{"id":3652,"date":"2023-09-11T19:36:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2023-09-11T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:39:50","slug":"love-is-a-gun-lion-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/love-is-a-gun-lion-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion of the Future Award goes to Love Is a Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Love Is a Gun<\/strong>\u00a0by Taiwanese director Lee Hong-Chi\u00a0snatches the<strong> Lion of the Future \u2013 \u201cLuigi De Laurentiis\u201d Venice Award for a Debut Film<\/strong>, assigned by an international jury chaired by Alice Diop and composed of Faouzi Bensa\u00efdi, Laura Citarella, Andrea de Sica and Chloe Domont.<\/p>\n<p>Love Is a Gun, which was presented at the <strong>38. Settimana Internazionale della Critica<\/strong>, is a Hong Kong-Taiwan co-production and first film by the famous actor Lee Hong-Chi. Moreover, it is also the very first feature hailing from Hong Kong or Taiwan to receive the Lion of the Future Award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are so very happy and proud that the Lion of the Future \u2013 &#8216;Luigi De Laurentiis&#8217; Venice Award for a Debut Film has been awarded to Lee Hong-Chi&#8217;s Love Is a Gun, selected in competition at the 38. Settimana Internazionale della Critica. It is a film that comes from afar, inhabited by a group of characters doomed by an inescapable destiny, a past that will forever follow them. It is a passionate and powerful debut that reveals the talent of a new young auteur destined to become one of the leading names in contemporary Asian cinema&#8221;, says Beatrice Fiorentino, General Delegate of the Settimana.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo \u00a9 La Biennale di Venezia &#8211; Foto ASAC \u2013 Andrea Avezz\u00f9)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Is a Gun\u00a0by Taiwanese director Lee Hong-Chi\u00a0snatches the Lion of the Future \u2013 \u201cLuigi De Laurentiis\u201d Venice Award for a Debut Film, assigned by an international jury chaired by Alice Diop and composed of Faouzi Bensa\u00efdi, Laura Citarella, Andrea de Sica and Chloe Domont. Love Is a Gun, which was presented at the 38. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/love-is-a-gun-lion-future\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicvenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}