Stardust – the second part of Nicolas Provost’s Plot Point trilogy – won the Vienna Short Film Award at the Vienna Independent Shorts film festival (VIS), the largest short film festival of Austria and the Centrope region. The title competed in the ‘Fiction & Documentary’ international programme.
The Vienna Short Film Award, worth €4,000, is presented by the City of Vienna and was awarded by a professional international jury consisting of Ruth Jarman, Danny Krausz and Thomas Neuhauser. Some 2,000 films from 90 countries were submitted to this competition; only 29 shorts from 18 countries were officially selected.
The ‘Fiction & Documentary’ competition suited Stardust well, since the short itself investigates the boundaries of fiction and reality, as everyday life is filmed with hidden camera’s and then turned into fiction by using cinematic codes from the classic Hollywood narrative.
Many of Nicolas Provost’s films, such as Long Live The New Flesh, Plot Point and Exoticore, have been shown worldwide and have been awarded at notable international festivals including Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.
Provost is currently putting the final touches on his first feature-length film, The Invader, which focuses on the journey of an illegal African immigrant in Brussels. The film critiques modern society and the way in which we create monsters out of illegal immigrants. The Invader stars Issaka Sawadogo, Stefania Rocca and Serge Riaboukine. The Flemish co-producer is Antonino Lombardo for Prime Time.