Canadian director Ariane Louis-Seize’s comedy-drama Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person has scooped the Director’s Award at Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori.
The jury was composed of young European cinephiles from the 27 Times Cinema program, a joint initiative between the GdA, the European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award and Europa Cinemas.
It was presided over by Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues and coordinated by Karlovy Vary International Film Festival director Karel Och.
The Director’s Award is GdA’s top award and carries a cash prize of €20,000, to be split equally between the filmmaker and the film’s international distributor, to promote its circulation.
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