Out Of Africa: Senegalese Director Linda Lô Wins €50,000 Prize At 2025 TorinoFilmLab
French-Senegalese filmmaker Linda Lô has emerged one of the big winners at this year’s TorinoFilmLab … Her project, Lucky Girl, is one of four film projects in advanced development which took home €50,000 each in the TFL Production Awards. The other winning projects are: La Canícula by Rod Llaverías, produced by the Dominican Republic’s Wendy Espinal; The […]
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French-Senegalese filmmaker Linda Lô has emerged one of the big winners at this year’s TorinoFilmLab …
Her project, Lucky Girl, is one of four film projects in advanced development which took home €50,000 each in the TFL Production Awards.
The other winning projects are: La Canícula by Rod Llaverías, produced by the Dominican Republic’s Wendy Espinal; The Passions Of Angela Simmons by the US’s Lucy Kerr, produced by Megan Pickrell; and Three Ages by Jiajie Yu Yan, produced by Spain’s César Esteban Alenda.
The four films were chosen from 10 shortlisted FeatureLab projects by a jury composed of The Match Factory’s head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou, filmmaker Mo Harawe, Toronto programmer Dorota Lech and Lucky Red founder Andrea Occhipinti.
Linda Lô is a writer, director and actress. She grew up in Bordeaux and holds a master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris. After working at the UN in New York, she worked as a radio producer and completed an NYU Tisch intensive programme. Lô’s spec script was selected for a Cannes FF screenplay competition before going into development.
Lucky Girl is about four-year-old Lili and her brothers who, during a vacation in Bordeaux, find themselves left to their own devices when their flamboyant mother returns without them to Gabon. The story blends childhood vulnerability with themes of abandonment, identity, and migration, a narrative sensibility that has positioned the film as one of the most anticipated emerging African titles.
The TFL Meeting Event marks the conclusion of a year-long training programme organised by TorinoFilmLab – Museo Nazionale del Cinema. Supported by TFL tutors, 113 writers, directors and producers worked on the development of 48 projects – 39 feature films and nine TV series – and then presented their ideas in Turin in front of an industry audience.
The projects taking part in the three-day event included: 16 feature films in the writing stage from ScriptLab, 10 films in pre-production from FeatureLab, four comedy film projects from ComedyLab, nine original TV series projects supported by SeriesLab, and eight Italian and international projects from Boost It Lab.
See the full list of TorinoFilmLab winners here.
