{"id":134161,"date":"2022-09-25T05:53:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/the-kings-of-the-world-wins-golden-shell\/"},"modified":"2022-09-25T05:53:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T00:23:33","slug":"the-kings-of-the-world-wins-golden-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/the-kings-of-the-world-wins-golden-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Kings of the World\u2019 Wins Golden Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora, with her latest feature, has won the Golden Shell in main competition at the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival. <em>The Kings of the World<\/em> (<em>Los reyes del mundo<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Billed as a subversive tale of disobedience, friendship, and dignity, the film follows five boys living on the streets of Medell\u00edn who set out on a journey in search of the promised land. The film is co-produced by Colombia and Luxembourg, France, Mexico, Norway, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third year running that a film helmed by a woman has taken home the Golden Shell following Dea Kulumbegashvili\u2019s <em>Start<\/em> in 2020 and Alina Grigore\u2019s <em>Blue Moon<\/em>Last year. This is also the first time a Colombian production has picked up San Sebastian\u2019s top prize in the festival\u2019s seven decades.<\/p>\n<p>Other main competition awards included the Silver Shell for Best Director with Japanese Writer Genki Kawamura <em>Hundred Flowers (Hyakka).<\/em>. The animated feature is Kawamura\u2019s feature debut and is based on his 2019 novel of the same name. Dong Yun Zhou, Wang Chao and Wang Chao were awarded the Best Screenplay Award for their contributions to this project. <em>A Woman (Kong Xiu)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The festival\u2019s two gender-neutral acting awards went to Carla Qu\u00edlez for <em>La Maternal<\/em>Pilar Palomero directed and Paul Kircher directed this production. <em>Winter Boy<\/em>, directed by Christophe Honor\u00e9. Renata Lerman won the Best Supporting award for Diego Lerman\u2019s <em>El suplente: The Substitute<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s official competition jury was headed by Argentinian producer Mat\u00edas Mosteir\u00edn. Glenn Close was initially set to head the jury, but he had to leave due to a family emergency. The jury was rounded out by French casting director and filmmaker Antoinette Boulat, Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg, Spanish writer Rosa Montero, Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and Icelandic director Hlynur P\u00e1lmason.<\/p>\n<p>San Sebastian\u2019s closing night awards gala concluded with the world premiere of <em>Marlowe<\/em>Neil Jordan&#8217;s latest movie, starring Liam Neeson &#038; Diane Kruger. They were all present.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora, with her latest feature, has won the Golden Shell in main competition at the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival. The Kings of the World (Los reyes del mundo). Billed as a subversive tale of disobedience, friendship, and dignity, the film follows five boys living on the streets of Medell\u00edn who set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":134162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/\u2018The-Kings-of-the-World-Wins-Golden-Shell.webp.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134163,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134161\/revisions\/134163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}