‘One other Spherical’ Wins Finest Movie At BFI London Movie Pageant – .

The 2020 BFI London Film Festival has announced its winners of the Virtual Audience Award. Thomas Vinterberg’s Mads Mikkelsen with the Danish comedy Another Round was named best film.

The awards replaced the typical prizes chosen by the jury, which did not take place this year due to the pandemic that forced most of the festival online.

The IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary was also awarded this evening. Wildfire filmmaker Cathy Brady was awarded the £ 50,000 grant to go to a first or second British filmmaker to showcase his work at the festival.

Other prizes went to Benjamin Rees The Painter And The Thief, who was named Best Documentary, Tommy Gillards Shuttlecock, who was named Best Short, and Anna West and David Callanans To Miss The Ending, who was named Best XR / Immersive Art was awarded.

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“It is a great honor for me to receive the IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary. It feels like a safe haven in a year so tumultuous for so many, and for a first-time feature filmmaker the chance to recalibrate, dream and immerse myself in the next project is an incredible gift, “commented Brady.

“Thank you to the audience at the London Film Festival for giving us this award. We are very proud to receive this from a UK audience. It’s a great honor. We’re so sad that we can’t be there, ”said Vinterberg about today’s victory.

Another round was selected for this year’s Cannes label (which was awarded in place of the canceled physical edition of the French festival) and shown in both Toronto and San Sebastian. The film hit the headlines in its native Denmark after drawing 800,000 viewers, a three-year record for a local title, despite the impact of the pandemic on cinemas. Samuel Goldwyn Films has US rights to the image.

“There was never a moment in this crazy year when we considered not hosting a BFI London Film Festival,” said LFF Director Tricia Tuttle. “We know LFF means too much to both filmmakers and audiences. How fitting that we are bringing the audience under control of the awards this year with our first Virtual LFF Audience Awards. And damn it, our audience doesn’t have good taste. “

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