EAVE 2006 project KEEP SMILING nominated one of 10 best films of the last decade @ Venice Days
Nominations August 2013
- EAVE 2006 project KEEP SMILING, directed and produced by Rusudan Chkonia, co-producers: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman & EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges has been nominated as one of the ten best films from the last decade shown at Venice Days.
Two projects from EAVE producers have been selected by this year’s Netherlands Production Platform NPP, taking place in September in Utrecht:
- DO YOU LOVE ME produced by EAVE 2012 graduate Dagne Vildziunaite
- SCAPPERS! A NORTHERN WESTERN by Max Zähle, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Dirk Decker
Selected for the Toronto International Film Festival are:
- EAVE 2008 project 82 DAYS IN APRIL by Bart Van den Bempt, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Ellen De Waele, co-producer EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper and line producer EAVE 2009 graduate Serkan Cakarer
- BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova
- CHILD’S POSE by Calin Peter Netzer, producers: EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon and EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu
- CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff & EAVE 2009 graduate Misha Jaari, EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjellson, EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller & EAVE 2009 graduate Cecilia Valsted
- FRIENDS FROM FRANCE by Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski, co-producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Hanneke van der Tas
- HEART OF A LION by Dome Karukoski, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy
- HONEYMOON by Jan Hrebejk producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Michal Kollar
- LIFE’S A BREEZE by Lance Daly, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher and EAVE 2002 graduate Martin Persson
- L'INCONNU DU LAC by Alain GUIRAUDIE, co-producer: EAVE Film Finance Forum 2010 graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis
- MARINA by Stijn Coninx, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
- OKTOBER NOVEMBER by Götz Spielmann, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Antonin Svoboda
- PALESTINE STEREO by Rashid Masharawi, producer: PCB Dubai 2009 graduate Habib Attia
- STANDING ASIDE, WATCHING by Yorgos Servetas, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis
- STAY by Wiebke von Carolsfeld, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland
- WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM by Corneliu Porumboiu, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Marcela Ursu
Five EAVE producers have been selected for the Producers Lab Toronto:
- EAVE 2011 graduate David Grumbach, Juliette Films (Luxembourg)
- EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly, Bl!nder Films (Ireland)
- EAVE 2007 graduate SiniĊĦa Juricic, Nukleus Film (Croatia)
- EAVE 2007 graduate Leila Lyytikäinen, Fisher King Production (Finland)
- EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit, Lemming Film (The Netherlands)
Following films are selected for the San Sebastián International Film Festival:
- CANNIBAL by Manuel Martin Cuenca, co-producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu and EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu
- OKTOBER NOVEMBER by Götz Spielmann, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Antonin SvobodaGloria
- PUENTES 2011 project HISTORY OF FEAR by Benjamin Naishtat, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Benjamin Domenech
- TO KILL A MAN by Alejandro Fernandez Almendras, co-producers: EAVE PUENTES 2013 participant Eduardo Villalobos and EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
- EAVE 2010 project THE ACT OF KILLING by Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen and EAVE 2011 graduate Anne Köhncke is one of three films on the shortlist for the Danish candidate for the 2013 Oscar as Best Foreign-Language Feature.
In Germany, nine films are on the shortlist for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar. Among them:
- OH BOY by Jan Ole Gerster, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh
- TWO LIVES by Georg Maas, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Rudi Teichmann
- Romania picks CHILD’S POSE by Calin Peter Netzer, producers: EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon and EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu as Best Foreign Film contender.
Page published 28 August 2013. Updated 29 August 2013.


