French producer Marianne Slot, known for her collaborations with Lars von Trier, will receive the Raimondo Rezzonico Award at the 76th Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
After working with Von Trier on his 1995 film Breaking the Waves, she became his French producer. Throughout her career Slot has worked with international directors and producers including Lucrecia Martel, Lisandro Alonso, Naomi Kawase, Sergei Loznitsa and Benedikt Erlingsson, specialising in auteur features.
In 1993, she set up her production company SLOT MACHINE in Paris.
Slot will be presented with the honour on August 5 at Piazza Grande before a special screening of Benedikt Erlingsson’s 2018 film Women At War and will take part in a panel discussion the next day.
Named after the president of the Locarno Festival from 1981 to 1999, the Raimondo Rezzonico award celebrates figures who have played a major role in international production. Previous winners include Jason Blum, Gale Anne Hurd, and Ted Hope.
“Marianne Slot’s approach to film production has left a deep and lasting mark on contemporary cinema, rewriting the rules of the game for collaboration and ideation between filmmakers and producers, with her enduring preference for the singularity of the gaze and tireless defence of creative freedom,” said Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival. “At a time when cinema risks flatlining into an endless repetition of existing models, Marianne Slot leads by example, demonstrating the beauty of both freedom and risk.”
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