CORN ISLAND and FREE FALL win main awards at Karlovy Vary
Awards July 2014
- CORN ISLAND von George Ovashvili, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille won the Crystal Globe as the best film in the Main Competition of the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film was also awarded the Ecumenical Jury Award.
- FREE FALL by György Pálfi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai won the Special Jury Prize, the Best Director Award and the Europa Cinemas Label Award.
- Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovsky’s feature film debut project GOAT, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny was the popular winner of the Works in Progress Award.
- FIG TREE by Alamork Marsh, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Saar Yogev won the top prize at the pitching event of Sam Spiegel School’s Jerusalem International Film Lab. Saar Yogev and Naomi Levari of Black Sheep Productions are producing the film which they plan to shoot in Ethiopia.
- FREE RANGE by Veiko Õunpuu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa won the Best Film Award in the Parallels and Encounters programme of the European Film Festival Palic.
- TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson received a Special Mention.
- GLASSLAND by Gerard Barrett, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney and PATRICKS DAY by Terry McMaho, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Rachel Lysaght shared the prize for Best Irish Feature at the 26th Galway Film Fleadh
- ONE MILLION DUBLINERS by Aoife Kelleher, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Rachel Lysaght was awarded Best Irish Feature Documentary
- THE CANAL, written and directed by Ivan Kavanagh, producer: EAVE Film Finance Forum 2011 graduate AnneMarie Naughton, co-produced by EAVE 2010 graduate Sander Verdonk, executive produced by EAVE 1993 graduate Robert Walpole won the Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the Irish festival.
- CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff & EAVE 2009 graduate Misha Jaari, EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller & EAVE 2009 graduate Cecilia Valsted won the Golden Arena for Best Feature Film at the Pula Film Festival.
- THE REAPER by Zvonimir Juric, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic scooped the Golden Arenas for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Cinematography, and the Oktavijan Award by the Croation Film Critics
- AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate André Fetzer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu received a Special Mention
- BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova won Best film award at the Odessa International Film Festival.
- THE BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO by Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Losnitza, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Chisti Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, ,Teresa Villaverde, producer: EAVE+ graduate Titus Kreyenberg wins the Audience Award at the Pesarofilmfest.
- DANCE WITH A BULLET by Dhyaa Kaled Joda, Executive & Co-producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Talal Al-Muhanna has been awarded the SEEN Films editing prize at the Ismailiya International Documentary Film Festival Coproduction Market
- THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, producer: EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina won the CineVision Award, one of the main prizes of the Filmfest München
- WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe, co-producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh received an Honorable Mention.
Page published 1 August 2014. Updated 29 August 2014.
