“Emily,” directed by Francis O’Connor, won the Hitchcock Gold Award Saturday at the 33rd French Dinar Film Festival for British Films in western France.
The film, which also won the Audience Award, tells the life of the famous British writer “Emily Bronte”, who died at the age of 30, and highlights the suffering of these young women and their rebellious personality. Emily was played by French-British actress Emma Mackie, who also won the Hitchcock Award for Best Acting.
Celine Jones and Tom Stern’s “The Almond and the Seahorse” received the Special Jury Prize. Stern also plays Joe, who suffers from amnesia after a head injury.
A collective acting award was given to Andrew Gaynord’s “All My Friends Hate Me,” about a weird, never-ending party with friends. Among the most important actors who participated in the film with Joshua McGuire, Christopher Fairbank and Georgina Campbell.
French actor Jose Garcia chaired the Franco-British jury, which included French actresses Alice Paul, Alia Aamra and Sophia Saidi, and their compatriot, director and producer Ugo Gillan, the actor, in addition to British director Adrian Lister, who starred in Mike Nichols’ “Prime Colors”, and his fellow actor George Blagden, who starred in my hit series Versailles and the Vikings.
At the festival, which opened on Wednesday, around 30 feature films were screened, of which six took part in the competition.
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