Goteborg — John Skoog’s “Reduit (Redoubt)” has won the 12th Goteborg Festival’s Startsladden, one of the world’s largest short film prizes, carrying a nearly Sk500,000 ($64,000) prize in cash, film equipment and services.
A hauntingly beautiful film about a man who once erected a fortress in the countryside, “Reduit” (Redoubt)” was one of eight titles that played at Goteborg’s Cinema Draken. Skoog, who trained at school in Franfurt, dubbed the win “a very brave jury choice.”
Produced by Erik Hemmendorff at Plattform, and made thanks to a scholarship of Stockholm Film Festival, Skoog’s previous short, “Shadowland,” has also been selected for February’s Berlin Festival. Shot in the vicinity of Los Angeles, “Shadowland” is a poetic take on locations that in various ways have had a prominence in early Hollywood films.
The Startsladden Audience Award went to Amanda Kernell’s painful – but hopeful – Laplander story “Northern Great...
A hauntingly beautiful film about a man who once erected a fortress in the countryside, “Reduit” (Redoubt)” was one of eight titles that played at Goteborg’s Cinema Draken. Skoog, who trained at school in Franfurt, dubbed the win “a very brave jury choice.”
Produced by Erik Hemmendorff at Plattform, and made thanks to a scholarship of Stockholm Film Festival, Skoog’s previous short, “Shadowland,” has also been selected for February’s Berlin Festival. Shot in the vicinity of Los Angeles, “Shadowland” is a poetic take on locations that in various ways have had a prominence in early Hollywood films.
The Startsladden Audience Award went to Amanda Kernell’s painful – but hopeful – Laplander story “Northern Great...
- 1/26/2015
- by Jon Asp
- Variety - Film News
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