TIFF19 has awarded Pietro Marcello’s 'Martin Eden' with its Platform Prize as the festival winds down its 2019 edition
, which Kino Lorber acquired for North America last week after its Venice Film Festival world premiere, is an adaptation of the 1909 Jack London novel about a young man trying to rise above his circumstances and become a member of the literary elite.The pic was selected to receive the $20,000 CAD prize by a jury comprised of filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian and film critic Jessica Kiang.
“A politically and philosophically provocative story told with extraordinary cinematic invention and grace, this film reaffirms a faith that is easy to lose in 2019: that the cinema we know is an iceberg with nine-tenths still remaining to be discovered,” the jury said.
TIFF will announce other winners including the Oscar-race predictive People’s Choice Award, on Sunday. Last year, eventual Best Picture winner12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, Slumdog MillionaireFestival organizers said Thursday that it will not be holding a formal awards ceremony this year, instead announcing winners via social media channels as most filmmmakers have left the city by fest’s end.
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