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via Filmmaker magazine Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild picked up the FIPRESCI prize, given by an international jury of film critics, as the best film in the Un Certain Regard section of the main selection. Sergei Loznitsa’s In the Fog picked up the FIPRESCI prize in the Competition, while the jury gave the Director’s Fortnight prize to Rachad Djaidani’s...
Benh Zeitlin’s debut film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year and will screen in Cannes as an official selection of Un Certain Regard. Fox Searchlight won the heated bidding war for the film’s distribution (against all the major heavyweights, including IFC, Focus Features, The Weinstein Co., Sony Pictures Classics and...