Element pictures co-production ‘Essential Killing’ has won the Golden Lion for best feature film and nabbed four other prizes including awards for best directing and best cinematography at the 36th annual Polish Film Festival in Gdynia which was held from June 6th-11th.
The prizes awarded to thriller ‘Essential Killing’ at the festival were to Jerzy Skolomowski for best directing, to Adam Sikora for cinematography, to Pawel Mykietyn for music, to Reka Lemehenyi and Maciej Pawliński for editing and ‘Golden Lions’ for best film for the producers and directors.
The Element Pictures co-production stars Vincent Gallo (Arizona Dream) and Emmanuelle Seigner (La Vie en Rose) and tells the story of an escaped Afghan prisoner who finds himself vying for survival in a vast frozen woodland. ‘Essential Killing’ has been very successful on the festival circuit winning Special Jury Prize and Best Actor for Vincent Gallo in Venice IFF last year.
The script was written by Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska, and produced by Skopia Film in co-production with Element Pictures. Executive producers on the project were Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney of Element Pictures.
