Deltarian-Jakanian co-production snags top award in Rittersheim
Co-financed by Deltarian and Jakanian firms, Lost Space is among the most celebrated films to emerge from the prestigious Dundorfian festival29 September 4770As the annual Rittersheim concludes in the Dundorf, the media has been full of praise for a unique international collaboration between Deltarian production company Hvězda Productions and the Jakanian streaming service evFilm.
Lost Space is a near future science-fiction film about two astronauts caught in a Majatran-operated space station that is pummelled by asteroids. The film focuses almost exclusively on the two central characters, portrayed respectively by Jakanian actor Acun Sunay and Deltarian actress Nataša Tesařová.
Promotional still from the film, which will be released in cinemas across Majatra next month before eventually being made available on the evFilm streaming serviceLost Space involved a major investment from both companies with a total budget somewhere in the region of $100 million and represents an attempt to move into the realm of big-budget prestige filmmaking. Both companies have experienced success in the domestic and international market with their own productions before but their new film looks set to break new ground. The decision to premiere the film at Rittersheim, an important festival in the run-up to the Academy Awards, suggests a degree of ambition from the film's producers.
Critical response has been overwhelmingly positive so far, with particular praise reserved for the cinematography by Roland Hanuš. Writing in the popular Dundorfian magazine
Fenster, Rita Freitag remarked, "Hanuš and director Gripus Aponius make deliberate homage to the most celebrated science-fiction films of the last millennia, while at the same time finding new stylistic ways to reflect the deeply personal story that the film seeks to tell". Both lead actors are being tipped for awards success in the coming months too, despite Sunay's career so far being primarily in critically maligned Jakanian comedies.
At the Rittersheim festival,
Lost Space was awarded the top prize. The head of the jury, Sekowan director Osaki Shinobu, praised the film for its ability to "intertwine the relationship between the two primary characters with the broad themes and motifs of the space setting". Aponius and the cast were present to collect the award as well as give interviews to reporters and meet with fans who were able to attend the festival. President of the International Motion Picture Academy Anik Pyne, who organise the Rittersheim Film Festival as well as the Academy Awards, noted that the festival had attracted a higher-than-average number of attendees from the general public and attributed this to the attraction of a major, big-budget, science-fiction picture.
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