An Oscar® and 17 Berlinale Awards for EAVE producers
Awards February 2016
Academy Awards
- ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won the Oscar® for Best Actress In A Leading Role.
Berlinale Awards
EAVE graduates have been extremely successful at the International Film Festival Berlin, winning four Silver Bears and four prizes in other festival sections as well as nine awards handed out by Independent Juries:
Competition
- A LULLABY TO THE SORROWFUL MYSTERY by Lav Diaz, producer: EAVE graduate Fran Borgia received the Silver Bear, Alfred Bauer Prize.
- DEATH IN SARAJEVO by Danis Tanoviic, producer: EAVE National Coordinator Bosnia and Herzegovina Amra Baksic Camo, executive producer: EAVE graduate Adis Djapo won the Silver Bear, Grand Jury Prize.
- EAVE project UNITED STATES OF LOVE by Tomasz Wasilewski, producer: EAVE graduate Piotr Kobus was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.
- THE COMMUNE by Thomas Vinterberg, co-producers: EAVE graduates Laurette Schillings and Frans van Gestel won the Silver Bear for Best Actress, Trine Dyrholm.
Generation
- Generation 14Plus Crystal Bear by the Youth Jury for Best Film: B’EST project MELLOW MUD by Renars Vimba, producer: B’EST graduate Alise Gelze and EAVE graduate and Latvian National Coordinator Aija Berzina
- Generation Kplus Honorable Mention by the International Jury for Best Film: YOUNG WRESTLERS, produced and directed by EAVE graduate Mete Gümürhan
Co-production Market and Berlinale Talents
- BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN by Pierre Földes, producers: EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt, EAVE graduate Viktoria Petranyi won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award.
- THE LITTLE COMRADE by Moonika Siimets, producer: EAVE graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos received an Honorable Mention.
Prizes of the Independent Juries
The Ecomenical Jury Awards went to:
- THE FIRST, THE LAST by Bouli Lanners, producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Panorama)
- LES SAUTEURS (THOSE WHO JUMP) by Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner, Abou Bakar Sidibé, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen (Forum).
FIPRESCI Awards:
- DEATH IN SARAJEVO by Danis Tanovic, producer: EAVE National Coordinator Bosnia and Herzegovina Amra Baksic Camo, executive producer: EAVE graduate Adis Djapo (Competition)
- ALOYS by Tobias Nölle, producers: EAVE + graduate Christof Neracher and EAVE graduate Jean des Forêts (Panorama)
Label Europa Award:
- THE FIRST, THE LAST by Bouli Lanners, producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
Teddy Award:
- KATER (TOMCAT) by Händl Klaus, producer: EAVE graduate Antonin Svoboda (Best Fiction Film)
- KIKI by Sara Jordenö & Twiggy Pucci Garçon, producer: EAVE graduate Annika Rogell (Best Documentary)
CICAE Art Cinema Award
- ILLEGITIMATE by Adrian Sitaru, producer: EAVE graduate Anamaria Antoci
Tagesspiegel Readers’ Jury Award
- WE ARE NEVER ALONE by Petr Vaclav, producers: EAVE graduates Jan Macola, Sophie Erbs, EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt
Four awards for EAVE graduates at the Sundance Film Festival:
- MORRIS FROM AMERICA by Chad Hartigan, producers: EAVE graduates Martin Heisler and Arek Gielnik won Best Screenplay and Best Actor in the US Dramatic Competition.
- BELGICA by Felix van Groeningen producers: EAVE graduates Laurette Schillings, Frans van Gestel and Arnold Heslenfeld won Best Director in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
- MI AMIGA DEL PARQUE by Ana Katz producer: EAVE graduate Agustina Chiarino won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography.
- PUENTES project AUGUST by Armando Capó Ramos, producer: PUENTES graduate Marcela Esquivel Jiménez was awarded the festival’s Development Fund Prize.
- WELCOME TO NORWAY by Rune Denstad Langlo, producer: EAVE graduate Sigve Endresen won the Audience Award at the Göteborg International Film Festival.
- THE YARD by Måns Månsson, producers: EAVE graduates Charlotte Most, Matthias Krause was awarded the Lorensprice.
- KEEPER by Guillaume Senez, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc won the Grand Prix du Jury of the Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers.
- PREJUDICE by Antoine Cuypers, producer: EAVE graduate Benoît Roland, co-producers: EAVE graduates Bernard Michaux, Sander Verdonk was awarded the Prix du Public.
- BABAI by Visar Morina, producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards won Best Actor.
- ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney was awarded Leading Actress in 2016 for Brie Larson at the British Academy Awards (BAFTAs).
http://awards.bafta.org/award/2016/film
EAVE producers scooped numerous awards at Les Magritte du Cinéma:
- LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT by Jaco Van Dormael, producers: EAVE graduate Paul Thiltges and EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator David Grumbach won Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Score
- TOUS LES CHATS SONT GRIS by Savina Dellicour, producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno was awarded Best First Film and Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- THE ARDENNES by Robin Pront, producers: EAVE graduates Peter Bouckaertwon Best Flemish Film
- JE SUIS MORT MAIS J’AI DES AMIS by Stéphane and Guillaume Malandrin, producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart was awarded Best Actor
- MELODY by Bernard Bellefroid, producer: EAVE graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges won Best Actress
- THE WEDNESDAY CHILD by Lili Horvath, producer:EAVE graduate Károly Fehér received the Trieste Award for Best Feature Film at the Trieste Film Festival.
- The Salani Award went to BANAT by Adriano Valerio, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
- MASTER AND TATYANA by Giedre Zickyte, producer: EAVE graduate Dagne Vildziunaite won the SkyArte Prize
- CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM by Ilinca Calugareanu, producer: EAVE graduate Monica Lazurean Gorgan received the Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Award
- The #TSFFbacktoschool Prize (for a short film) went to LOVE ON THE TOP OF THE WORLD by Jan Cvitkovic, producer: EAVE graduate Miha Cernec
- The ARTE Award, handed out at the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s co-production market, CineMart, went to EAVE project BIRDS OF PASSAGE by Ciro Guerra, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors
- BODKIN RAS by Kaweh Modiri, producer: EAVE graduate Raymond van der Kaaij won the FIPRESCI Award
- THE WAKHAN FRONT by Clément Cogitore, co-producer: Ties That Bind graduate Valerie Bournonville took home the Best French Debut Feature Award awarded by the French Union of Critics
Page published 26 February 2016. Updated 29 February 2016.
