BBC Four announce new award for best foreign language film

BBC Four, in a "demonstration of commitment to international cinema", have launched a new award, the BBC Four Film of the Year.
Every year a jury of experts from the film world will select the best foreign-language film released in the UK in the preceding year. The first winner will be announced in a new programme, BBC Four Film of the Year 2003, to be shown in January 2004.
Controller of BBC Four, Roly Keating, said: "In the past 10 months BBC Four have already shown that there's much more to cinema than Hollywood and proved that viewers have a real appetite for brilliant film-making, whatever its language and country of origin.
"Audiences have been flocking to cinemas to see films such as 'Together', 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and 'City of God', and I'm delighted that the BBC Four Film of the Year will help to put films like these centre-stage.
"BBC Four is for people who are open-minded, multi-cultural and globally aware - exactly the sort of people who are passionate about foreign-language films."
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