FINALIST: Fabrique Du Cinema Awards, Italy. JURY PRESIDENT TWO-TIME ACADEMY AWARD WINNER PAUL HAGGIS

ROME, ITALY. – Fabrique Du Cinéma Awards, organized by the magazine Fabrique Du Cinéma from Rome, Italy, which defines itself as ‘the magazine of the new Italian cinema’, and whose 2018 jury is presided over by two-times Academy Award-winner Paul Haggis, has unveiled 2018 Award Finalists. There are three US-coproductions among the international selection. The only feature category where an English-spoken film has been finalist is the Best Documentary Film, where AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY, directed by Arthur Balder, most awarded film at DOC LA 2018 presented by the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute in Los Angeles, contends against three other Italian films: BEAUTIFUL THINGS by Giorgio Ferrero (Italy), which was presented at Biennale di Venezia in 2017 and has been widely awarded internationally, AS TIME GOES BY by Simone Aleandri, and SAND UNDER THE SNOW by Emilio Romeo, also two extraordinary Italian documentary films.

BEAUTIFUL THINGS, by acclaimed Italian director Giorgio Ferrero, was presented by the Biennale di Venezia, winning the ARCA Award Best Italian Film, and it went on to win the CPH:DOX Next Award in Copenhagen, and was finalist at Taipei 20th international Film Festival and Edinburg International Film Festival, among others.

Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television Paul Haggis presides over the Fabrique Du Cinéma Awards 2018 (official website announcement). In 2017 it was actor and producer Willem Dafoe who had been appointed President of the Jury, and Fabrique Awards had more than films 1300 participants.

List of finalists:

Documentary films section

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEAUTIFUL THINGS by Giorgio Ferrero (Italy)

AMERICAN MIRROR by Arthur Balder (USA)

AS TIME GOES BY by Simone Aleandri (Italy)

SAND UNDER THE SNOW by Emilio Romeo (Italy)

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