5 EAVE projects and 1 PUENTES project in the Oscar race

EAVE Nominations September 2018

These 25 films by EAVE graduates are representing their country in the race for the next Foreign Language Oscar nomination:

• BORDER by Ali Abbasi, producer: EAVE graduate Nina Bisgaard – Sweden
• BURNOUT by Nour Eddine Lakhmari, producer: EAVE graduate Egil Ødegard
• CAPERNAUM by Nadine Labaki, co-produced by EAVE graduate Pierre Sarraf
• DONBASS by Sergej Loznitsa, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert – Ukraine
• EAVE project BIRDS OF PASSAGE by Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors, co-producers: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin – Paraguay
• EAVE project SUNSET by Laszlo Nemes, producer in development stage: Eszter Gyarfas – Hungary
• EAVE project GHOST HUNTING by Raed Andoni, producer: EAVE graduate Palmyre Badinier – Palestine
• THE FAMILY by Gustavo Rondon Cordova, producer: PUENTES graduate Marianela Illas, co-producer: EAVE graduate Dag Hoel – Venzuela
• GIRL by Lukas Dhont, producers: EAVE graduates Arnold Heslenfeld, Laurette Schillings & Frans van Gestel – Belgium  
• GUTLAND by Govinda Van Maele, producer: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial – Luxemburg
• I AM NOT A WITCH by Rungano Nyoni, producer: EAVE graduate Juliette Grandmont, co-producer: EAVE group leader Titus Kreyenberg – UK
• I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS by Radu Jude, producers: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon and EAVE graduates Jiri Konecny, Jonas Dornbach – Romania
• EAVE project IVAN by Janez Burger, producer: EAVE graduate Miha Cernec – Slovenia
• MEMOIR OF WAR by Emmanuel Finkiel, co-producers: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart, PUENTES graduate Géraldine Sprimont – France
• NAMME by Zaza Khalvashi, producer: EAVE graduate Ieva Norviliene – Georgia
• NEVER LEAVE ME by EAVE graduate Aida Begic, producers: EAVE graduates Aida Begic, Adis Djapo – Bosnia Herzegovia
• POLYXENI by Dora Masklavanou, producer: EAVE graduate Fenia Cossovitsa – Greece
• EAVE project SECRET INGREDIENT by Gjorce Stavreski, producer: EAVE graduate Kostantina Stavrianou – Macedonia
• PUENTES project THE HEIRESSES by Marcelo Martinessi, producer at development stage: PUENTES graduate Karen Fraenkel, co-producer: PUENTES group leaders Fernando Epstein and Agustina Chiarino - Paraguay
• THE WILD PEAR TREE by Nuri Bilge Ceylan co-producer: EAVE graduate and Macedonian National Coordinator Labina Mitevska – Turkey
• TO BE CONTINUED by Ivars Seleckis, producer: EAVE+ graduate Gints Grube – Latvia
• WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY by Iram Haq, co-producer: EAVE graduates Lizette Jonjic, Karsten Stöter – Norway
• WONDERFUL LOSERS: A DIFFERENT WORLD by Arunas Mitelis, co-producer: EAVE graduate Stefano Tealdi – Lithuania
• WINTER FLIES by Olmo Omerzu, producer: EAVE graduate Jiri Konencny – Czech Republic
• NOTHING TO DECLARE by Hetty de Kruijf, producer: EAVE graduate Joram Willing, is the Dutch Oscar entry in the in the Live Action Short Film Category.

www.oscars.org


The European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg have announced the five nominated films for the European University Film Award (EUFA):

• FOXTROT by Samuel Maoz, associated producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler
• LAZZARO FELICE by Alice Rohrwacher, producer: EAVE graduate Carlo Cresta-Dina
• STYX by Wolfgang Fischer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
• TARZAN’S TESTICLES by Alexandru Solomon, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National coordinator Ada Solomon, EAVE graduate Cedric Bonin

www.europeanfilmacademy.org

The following projects by EAVE graduates have been selected for connecting cottbus:

coco pitch projects 2018

• 9TH STEP by Irma Puzauskaite, producer: B’EST graduate Lukas Trimonis
• ANATOLIAN LEOPARD by Emre Kayis, producer: EAVE graduate Olena Yershova
• I NEVER CRY by Piotr Domalewski, producer: EAVE graduate Jan Kwiecinski
• MEN OF DEEDS by Nicolae Constantin Tanase, producer: EAVE graduate Anamaria Antoci
• MIRA by Anna Jadowska, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Blicharska
• OCTOBER by Cristian Pascariu, producers: EAVE graduates Oana Giurgiu, Bogdan Craciun
• PARALISIS by Andrius Blazevicius, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute
• PATCHWORK by Petros Charalambous, producer: EAVE graduate  Marios Piperides

coco wip projects 2018

• BRIGHTON 4 by Levan Koguashvili, producer: EAVE graduate Olena Yershova
• GERANIUM by Cagil Bocut, producer: EAVE graduate Asli Erdem

At Connecting Cottbus festival and market, EAVE finance expert Linda Beath will do a session about company planning (EAVE+) in the framework of the cooperation between Cottbus and EAVE.

www.connecting-cottbus.de

PUENTES project THE HEIRESSES by Marcelo Martinessi, producer at development stage: PUENTES graduate Karen Fraenkel, co-producers: PUENTES group leaders Fernando Epstein and Agustina Chiarino is the Paraguayan entry for the Goya and Ariel Awards.

www.mutantecine.com

Page published 28 September 2018.