JURIES AND AWARDS

The Official Awards of Giornate degli Autori
The GDA Director’s Award is assigned by the Official Jury of Giornate degli Autori, headed by a filmmaker and composed of ten former participants in the 27 Times Cinema program inaugurated in 2010 by the European Parliament. The award carries a cash prize of €20,000, to be split equally between the filmmaker and the film’s international distributor, who agrees to use the sum received to promote the winning film internationally.

All the films in the Official Selection are eligible for the People’s Choice Award.

The Europa Cinemas Label, awarded to films produced and co-produced in Europe. The Label, created by a network of high-caliber European exhibitors, with the support of the EU’s MEDIA Programme, consists of a cash award towards distribution and promotion of the winning film, along with its being shown in the cinemas belonging to the network.

All the films participating in Giornate, like those in all the other sections at Venice, are also in the running for the parallel awards. The ceremony for these awards will take place on the last day of the festival.

First films in the Official Selection are eligible for the Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis Award” Venice Award for a Debut Film.

The GdA Director’s Award Jury
Joanna Hogg will head a jury that this year consists of ten former participants in the 27 Times Cinema program inaugurated by the European Parliament in 2010. The president and her ten-strong “team” will choose the winner of the GdA Director’s Award, which carries a cash prize of €20,000, to be split equally between the director and the international distributor, who commits to using the sum received to promote the film. As is tradition, the jury sessions will be coordinated by Karel Och, Artistic Director of the Karlovy Vary Festival.
In recent years the jury has been headed by filmmakers Diego Lerman (2014), Laurent Cantet (2015), Bruce LaBruce (2016), Samira Makhmalbaf (2017), Jonas Carpignano (2018), Karim Aïnouz (2019), Nadav Lapid (2020), Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova (2021), Céline Sciamma (2022) and João Pedro Rodrigues (2023).

Europa Cinemas Label Jury
Daira Āboliņa (Splendid Palace, Riga, Latvia)
António Costa Valente (Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro, Portugal)
Andrea Porta (Cinema Teatro Nuovo, Varese, Italy)
Jana Trnková (Kino Světozor, Prague, Czech Republic)