Written by Kianna Best on May 7, 2024. Posted in Awards and Festivals

Malaysian filmmaker Amanda Nell Eu honoured with 2024 Women In Motion Emerging Talent Award

Kering and the Festival de Cannes will host their annual Women In Motion event recognising inspiring figures and an talented emerging female talent. This year, the initiative will honour Amanda Nell Eu with the Emerging Talent Award which will include a EUR 50,000 to support the creation of her next film project.

 

Image courtesy of Women In Motion | Kering

 

Kuala Lumpur based filmmaker and 2024 Emerging Talent Award recipient Eu made her debut with feature film Tiger Stripes which won the grand prize at the Semaine de la Critique during the Festival de Cannes 2023. The London Film School graduate checked off many first with her debut, becoming the first Malaysian film director by a female to premiere at Cannes, the first Malaysian film to win a top prize at Cannes, as well the first official Malaysian submission for the Academy Awards in 2023.

 

Amanda Nell Eu, director of Tiger Stripes, declared: “I am incredibly honored to receive this award, and I want to give an extra thank you to the super bold director Carmen Jaquier. Thank you also to Women In Motion; I am already so grateful that I get to have my voice and use it and express it in a way that is free to me, so to receive this recognition is really special. Thank you to the big Tiger family – everyone involved in putting together Tiger Stripes – I think this film is a representation of the freedom that I am talking about and our potential to be beautiful bad-ass creatures in this world, if we can love, accept and listen to each other more.”

 

Carmen Jaquier explained her choice by saying: “Upon discovering the wild energy emanating from Tiger Stripes, I felt joy and remembered certain strange and violent tales from my childhood. Thanks to the rebellious power of its protagonist and its staging tinged with tragicomic elements, Amanda Nell Eu disrupts the ‘coming of age’ genre and delivers a jubilant, unique film. She reminds me that cinema is a place of invention, of insolence, and it is a great honour to pass this award on to her.”

 

Launched in 2015, Women in Motion has championed industry female talent, both through exposure ad monetary support. Since 2019, the Emerging Talent Award has been bestowed by the previous year’s winner. This year Eu was selected by Swiss director Carmen Jaquier. Other recipients of the Emerging Talent Award include Leyla Bouzid (Tunisia), Gaya Jiji (Syria), Ida Panahandeh (Iran), Maysaloun Hamoud (Palestine), Carla Simón (Spain), Eva Trobisch (Germany), Maura Delpero (Italy), Shannon Murphy (Australia), and Ninja Thyberg (Sweden).

 

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