Meet the winner and nominees in Stockholm Impact Award
Stockholm Impact Award is one of the world’s biggest film prizes and will be handed out by the festival in collaboration with The City of Stockholm for the second time.
The purpose of the prize is to highlight the possibility of film to create change and debate through the depiction of contemporary subjects. The prize amount of 1 million SEK will help the winner in the development of new film projects. The winner will also receive an award designed by the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei.
- I am very glad that Stockholm and Stockholm Film Festival for the second year hands out Stockholm Impact Award. The prize strengthens Stockholm as an attractive film city. My clear ambition is that more filmmakers use Stockholm as their film location. That creates jobs, provides income to the city and business and markets Stockholm’s place in the world, says Karin Wanngård (s), Mayor of Stockholm.
Press conference and announcement of 2016’s winner
Stockholm International Film Festival and The City of Stockholm instituted the prize Stockholm Impact Award last year and 2015’s winner was the Indian director Leena Yadav for her film Parched. Karin Wanngård (s) announces the winner of this year’s Stockholm Impact Award during the press conference at Kulturhuset. Both Karin and the winner will be available for interview.
Time and place: Wednesday November 16 at 2pm at Kulturhuset Soppteatern, Drottninggatan 34.
The seminar Impact: The Politics of Storytelling
Stockholm International Film Festival arranges an Impact Seminar where the Politics of Storytelling will be debated. We will discuss how, by highlighting issues such as class, religion, civil rights, freedom of speech, immigration and war crime, a film impacts the society it portrays.
Time and place: Wednesday November 16 at 11am at Bio Mauritz, Filmhuset.
The nominees for Stockholm Impact Award 2016 are:
Maria Govan for Play The Devil
Hussein Hassan for The Dark Wind
Wayne Roberts for Katie Says Goodbye
Adrian Sitaru for The Fixer
Yao Tian for 500M800M
Roland Vranik for The Citizen
Press contact
Susanne Wallin, press manager
Tel: +468-677 50 25 / +4673-513 31 36
press@stockholmfilmfestival.se
Andreas Jonsson, press assistant
Tel: +468-677 50 25 / +4672-700 80 46
pressassistent@stockholmfilmfestival.se
Press contact City of Stockholm:
Karin Wanngård: contact via Ömer Oguz
Tel: +4676-1229199
omer.oguz@stockholm.se
The 27th Stockholm International Film Festival, November 9-20, 2016
The Stockholm International Film Festival started in 1990 and is today one of the leading competitive film festivals in Europe. The festival takes place every year in November with more than 200 films from more than 60 countries.
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