Audience Award in Gothenburg for EAVE project MY SKINNY SISTER
Awards March 2015
- IN YOUR ARMS by Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm, producer: EAVE graduate Dirk Decker won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film and the Fipresci Award at the Göteborg International Film Festival.
- THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen was awarded Best Nordic Documentary
- THE LESSON by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, producer: EAVE graduate Magdelena Ilieva and EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou received the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at the festival.
- THEY HAVE ESCAPED by JP Valkeapää, producer: EAVE graduate Aleksi Bardy, EAVE graduate Raymond van der Kaaij, EAVE graduate Annika Sucksdorff won the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award for Best Cinematography.
- The audience favourite was EAVE project MY SKINNY SISTER by Sanna Lenken, producer: EAVE graduate Annika Rogell.
- TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE graduate Marie Kjelsson won the City of Gothenburg Award
- THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen won the Bodil Prize for Best Documentary. The Bodil Prize is the award of Danish film critics, and Denmark's oldest film prize.
- TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE graduate Marie Kjelsson won the Bodil for Best non-American film.
- HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS by Peter Chelsom, producer: EAVE graduate Jens Meurer won Best Director at the Monte-Carlo Comedy Film Festival.
- MR. KAPLAN by Alvaro Brechner, producer: EAVE graduate Verona Meier won Best Actor.
- EAVE project MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON by Darko Lungulov, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana Penev received a Special Mention for Best Screenplay.
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- THE LESSON by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, producer: EAVE graduate Magdelena Ilieva, co-produced by Konstantina Stavrianou, won the Grand Prize at Luxembourg City Film Festival.
- TOTO AND HIS SISTERS by Alexander Nanau, producer: EAVE graduate Marcian Lazar was awarded the Prix Documentaire.
- THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING by Isa Qosja, producer: EAVE graduate Shkumbin Istrefi, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards won the Film Critics Award.
- THE LESSON by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, producer: EAVE graduate Magdelena Ilieva, co-produced by Konstantina Stavrianou was the big winner at the Sofial International Film Festival. The film won the Grand Prix, the Award for Best Bulgarian Feature Film, the Audience Award and the FIPRESCI Award.
- EAVE graduate Magdelena Ilieva also received a Jameson Special Mention for her short film ENEMIES by Hristo Simeonov.
- THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen was awarded Best Documentary.
- EAVE project WHY ME? by EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu, produced by EAVE graduate Oana Giurgiu, co-producer EAVE graduate Emoke Vagasi won the UBMF Award handed out by the Guild of the Bulgarian Film Critics
- AFERIM! by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon, EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny received a Special Mention by the Balkan Jury.
- AFTERLIFE by Virág Zomborácz, producer: EAVE graduate Ferec Pusztai won the First Prize of the Bergamo Film Meeting.
- THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen won the Best Film Award of the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Prague.
- LA ONCE produced and directed by PUENTES graduate Maite Alberdi was awarded Best Film in the Documentary competition of the Cartagena Film Festival.
- EAVE graduate Nynne Selin Eidnes won the pitch prize at the Danish Real Young Workshop with her series DOUBLE UP!
- NO ONE’S CHILD by Vuk Rsumovic, producer: EAVE graduate Ankica Juric Tilic won Best Film and the Best Actor Award at the FEST-Belgrade International Film Festival.
- THESE ARE THE RULES by Ognjen Svilicic, co-producer: EAVE graduate Janja Kralj received the Best Actor Award
- The 35th Fantasporto has awarded the Grand Prix in its official competition to the Hungarian film LIZA, THE FOX-FAIRY by Károly Ujj Mészáros co-producer: EAVE graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad.
Page published 31 March 2015.
