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Marathon Lav Diaz film wins Golden Leopard at Locarno
(Updated 1:54 p.m., August 18, 2014) GENEVA - Lav Diaz's five-and-a-half-hour film "Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon" scooped the coveted Golden Leopard prize at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland on Saturday.
Clocking in at 338 minutes, the black-and-white film from director Lav Diaz beat 16 other films to the festival's top prize, the organizers said in a statement.
"Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon" recounts the strange events that befall an isolated village in the Philippines in 1972 during the era of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, when brutal militias roamed the countryside.
According to a press release from the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), Diaz told the press at Locarno, “I want to dedicate this to my father. He brought me Cinema. He’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me. For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle. And then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work; to Matías Piñeiro, and to the makers of all the other film in the competition.”
Asked if his win is the victory of "slow cinema" over "fast cinema," Diaz replied, “Everything is Cinema for me, so I don’t want to label things.”
The prize comes with SFr90,000 (about US$100,000) for the director and the producer.
Now in its 67th year, the Locarno festival takes place every summer in the picturesque Swiss town on the shores of Lake Maggiore.
The runner-up Special Jury Prize went to "Listen up Philip" by US director Alex Ross Perry. Portugal's Pedro Costa won best director for "Cavalo Dinheiro" ("Horse Money").
There were also awards for actor Artem Bystrov for his part in the Russian film "Durak" ("The Fool") and French actress Ariane Labed for "Fidelio (the Odyssey of Alice)". — Agence France-Presse
Clocking in at 338 minutes, the black-and-white film from director Lav Diaz beat 16 other films to the festival's top prize, the organizers said in a statement.
Lav Diaz accepting his award at Locarno. Photo from Film Development Council of the Philippines
According to a press release from the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), Diaz told the press at Locarno, “I want to dedicate this to my father. He brought me Cinema. He’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me. For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle. And then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work; to Matías Piñeiro, and to the makers of all the other film in the competition.”
Asked if his win is the victory of "slow cinema" over "fast cinema," Diaz replied, “Everything is Cinema for me, so I don’t want to label things.”
The prize comes with SFr90,000 (about US$100,000) for the director and the producer.
Now in its 67th year, the Locarno festival takes place every summer in the picturesque Swiss town on the shores of Lake Maggiore.
The runner-up Special Jury Prize went to "Listen up Philip" by US director Alex Ross Perry. Portugal's Pedro Costa won best director for "Cavalo Dinheiro" ("Horse Money").
There were also awards for actor Artem Bystrov for his part in the Russian film "Durak" ("The Fool") and French actress Ariane Labed for "Fidelio (the Odyssey of Alice)". — Agence France-Presse
