Turkish Casting Director Harika Uygur Wins European Casting Award
Turkish casting director Harika Uygur is the winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s European Casting Award, this year sponsored by Spotlight, in co-ordination with the International Casting Directors Network, for Mustang. A foreign-language Oscar-nominated debut starring previously unknown talent — Elit Iscan, Gunes Nezihe Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Ilayda Akdogan, and Tugba Sunguroglu.
Harika is a member of the Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audio-visual Culture and the ICDN. She recently finished casting Iraqui-Kurdish director Hiner Saleem’s Lady Winsley, a French, Turkish, Belgian co-production.
She was voted the winner from 16 nominated casting directors by the 83 members of the International Casting Directors Network (ICDN), which represents casting directors in 24 countries.
The prize was awarded during a ceremony at Locarno’s Hotel Rinascente, attended by Nancy Bishop, and Bond casting director Debbie McWilliams.
The sixteen contenders for the European Casting Director Award this year were:
Simone Bär (Denmark) for “Land of Mine” by Martin Pieter Zandvliet, 2015
Nicole Schmied (Austria) for “Die Holle/Inferno” by Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2017
Youna de Peretti (France) for “Victoria” by Justine Triet, 2016
Nina Haun (Germany) for “Toni Erdmann” by Maren Ade, 2016
Esther Kling (Israel) for “One Week and a Day” by Asaph Polonsky, 2016
Francesco Vedovati (Italy) for “Pericle il Nero” by Stefano Mordini, 2016
Frank Moiselle & Nuala Moiselle (Ireland) for “The Secret Scripture” by Jim Sheridan, 2015
Rebecca van Unen (Netherlands) for “Layle M” by Mijke de Jung, 2016
Celine Engebrigtsen, (Norway) for “Framing Mom” by Sara Johnson, 2016
Marta Kownacka (Poland) for “The Art of Loving. Story of Michalina Wislocka” by Maria Sadowska, 2017
Viorica Capdefier (Romania) for “Scarred Hearts” by Radu Jude, 2016
Luci Lennox (Spain) for “Realive” by Mateo Gil, 2016
Jeanette Klintberg (Sweden) for “A Serious Game” by Pernilla August, 2016
Corinna Glaus & Ruth Hirschfeld & Beatrice Kruger (Switzerland) for “The Divine Order” by Petra Biondina Volpe, 2017
Harika Ulgur & Kristin Diehle (Turkey) for “Mustang” by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015
Gail Stevens (United Kingdom) for “T2 Trainspotting” by Danny Boyle, 2017
Avy Kaufman (United States) for “A Bigger Splash” by Luca Guadagnino, 2015
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