CORA wins Eurimages Co-production Development Award
Awards February 2021
Sundance Film Festival
Success for EAVE graduates at the Sundance Film Festival:
- Three awards for HIVE by Blerta Basholli, producer: EAVE graduate Valon Bajgora. The film scooped the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, the Directing Award and the Audience Award
- LUZZU by Alex Camilleri, executive producer: EAVE graduate Pierre Ellul won the World Cinema Dramatic Jury Award for Acting
- FLEE by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, producers: EAVE graduates Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen was awarded the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize
- PRESIDENT by Camilla Nielsson, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen won the Special Jury Award in Verite Filmmaking
- THE CRIMINALS by Serhat Karaaslan, producer: EAVE graduate Laure Dahout won the Short Film Special Jury Award for Screenwriting
- MOTHERHOOD by Meryam Joobeur, producer: EAVE graduate Sara Ben Hassen, co-producer: EAVE graduate Khalid Maimouni won the Sundance Institute NHK Award
Göteborg Film Festival
6 awards for EAVE graduates at the 44th Göteborg Film Festival:
- TOVE by Zaida Bergroth, producer: EAVE graduate Aleksi Bardy received the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award
- PLEASURE by Ninja Thyberg, co-producer: EAVE graduate Leontine Petit won the FIPRESCI Award
- FLEE by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Producers: EAVE graduates Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen received the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary
- DRUK (ANOTHER ROUND) by Thomas Vinterberg, co-producers: EAVE graduates Lizette Jonjic, Arnold Heslenfeld, Laurette Schillings & Frans van Gestel won the Audience Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film
- QUO VADIS‚ AIDA? by Jasmila Zbanic, producer: EAVE graduate Cristian Nicolescu won the Dragon Award for Best International Film
- SWEAT by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski won the Angelos Award
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Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers
- DIGGER by Georgis Grigorakis, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa won the Activités sociales de l’énergie Award at the Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers.
Three awards for EAVE graduates at the International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR:
- EAVE project LOOKING FOR VENERA by Norika Sefa scooped the Special Jury Award for exceptional artistic achievement in the Tiger Competition
- QUO VADIS‚ AIDA? by Jasmila Zbanic, producer: EAVE graduate Cristian Nicolescu won the BankGiro Loterij Audience Award
- NIGHT OF THE KINGS by Philippe Lacôte, producer: EAVE+ graduate Yanick Létourneau received the Youth Jury Award.
Cinemart
Three awards for EAVE graduates at the IFFR Cinemart:
- CORA by Evi Kalogiropoulou, producer: EAVE graduate Amanda Livanou has won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award
- KABUL JAN by Shahrbanoo Sadat, producer: EAVE graduate Jon Hammer won the Filmmore Post-production Award
- VIET AND NAM by Minh Quy Truong, producer: TTB group leader and National Coordinator Asia Bianca Balbuena has won the IFFR Young Film Critics Award
European Film Academy
- MY EXTRAORDINARY SUMMER WITH TESS by Steven Wouterlood, producers: EAVE graduates Marcel Lenz, Guido Schwab has won the EFA Young Audience Award.
Danish Robert Awards
- DRUK (ANOTHER ROUND) by Thomas Vinterberg, co-producers: EAVE graduates Lizette Jonjic, Arnold Heslenfeld, Laurette Schillings & Frans van Gestel wins big at Denmark’s Robert Awards. The film was awarded Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Lead Actor (Mads Mikkelsen)
- RIDERS OF JUSTICE by Thomas Jensen, producer: EAVE graduate Lizette Jonjic won Best Actress (newcomer Andrea Heick Gadeberg) and Best Supporting Actor (Lars Brygmann), as well as Best Score and Best Visual Effects.
- SHORTA by Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Leick Jensen won Best Supporting Actress (Özlem Saglanmak)
London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
2 awards for EAVE graduates at the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards 2021:
- DRUK (ANOTHER ROUND) by Thomas Vinterberg, co-producers: EAVE graduates Lizette Jonjic, Arnold Heslenfeld, Laurette Schillings & Frans van Gestel has won Foreign-Language Film Of The Year
- COLLECTIVE by Alexander Nanau, producer: EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator Bernard Michaux was awarded Documentary Of The Year
European Shooting Stars
EFP (European Film Promotion) has presented the ten best up-and-coming actresses and actors from Europe for its 2021 European Shooting Stars. Among them:
- Seidi Haarla, in: COMPARTMENT NUMBER 6 by Juho Kuosmanen, producer: EAVE graduate Jussi Rantamäki, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jamila Wenske, Natalia Drozd, EAVE graduate, group leader and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos
- Albrecht Schuch, in: BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Burhan Qurbani, producers: EAVE graduates Léontine Petit, Derk-Jan Warrink, Marleen Slot
- Fionn O’Shea, in: NORMAL PEOPLE by Lenny Abrahamson, executive producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
- Zygimante Elena Jakstaite, in: RUNNER by Andrius Blazevicius, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute
- Martijn Lakemeyer, in: THE EAST by Jim Taihuttu, producers: EAVE graduates Julius Ponten and Sander Verdonk, co-producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland
- Sara Klimoska, in: WILLOW by Milcho Manchevski, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hubert Toint
- Alba Baptista, in: PATRICK by Gonçalo Waddington, producer: EAVE+ graduate Jonas Katzenstein
- Gustav Lindh, in: ORCA by Josephine Bornebusch, producer: EAVE graduate Sofie Palage
The award ceremony took place digitally from 23 to 25 February.
Page published 25 February 2021.
