Marking the climax to this year’s Lumière Festival, Jane Campion, the first woman filmmaker to win a Palme d’Or (sharing the award for “The Pianist” in 1993), accepted the Prix Lumière in Fra…
, the first woman filmmaker to win a Palme d’Or , accepted the Prix Lumière in France’s Lyon on Friday night from Julia Ducournau, the second woman filmmaker to pick up Cannes’ prestigious top prize.
Turning to her fellow women on stage, she added: “But I hope you guys are telling the truth because it’s really a surprise and very moving to hear from the women here what the cinema has meant and I’m really thrilled. It has been my life and it has been my pleasure. Other guests included last year’s Lumière prize recipient Luc Dardenne, who shares the award with his brother Jean-Pierre, Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher , and American photographer Nan Goldin and Nadine Labaki , who read out poems in English and French by John Keats, the poet who inspired Campion’s penultimate feature film “Bright Star.”
On the question of the place of women filmmakers in cinema, which the festival has been raising awareness about since its inception with a special section dedicated to them, Campion said to Frémaux: “Women are artists as well, every female filmmaker I know just wants to be seen first as a creative person, because it’s annoying to us to hear “a woman filmmaker” – a filmmaker is enough, I mean you don’t go around saying “a male filmmaker”… but that may come!” she quipped, to the audience’s...
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