Best VR Work: THE KEY by Céline Tricart (USA)
Best VR Interactive Content: A LINHA by Ricardo Laganaro (Brazil)
Best VR Story/Linear Content: DAUGHTERS OF CHIBOK by Joel Kachi Benson (Nigeria)
OTHER PRIZES?
As with other massive festivals there are a whole slew of prizes awarded that aren't "official" to the festival but given out by various other associations. There's a lot to try to make sense of with little context but a few things stand out.
Martin Eden
- Martin Eden, the Italian film (which is also playing at TIFF) is a popular title so we wonder if it'll be the Italian submission this year. In addition to prizes for the film itself one more craft specific organization gave it prizes for "stage combat" and "costume design"
- The new Polanski true story drama An Officer and a Spy (also known as "J'Accuse") which stars Louis Garrel as the wrongly conviced French captain Alfred Dreyfus (the role which won Joseph Schildkraut the Oscar in 1937's Best Picture winner The Life of Emile Zola), wasn't just popular with the main competition jury at Venice. Critics groups also really responded to it with honors.
Valeria Golino at one of her three premieres
- Valeria Golino is having a good year. She had a brief in-demand moment in Hollywood in the late 1980s / early 90s of course (Rain Man, Big Top Pee Wee, etcetera) but since then she's mostly acted in Italian films and turned to directing as well. But not only does she appear in a key role in the French festival sensation Portrait of a Lady on Fire this year but she also took a collective Best Actress Prize for her performances in three new Italian films at Venice this year including the new film by Costa-Gavras, Adults in the Room.
- Corpus Christi, which we'd heard some buzz about particularly in association with its young leading actor, continues to win various kudos while another film we hadn't heard of prior to Venice called All This Victory by Ahmad Gossein was also popular with critics.