Awards and Nominations October 2011
EAVE 2010 project ARCHEO wins award for Best Feature Film at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož
Awards
- STOPPED ON TRACK: director Andreas Dresen and producer EAVE group leader Peter Rommel were given the Douglas-Sirk Prize of the Hamburg Filmfest. They are the first Germans and the first team to win this award.
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- BEYOND by Pernilla August, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate and Swedish National Coordinator Helena Danielsson were awarded the Nordic Council Film Prize. August shares the prize with co-scriptwriter Lolita Ray and producers Helena Danielsson and Ralf Karlsson. The film has reached 650,000 admissions in Scandinavia for Nordisk Film.
- BURMA VJ by Anders Østergaard, producer: EAVE group leader EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller was honored with a Special Commendation by the jury for its unique approach to documenting and broadcasting the Burma monks uprising against the military regime in September 2007 at a time when all foreign media were banned from the country. The bravery of the filmmakers has inspired a new generation of VJs (Video Journalist) and independent journalists within Burma..
- STILL LIFE by Sebastian Meise, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann and EAVE 1994 graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Erich Lackner received a Special Jury Mention at the Filmfestival San Sebastian for its “creative and sensitive exploration of a difficult and challenging theme”.
- THE GIANTS by Bouli Lanners, producers: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart & EAVE group leader and 1992 graduate Jani Thiltges received the Bayard d’Or for Best Photography and the Bayard d’Or for Best Comedy at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur.
www.fiff.be/fr/Programmation/Bayard-et-Prix
- EAVE 2010 project ARCHEO by Jan Cvitkovic, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Jozko Rutar won the awards for Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Photography at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož.
- THE ALEXANDRIANS by Metod Pevec, producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar won the award for Best Documentary at the Festival
- EAVE 2003 project BLACK BUTTERFLIES by Paula van der Oest, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Arry Voorsmit won the awards for Best Editor, Best Actress and Best Film at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht.
http://www.blackbutterflies.nl/
- BROWNIAN MOVEMENT by Nanouk Leopold, co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper and EAVE 2008 graduate Ellen de Waele was awarded Best Screenplay and Best Director at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht.
- BEST INTENTIONS by Adrian Sitaru, producers: EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon, EAVE 2005 graduate Emöke Vagasi and EAVE 2011 participant Monica Lazurean Gorgan won the Visegrad prize at MIskolc Cinefest.
www.filmneweurope.com/news/hungary/fne-visegrad-prix-for-best-intentions
- EAVE 2011 project SAINTS by Seyfi Teoman, producer: EAVE 2011 participant Enis Köstepen has received a Honorable Mention grant of the Global Film Initiative.
- EAVE 2008 project LAPP HAT by EAVE 2008 graduate Guro S. Bjerk won the Special Award for Education and Ethics at the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards 2011
http://www.euromediaawards.eu/
Nominations
- EAVE 1999 graduate Mark Lavender was selected for Film London’s Production Finance Market in October 2011.
12 Academy Award(R) entries from Europe presented in Los Angeles. Among the nominees are four films produced by EAVE graduates:
- BULLHEAD by Michaël R. Roskam, co-producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
- TILT by writer-director Viktor Chouchkov, co-producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Guido Schwab and EAVE 2010 graduate Marcel Lenz
- VOLCANO by Rúnar Rúnarsson, executive producer: EAVE 1993 graduate Thomas Gammeltoft
- PUNK’S NOT DEAD by Vladimir Blaževski, producer: EAVE 2011 participant Darko Popov
The European Film Academy has announced the finalists for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2011 - Prix FIPRESCI, presented as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. Two of the finalists are produced by EAVE graduates:
- MICHAEL by Markus Schleinzer, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Michael Kitzberger
- ADEM (OXYGEN) by Hans Van Nuffel, producers: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit & EAVE 2007 graduate Marleen Slot
The Academy has also announced three Documentaries nominated for the European Film Awards, two of them are produced by EAVE graduates:
- PINA by Wim Wenders, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Gian Piero Ringel
- VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS, by Victor Kossakovsky, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert
The winner will be presented at the 24th European Film Awards on 3 December in Berlin.
- ANARCHY IN ZIRMUNAI, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene is selected to the competition sections of the Kinoshok Film Festival in Anapa, Arsenal in Ryga, and Cinedays in Skopje.
Page published 19 October 2011.
