Festival Winners
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Festival Winners
The France 3/Odissea documentary A Girl Against the Mafia took top honors — the Golden Rembrandt Award — at the 1998 International Widescreen Festival Le Nombre d'Or Awards, which were held in Amsterdam last September. Produced by the Palermo, Italy-based Marco Amenta for the French Channel FR3, A Girl Against the Mafia was inspired by the diaries of Rita Atria, a heroic 17-year-old girl murdered for rebelling against the infamous Sicilian organized crime syndicate. The Silver Rembrandt prize went to the British company Green Umbrella for their co-production with the BBC Natural History Unit of The Temple Troop, a documentary about a family of macaque monkeys who inhabit the forest around a ruined city in Sri Lanka.
The jury was chaired by Stefan Felsenthanl, the former head of theater and music of ZDF. Also seated on the jury were director of photography Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC, British drama producer Michael Wearing, Italian producer Andrea Andermann, Japanese producer Aki Yamada, Irish producer/executive Lelia Doolan and German sound expert Leo Danilenko.
Le Nombre d'Or Awards, IBC Office, Savoy Place, London, England, WC2R OBL. Phone: 44-171-344-5470; fax: 44-171-240-8830; e-mail: [email protected].