‘First Zone,’ ‘Strange River,’ ‘Solomamma’ Take Top Postproduction Prizes at Les Arcs Industry Village
variety.comBen Croll Thom Lunshof’s “First Zone,” Jaume Claret Muxart’s “Strange River” and Janicke Askevold’s “Solomamma” picked up a trio of post-production prizes out of this year’s Les Arcs Film Festival Industry Village, which ran from December 14 – 17.
Capping its 16th edition, the industry event brought together 700 professionals – among them leading sales agents, festival programers, producers and distributors – for three days of collective pitches and one-and-one meetings, all with a healthy amount of skiing (and fondue) thrown in.
Winner of this year’s TitraFilm Award for $10,500 in post-production funds, “First Zone” tells a post-apocalyptic story on a more intimate register.
The film follows a rather grizzled loner as she travels across a postdiluvian vision of the Netherlands that has already been flooded for a generation.
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