The awarding of festival prizes was held at 8:30 this evening. The Signis Award for best film in the Infinity Film Festival went to Catarina Ruivo’s debut film “Andrè Valente”. During the ceremony I was given the honor to hand out the award.
“André Valente” is a film about an eight-year old Portuguese boy who has experienced quite a number of excruciating separations – first from his father Joao, then from his girl friend Susanna, and from his Russian friend Nicolai. At some point, André also became emotionally estranged from his mother when she began a clandestine relationship with a married man. In carefully crafted scenes, Catarina Ruivo, the young director of this debut film, innovatively portrayed human fragility in the face of marital unfaithfulness and painful goodbyes. Yet it has also shown us the courage of a vulnerable child and his mother to find strength and love in each other in order for them to go in life. In the end, the film tells us that some friendships come and go but the love between mother and child will always endure no matter what.
After the awarding ceremonies we had a gala dinner.
The red wine served was a Roero 2003 and the vino bianco was an Arneis 2003. The appetizer was Tagliata di Filleto al Gorgonzola.
As primo piatto we had Risotto Alle Punte di Asparagi. The main course was Brasato Al Barolo.
The dessert was Sfogliata di Fragole. And afterwards we each had a cup of espresso.
What really made the evening memorable was the presence of the people who became my friends – Silvia and Paolo. Silvia was in charge of the accommodations, among other loads of things. Paolo was the president of the Infinity Film Festival.
Seated next to me at the dinner table was Arunas Stoskus, a Lithuanian film producer. And the last pic just shows how happy I was during the festival.
…well, a short but a concise story of what you’ve done for the day…and i should say…what an interesting day! and it’s only “one day in your life”…most of us here,doesn’t even have a chance to experience what you had experience with all the years of our life’s experiences put together(pity..aaaaahhhhhh)…well,as they say, certain people, do get the chance to go up on stage,and the rest of us get the chance to clap our hands…that’s life…AM HAPPY FOR YOU…CONGRATULATIONS,and i wish you have more of this experiences to come…
…by the way,i forgot to ask…..you really look happy on that last foto entry of yours “when ……happy during the festival”, i wonder, was that taken before or after the festival?…you don’t look just happy…but extremely happy …i wonder why ?….
pads, daan pa ko duna jud hulagway sa pagkaon nga imong na describe sa imong previous nga post oi, didto pa gani kuyawan ko basin wala nimo madala imong cam, pero ikaw na gud na he he he
babay usa ko kay isulod na raba sa container ning akong PC nya putlon na pud ang DSL kay lupad na mi manila kay naa koy paabuton didto nga linux installer ug kape
Gabitbit gyud intawon ko kanunay sa akong cam, pero wala nako ma-post ang mga pics samtang didto pa ko sa Alba kay nakalimtan nakog dala ang USB cable para maconnect ang cam sa computer. Pag-amping sa inyong pagbalhin, Bambit.
CONGRATULATIONS!
WOW! ang S naman…lipay sad ko…cgi padayon ha? Keep up the good work! Walay atrasay…palaging avanti!
hi Stephen, suya jud ana imo pose da! i think i’m going to try it sometime, kanang bag-o na akong digi cam…;-)
Nice photographs n0y!
So looking forward to seeing you before this year ends.
Pag-amping kanunay!