Anthony Dod Mantle scoops top honours at Camerimage
On Saturday, Anthony Dod Mantle picked up the Golden Frog for Best Cinematographer in official competition at the 16th Plus Camerimage Festival. The UK DoP – renowned for his work with the Dogma directors and winner of numerous prizes (including a European Film Award in 2003) for Dogville [+see also:
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The film – to be released in Poland on February 27, 2009 – retraces the misadventures of an 18-year-old orphan who lives in the slums of Mumbai and is about to scoop the huge sum of 20m rupees on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. He is only one question away from victory when the police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. This arrest is the starting point of his story, which looks at his life on the streets, his contact with local gangs and his mad love.
Cesar Charlone received the Silver Frog for his cinematography on Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles’ apocalyptic Blindness. Winner of an award at Lodz in 2003, the Uruguay-born DoP has previously worked on The Constant Gardener [+see also:
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The Bronze Frog went to Switzerland’s Rainer Klausmann for his cinematography on German director Uli Edel’s The Baader Meinhof Complex [+see also:
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In this year’s Polish DoP competition, honours went to Jacek Petrycki for his work on Kasia Adamik’s The Offsiders.
(Translated from French)
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