Ink wins Evolution Mallorca’s top international feature prize
Danny Boyle’s Ink has won the international feature prize at Spain’s Evolution Mallorca Film Festival. The fifteenth edition closed with The End of It after a programme of more than 140 films. Awards also recognised Fatherland, Club Kid and island productions, while the Made in Baleares programme brought 44 locally connected projects into the festival.
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Ink leads the international awards
Danny Boyle’s Ink has taken the international feature film prize at the Evolution Mallorca Film Festival, held on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Awards were announced as the fifteenth edition concluded on 4 November. Paweł Pawlikowski won the international feature directing award for Fatherland, while Daria D’Antonio’s work on Primavera received that competition’s cinematography prize. The festival’s closing presentation was The End of It, directed by María Martínez Bayona.[1], [2]
Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid, shown at the opening gala, won debut feature. The debut competition also rewarded Tyler-Marie Evans for directing Pretty Babies and Andrés Arochi for the cinematography of The End of It. In the international short competition, Jon Lange’s Everest won best film, Diogo Brito’s Good Morning (Some Kind of Prayer) received a special mention and Mahmoud Assi won cinematography for Khufu.[1]
Island productions receive their own prizes
The Made in Baleares strand, dedicated to projects connected with the Balearic Islands, recognised Marine Auclair March’s Gamberra as best short film. Simón García also received the strand’s short cinematography award for the same work. Documentary winners included Amanda Sans Pantling’s Miss Jobson in the international feature category and Amanda de Godoi’s La Metro among international shorts. Miguel Eek’s Amílcar and Jordi Nadal Perelló’s Utopus won the Balearic feature and short documentary prizes respectively.[1]
More than 140 films in the programme
The programme contained more than 140 films. Founder and director Sandra Lipski said attendance exceeded 10,000, with visitors from more than 23 countries and almost 400 filmmakers. Made in Baleares encompassed 44 island-connected projects, including screenplay competition entries. Cinematographer Matthew Libatique, director Edward Berger and actors Diane Kruger and Iris Berben received career honours. The industry programme included cinematography workshops and conversations about co-production, distribution, women’s leadership and sustainability.[1]
Titus Gust and actor Maria Drăguș judged international features. The debut feature jury was chaired by Spanish actor and producer Marc Clotet, joined by cinematographer Dani Sánchez López and actor Neus Cortés. These panels assessed the festival’s separate feature competitions.[1]
