7 awards for EAVE graduates in Locarno
Awards August 2016
EAVE graduates win seven awards for at the Film Festival Locarno:
- GODLESS by Ralitza Petrovam, co-producers: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors and EAVE participant Mikkel Jersin scoops the Golden Leopard for Best Film of the Festival and the Pardo for Best Actress.
- SCARRED HEARTS by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon wins the Special Jury Prize.
- THE TRAIN OF SALT AND SUGAR by Licinio Azevedo, co-producers: EAVE graduates Philippe Avril and Elias Ribeiro receives the Boccalino d'Or prize of the Independent Ticino Press.
- COMMUNION by Anna Zamecka, producer: EAVE graduate Anna Wydra wins Best Film in Semaine de la Critique
- VALPARAISO by Carlo Sironi, producer: EAVE graduate Giovanni Pompili gets the Premio Film und Video Untertitelung.
- BANGKOK NITES by Katsuya Tomita, co-producer: EAVE graduate Philippe Avril wins the First Prize of the Junior Jury.
- ALBUM by Mehmet Can Mertoglu, co-producers: EAVE graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon and EAVE participant Oana Iancu won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film at the Sarajevo Film Festival. The film also won the Cineuropa Prize and the CICAE Award.
- GODLESS by Ralitza Petrovam, co-producers: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors and EAVE participant Mikkel Jersin won the Special Jury Prize and the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress.
- DOGS by Bogdan Mirica, producer: EAVE graduate Marcela Ursu, co-producers: EAVE graduates Stephan Komandarev and Katya Trichkova, line producer: EAVE graduate Marcian Lazar received the Special Jury Mention and the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor.
- A MERE BREATH, written, directed and produced by EAVE graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan won Best Documentary.
- BORDERS by Damjan Kozole, producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar received the Human Rights Special Mention.
- GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNIJA by Teona S Mitevska, producer: EAVE graduate and Macedonian National Coordiantor Labina Mitevska got the Eurimages Co-production Development Award.
- OTTO THE BARBARIAN by Ruxandra Ghitescu, producers: EAVE graduate Iuliana Tarnovetchi won the Macedonian Film Agency CineLink Award.
- The MDM EAVE Scholarship goes to LOOKING FOR VENERA by Norika Sefa, producer: Belina Jano
- HOSTAGES by Rezo Gigineishvili, producer: EAVE graduate Vladimer Katchavara was given the TRT Award
- TOUCH ME NOT by Adina Pintilie, producers: EAVE graduates Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Karsten Stöter, Ana Alexieva, Philippe Avril received the Post Republic Award.
- EAVE National Coordinator Bosnia and Herzegovina Amra Baksic Camo won the Ivica Matic Award handed out by the Association of Bosnian Filmmakers.
Three awards for: TONI ERDMANN by Maren Ade, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon and EAVE graduate Antonin Svoboda. The film won:
- The FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2016 for Best Film of the year. Maren Ade will collect the award at the San Sebastián Film Festival.
- The Norwegian Film Critics’ Award at the Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund.
- The Golden Tower for Best Film in the International Competition of the European Film Festival Palic.
- VIVA by Paddy Breathnach, producer: EAVE graduate Robert Walpole wins the main prize, the Propeller Award at the Motovun Film Festival.
- A GOOD WIFE by Mirjana Karanovic producers: EAVE graduates Snezana Penev and Sinisa Juricic received the FIPRESCI Award.
- FIPRESCI Prize for OSCURO ANIMAL by Felipe Guerrero, producer: EAVE graduate Gema Juárez Allen, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marleen Slot, Ingmar Trost, Vicky Miha
- 2 awards for EAVE project FORTNIGHT by Aga Waszcynska, producer: EAVE graduate Agnieszka Wasiak.
- the EAVE / PISF scholarship went to Magdalena Kaminska.
Page published 30 August 2016.
