2009 LUX Prize Competition unveiled in Venice, next Friday 11 September.
Doris PACK, President of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament, and Paolo BARATTA, President of La Biennale di Venezia, along with Fatih AKIN and Klaus MAECK, director and co-producer of Auf der anderen Seite, laureate of the LUX Prize 2007, will unveil the three contending films for the LUX Prize 2009.
The authors of the films concerned will attend the press conference.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Palazzo del Casinò, Lido di Venezia, 11.09.2009, 16.00
Since 2007, the LUX Prize is a tangible symbol of the support brought by the European Parliament to the European film industry and its great, relentless creativity. The LUX Prize aims at spotlighting the wealth and the diversity that characterize European cinema by selecting films which deal, in different ways, with European issues –especially, as European citizens, what makes us think, divides us or brings us closer to each other. To this end, the LUX Prize 2009 laureate will benefit from the financial support of the European Parliament consisting in:
- subtitling in the European Union’s 23 official languages, including the adaptation of the original version for visually- or hearing-impaired people;
- for each EU member state, producing a 35 mm print or supporting the DVD release.
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