French actor, film and theater director, and screenwriter Samuel Theis won the grand prize for his coming-of-age drama Softie in the Taipei Film Festival’s International New Talent Competition, the organizers said on Friday.
Softie stood out from 11 other nominated works for how it “utilizes a realistic approach to portray how a tender young soul is strengthened throughout the episode he confronts,” the jury said in a statement.
Theis was also commended for presenting a “marvelous precision of cinematic technique,” where his “mature capability of directing is confidently demonstrated in the actor’s performance, making the powerful salvation in the finale linger in