THE FILMS AFTER TOMORROW: LOCARNO2020'S FIRST PROJECT REWARDS THE FUTURE
13.05.2020 An international competition, 20 films on hiatus due to the health crisis, two Pardo 2020
The Films After Tomorrow: thus begins Locarno2020 - For The Future of Films. It is an edition aiming to support independent auteur cinema, and the first project with which the Locarno Film Festival wishes to rebrand its commitment after the cancelation of Locarno73. The Festival had to give up its locations, but wouldn't do the same with its vision, and decided, alongside its partners, to be there. For the audience and the film industry, from sets to theaters. In other words, it decided to be there for cinema.
The
films at the core
The Locarno Film Festival cannot exist without films, even in a suspended,
unfinished, immobile state: these are the participants of The Films After
Tomorrow, the competition that will make itself known to audiences online
on August 5-15. This is the project around which Locarno2020 - For the Future
of Films is being built, and this experimental, multifaceted edition will
include both the old and the new. On the one hand, an existing section like the
Pardi di domani competition will live on in a previously unseen way, and
the entire Open Doors universe has effectively been paving the way for
Locarno2020 for the past 18 years. On the other hand, Locarno Pro will have new
projects on offer, and then there's The Films After Tomorrow.
The competition
The Films After Tomorrow
is Locarno2020's competition focusing on the films that came to a halt, and the
filmmakers who had to let go of ideas, crews, cameras or editing rooms.
It will focus on the film that were taking shape on national and
international sets and had to go on hiatus due to the health crisis. The Films After Tomorrow will
showcase 20 such films - 10 international, 10 Swiss - competing for various
prizes, including the two Pardo
2020 worth 70,000 Swiss francs each. The aim of that prize is
to make sure those films can be completed and reach their intended target: the
audience.
The selection
Eligible films for this selection have to be at least 70 minutes long and
intended for theatrical distribution, and their production is currently on hold
due to the lockdown, be it before shooting, on set or in the edit suite. The
Artistic Direction will look at the projects submitted
online as of now and until May 27, and select 10 international and 10 Swiss
films that will be announced June 25 and subsequently judged by the two
international juries of The Films
After Tomorrow. The Swiss part of the competition will rely on Swiss Films as an organizational and
promotional partner.
The awards
On Saturday, August 15, which would have featured the awards ceremony of the 73rd Locarno Film Festival, the juries will announce the two winners of the Pardo 2020, worth 70,000 Swiss francs and to be used to complete the films in question. Other awards will also be on offer thanks to select partners of the Locarno Film Festival. These partners, and the jury members, will be announced in the weeks to come.
The
community
In keeping with the nature and spirit of the Locarno Film Festival, The
Films After Tomorrow will also be a chance to maintain a community and keep
talking through and about cinema. The 20 competition participants will
help build an online program, on various platforms, consisting of encounters,
masterclasses and viewings aimed at the audience. In addition to discovering
the films in competition, viewers will also get to know the history and
filmography of the directors, and revisit the Festival's own history via a
selection of films from Locarno's back catalogue, all made by the competing
filmmakers.
The Films After Tomorrow is the first project of Locarno2020 - For The Future of Films. This edition will continue to unveil itself to the public and to professionals, step by step, over the next few weeks.
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