IndieLisboa’10 will have a new award: the SIGNIS Award.
SIGNIS has joined IndieLisboa and will collaborate with the 7th edition of the Festival, sponsoring a new award with the amount of 2.000€ (two thousand euros). SIGNIS prize seeks to recognize Portuguese contemporaneous films and support Portuguese cinema creation, distribution and recognition both nationally and internationally.
The SIGNIS award was established in 1947 and has been honoring countless films in more than 30 international films festivals including Cannes, Berlin and Venice. By its presence in the professional cinema world, SIGNIS contributes in a concrete way to the development of a cinema aimed towards human and spiritual values through international seminars and conferences, the organisation of post production competitions for Latin American films, assistance in production, distribution of films through its network of televisions and conservation of the film heritage.
Picture: Oasis by Chang-dong Lee, winner of the SIGNIS award at Venice Film Festival in 2002.