The American Film Academy has excluded the Portuguese film
Listen, directed by Ana Rocha de Sousa, from the nomination for Best Foreign Film at the 2021 Oscars.
After analyzing the Portuguese submission, the American Film Academy informed that “The International Feature Film Executive Committee decided the candidacy was ineligible and requested that a new film candidacy be submitted as urgently as possible,” the Portuguese Academy of Cinema (APC) announced.
The American Film Academy has concluded that the film is mostly spoken in the English language, and, therefore, does not comply with the competition rules.
According to the APC source, “the exclusion is linked to one of the eligibility criteria that requires at least 50 percent of the participant film must be spoken in a non-English language.”
“Listen” rejected as Oscars candidate By TPN/Lusa, in News · 19-12-2020 12:00:00 · 0 Comments
The United States Academy of Cinema has rejected the Portuguese application of the film “Listen”, by Ana Rocha de Sousa, for the nomination of Best International Film. “After analysing the film Listen by Ana Rocha de Sousa, the International Feature Film Executive Committee considered the candidacy ineligible and requests that a new candidate be sent as urgently as possible”, said the Portuguese Academy of Cinema (APC), who has now opened a new selection process.
APC stresses that the exclusion is linked to one of the eligibility criteria that requires at least 50 percent of the candidate film to be spoken in a non-English language .
Cinema numbers plummet By TPN/Lusa, in Business · 18-12-2020 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
In November, Portuguese cinemas welcomed 108,220 guests, less than half of the those recorded in October as a result of state of emergency measures that led to the halting of night time films.
The monthly statistical data from the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual (ICA), shows that in October there had been about 251,000 spectators in cinemas, resulting in €1.3 million of box office takings, but the figures fell to less than half in November, with 108,220 spectators and €579,00 in box office revenue.
This fall in numbers from one month to the next - in a year that has already seen the sector face unprecedented drops in revenue - happened during the period when the Government renewed the decree of the state of emergency in s