16/07/2007

Young British director Shane Meadows continued his collection of international feature awards on Saturday, winning the jury prize (Pari du Jury) for This is England [+see also:
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Winner in official competition at the first RomeFilmFest in October and of Best Film of the Year at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards and an award for Most Promising Newcomer (Thomas Turgoose), This is England – which also screened at the Berlinale 2007 in the "Generation 14Plus" section – is the fifth feature by the 34 year-old director.

Brought to acclaim with Small Time (1996), Meadows then went on to make TwentyFourSeven (FIPRESCI Award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands [+see also:
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This is England opens in Denmark on August 17, in Norway on August 31 and in France on October 10 (Ad Vitam).

The Paris Cinéma jury also awarded its Pari de l'Avenir to Ognjen Svilicic’s Croatian/German/Bosnian co-production Armin [+see also:
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(Translated from French)