Les Arcs Film Fest Crowns Industry Winners

The 11th edition of the Les Arcs Film Festival’s Industry Village program, which highlights film projects in development and work-in-progress stage, has crowned its winners.The event, held in a French ski resort near the Swiss and Italian borders, has grown in reputation in recent years.

Among the graduates of its industry wing are the Oscar-winning Son Of Saul, the BAFTA-winning I Am Not A Witch, and the Cannes hit Girl.This year, the €50,000 Eurimages Lab Project prize went to Ekaterina Selenkina’s Figures In The Urban Landscape, from Russian producer Vladimir Nadein and Netherlands outfit Dutch Mountain Film.Elsewhere, the event’s €10,000 Titrafilm post-production award went to Gregoris Rentis’s To Sail Close To The Wind, from Greek companies Asterisk* and Byrd, with France’s Good Fortune Films.

The Alphapanda Audience Engagement Award, worth €5,000, awarded for the first time this year, went to Luàna Bajrami’s The Hill

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