Nastia Korkia’s Short Summer, a film on the tragic war in Ukraine, has won the Leone del Futuro Luigi De Laurentiis Venice Award for a Debut Film, which has reached its twenty-ninth edition. Television presenter Mara Venier presented the award on the stage of the Sala Grande at the Venice Film Festival.
Aurelio De Laurentiis created the award, naming it after his father Luigi. Luigi De Laurentiis was both a film producer and a publisher and passed away in 1992.
The award has been a part of the Venice International Film Festival since 1996 and is given to the best debut film presented in one of the festival’s selections.
Every year the Leone del Futuro also comes with a 100,000-dollar prize, funded by Aurelio De Laurentiis’s Filmauro entertainment company, with the sum being divided equally between the director and the producer. Of all the Festival’s official awards, Filmauro’s 100,000-dollar prize is the only cash prize.
Director Nastia Korkia with Mara Venier
