The New Zealand director Jane Campion will receive the Nations Award 2025 Award for his career, on the occasion of the event promoted in the 82nd Venice Film Festival, Wednesday 3 September in the setting of the Hotel Ca ‘Sagredo, historic residence of the doge Nicolò Sagredo, under the high patronage of the European Parliament and the Sicilian Region. The cinematographic recognition, founded in the 70s within the International Film Festival of Messina and Taormina, has already been assigned to acclaimed icons of world cinema such as Gina Lollobrigida, Woody Allen, Claudia Cardinale, F. Murray Abraham, Gérard Depardieu, Ferzan Özpetek, Daniel Brühl, Christopher Lambert, Nicola Piovani, Paolo Conte, Abel Ferrara, Vittorio Storaro, Kevin Spacey, Giancarlo Giannini and, in the last edition, Luc Besson, Emir Kusturica and Terry Gilliam.
Every year in Venice the “spin -off” of the prize – during the Film Festival – which was now in the 19th edition, takes place at the Antico Theater of Taormina in late June. The event is organized by the Nations Award Association, led by the President of the Michel Curatolo Prize in collaboration with the Venice Albergatori Association – Ava and the Ava Study Center, with the support and patronage of the Regional Department of Cultural Heritage – Department of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian identity and the patronage of the Messina Tourism Bureau and Anas, the support of Italferr – State Group and Bottega.
There will be the godmother and ambassador of the prize, Madalina Ghenea and the artistic director Marco Fallanca. Jane Campion, born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1954, is a director, screenwriter and film producer, known for her coherent poetics and attention to female themes. It is the first woman who won the golden palm in Cannes with floor lessons (1993) and won an Oscar for the best original screenplay with the same film. Among his most famous works there are also an angel at my table (1990), who earned her a silver lion in Venice, and the most recent the power of the dog (2021), for which he won the Oscar for the best direction in 2022. Jane Campion is also rewarded for his commitment as part of the “A Wave in the Ocean” project, the cinema school designed in 2022 and directed to Wellington. In fact, the projections of seven short films by as many young students are underway at the Venice exhibition. The short Lion Rock (16 ‘) of Nick Mayow and Prisca Bouchet, made in the context of A Wave in the Ocean, will be in competition in the short horizons section. The producer, the director and the protagonist of the film “6:06”, a feature film that will be presented on Friday 5 September, at the Venetian nights, section created by the days of the authors in agreement with Isola Oedipus: Lorenzo Lello Carvelli, Tekla Taidelli and the protagonist George Li (already interpreter of the sea outside) will also be awarded in the Venezian appointment of the Nations Award. the film produced by Argo Film, Traky Film and Film; Associated productions Algarve films and AIM movies will be distributed to the cinema by LSPG Popcorn. Before the award ceremony, starting at 17.30, as part of the Nations Awarda margin of the event- the usual meetings of the “Thinkingreen” talk show living room on topics related to sustainability, infrastructures and cultural heritage will be held in the presence of institutional representatives and illustrious speakers and the conference “Cultural goods and activities and organizational models and institutional solutions compared between Sicily and Veneto”. A talk will follow on environmental sustainability on “viaries and railway networks to support sustainable tourism”, produced by the Cultural Creations Association. Finally, some special awards will be delivered to Claudio Scarpa, president of Centro Studi Ava, the journalist of “Il Gazzettino” Davide Scalzotto, at the actress and influencer Ibiza Altea and to the painter Pierluigi Tolomio, who will exhibit some of his works in an exhibition dedicated to the event.