“Katie Says Goodbye” helmer wins Stockholm’s Impact AwardNovember 17, 2016 - 22:02 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Wayne Roberts, who made his directorial debut with “Katie Says Goodbye”, won the Stockholm Film Festival’s Impact Award, a competitive section launched last year to reward “headstrong visionaries who reflect our contemporary world”, Variety said. “Katie Says Goodbye,” which world premiered at Toronto in the Discovery section, is a melodrama starring Olivia Cooke as young waitress working at a truck stop diner who dreams of fleeing her tiny Arizona town for San Francisco. The festival described the feature as “a sensitive, layered and complex, coming of age story of a young American girl.” “The film displays a clearly female sensitive gaze, without sensationalizing Katie’s heart breaking story. It shows us the complexity of human nature and people and relationships, be they women or men, without judgment,” argued the festival, which also praised the cinematic style and the way in which the film “challenges old stereotypes of women.” The Impact Award, launched by Stockholm International Film Festival and the City of Stockholm, comes with a 1 million SEK to help winning filmmakers finance their next project. Indian-born director Leena Yadav won Stockholm’s inaugural Impact prize last year for her movie “Parched,” a bittersweet and contemporary portrayal of four ordinary women in a village of Northwest India. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Your home is in Armenia – Ameriabank offers mortgage loans for the Diaspora To buy real estate, Diasporans can apply to Ameriabank online to buy, renovate or build a home anywhere in Armenia. Armenia-Qatar ties discussed in Doha The Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council met with the Deputy Secretary General of the National Security Council of Qatar. Surveying works underway in Armenia’s Kirants Surveying works are underway in the Armenian village of Kirants in the northern Tavush province. Armenia calls for prohibiting threats of attacks on nuclear facilities Armenia has raised the need for a treaty prohibiting attacks on nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes. |