The honour was instituted in 2021 and is given to someone capable of bringing cinema to younger viewers.
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The Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare will be presented to Gitanjali Rao, director of Bombay Rose (2019). The honour was instituted in 2021 and is given to someone capable of bringing cinema to younger viewers.
The film festival made the announcement on its website and stated that the ceremony will take place on the Piazza Grande on 8 August 2022.
A statement by the organizers read, “The Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare will be awarded to Gitanjali Rao, a director and animator whose works are marking a new path for animated storytelling by poetically blending the artistic gesture of hand drawing with new technologies. Gitanjali Rao opened the 74th Locarno Film Festival with the short film Tomorrow My Love (2021), while her latest feature, Bombay Rose, a poignant fable about the value of freedom presented at the International Critic’s Week at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, is the first Indian animated film to be released on Netflix.”
The presentation of the award will be accompanied by a screening of her short film Printed Rainbow (2006), winner of three awards at the 2006 Cannes Semaine de la Critique and later shortlisted for the 2008 Oscars.
Giona A Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, called Rao one of the most unique and original voices from the Indian continent in recent years. "To honour her with the Locarno Kids Awards la Mobiliare means rewarding the talent of an innovative and original artist whose work has come to the attention of audiences worldwide in just a few years while celebrating the best in contemporary creativity,” he said.
The 75th edition of the festival will be held from 3 to 13 August 2022.
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