Film Wing, the fish that talked back wins awards again

The short film WING, the fish that talked back by Ricky Rijneke has won the award for best fiction debut at the international debut film festival SCENECS.

She received the 'The Dutch Golden Stone' award last Saturday. The prize also includes a cash award of €10,000 to be spent on a new film.
The ten-member expert jury consisted of filmmakers, actors, and journalists, including Jos Stelling, Pieter Verhoeff, Stevin de Jong, and Ronald Ockhuysen.

SCENECS is an international debut film festival that gives new directors the opportunity for further development with their first film. Scenecs took place in Amersfoort from November 3 to 7.

In WING, the fish that talked back, daily life is told from the perspective of the six-year-old Asian girl Wing, who gets lost in her imagination. The events in her world are wondrous, sometimes strange and
terrifying.
WING, the fish that talked back was screened at more than 50 international film festivals worldwide.
The film has already received several awards, including in the USA. Recently, the film won the Jury Prize at the Côte Bleue Short Film Festival in France.
The world premiere took place at the prestigious Locarno Film Festival in the official 'Leopards of Tomorrow' competition.

The film was made as part of Kort Rotterdams with partial support from the RMF. The RMF posted the film illegally on their site for a long time.

International sales are handled by Elypse Film Distribution in Spain. The film has been sold in various countries.

The film was produced by Werkstad Producties (Ricky Rijneke) in collaboration with Rotterdam Films (Rijneke & van Leeuwaarden).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Ricky Rijneke is currently working on the completion of her feature film debut, De Stillen, with an international cast and crew, including actress Orsi Toth (shooting star Berlinale 2009). She previously starred in the films WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (Silver Lion Venice Film Festival 2009) and DELTA (Fripresci Award Cannes Film Festival 2008). Cinematography was handled by Gergely Poharnok and Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd, who previously appeared at the Cannes Film Festival with their contributions to films such as HUKKLE, TAXIDERMIA, ELDORADO, and ULTRANOVA.

DE STILLEN is produced by Rotterdam Films.
DE STILLEN was selected from more than fifty projects and awarded a production grant for the realization of the film. This competition is a joint initiative of the Netherlands Film Fund and the Mondriaan Foundation, which aims to give a boost to feature films with a distinctly visual approach under the banner 'De Verbeelding'.
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