Indie Fund last year.

On Thursday the Sheffield DocFest will present the jury of the international competition ahead of the Festival

The jury has been announced for the Sheffield DocFest International Competition 2022, including Professor Emma Devi, whose film. the oil machine which has a world premiere at the event; Nigerian director Aik Naebue, whose new film There is no U-turn It received a special mention at the Berlinale 2022 and premiered in Sheffield, UK; And producer Raymond Fatanavirangun, co-founder of SEAFIC and consultant at Cannes Critics’ Week and at the Hong Kong and Toronto International Film Festivals. Among the nine films in competition is Nadim Mishlav’s film after Earth (Lebanon), Kim Hopkins lovers bouquet (UK) and Amiel Courtin-Wilson man on earth – Australia – 2022 – (Australia). The Sheffield DocFest kicks off on Thursday (23 June).

The James Bond themed documentary is the debut of “Another Countryman”.

Documentary film by Australian director Matthew Bauer on James Bond another compatriot open New Zealand Doctor’s Edge Festival This Wednesday (June 22). The debut film explores the different experiences of people who lived under the name of James Bond in the shadow of “The 007 Phenomenon”. Characters include a Swedish World War II 007 superfan, a New York theater director and an African American Bond charged with murder. On the 60th anniversary of the James Bond film series, and when questions are suddenly raised about the upcoming 007 movie about gender, race and identity. another compatriot “It has a great and fascinating resonance,” Bauer said.. To celebrate its 17th edition, Auckland-based Doc Edge Festival – Life Unscripted will screen over 100 feature films and shorts this year.