EAVE Marketing Workshop project FLOW triumphs at the Oscars
Awards March 2025
American Academy Awards – the Oscars
EAVE graduates scooped 8 Oscars at the American Academy Film Awards:
- EAVE Marketing Workshop project FLOW by Gints Zibalodis, produced and co-written by EAVE Marketing Workshop graduate Matiss Kaza won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature
- THE BRUTALIST by Bradley Corbet, co-producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petranyi won Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score
- EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques Audiard, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis won Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song
- CONCLAVE by Edward Berger, executive producer: EAVE FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa won Best Adapted Screenplay
- I'M NOT A ROBOT by Victoria Warmerdam, producer: Interchange graduate Trent won Best Live Action Short Film.
French César Awards
11 awards for EAVE graduates at the 50th French Césars:
- EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques Audiard, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis scooped 7 trophies: Best Film, Best Director, Best Adaptation, Best Original Music, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects
- EAVE Marketing Workshop project FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE graduate Matiss Kaza won Best Animated Film
- LA FERME DES BERTRAND by Gilles Perret, producer: EAVE graduate Ulysse Payet won Best Documentary
- THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT by Nebojsa Slijepcevic, producers: EAVE graduates Katarina Prpic, Danijel Pek, co-producers: EAVE graduates Katya Trichkova, Bostjan Virc won Best Fiction Short
- LES FINANCEES DU SUD by Elena López Riera, producer: EAVE graduate Alejandro Arenas Azorin won Best Documentary Short
Finnish Jussi Awards
- STORMSKERRY MAJA by Tiina Lymi, producer: EAVE graduate Jukka Helle wins big at the Finnish Jussi Awards. The film won Best Film, Best Director, Best Leading Role (Amanda Jansson), Best Music, Best Editing, Best Set Design and the Audience Award.
- THE MISSILE by Miia Tervo, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Finnish National Coordinator Evelin Penttilä won Best Script, Best Costume Design
- SHADOWLAND by Otso Tiainen, executive producers: EAVE graduates Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff won Best Sound Design
Polish Film Awards
- THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE by Magnus von Horn, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marius Wlodarski won the Polish Film Awards. The film scooped Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Vic Carmen Sonne) Best Supporting Actress (Trine Dyrholm), Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Costumes, Best Make-up, Best Production Design
- WHITE COURAGE by Marcin Koszalka, producer: EAVE graduate Magdalena Kaminska won Best Actor (Filip Plawiak)
Swiss Film Awards
- PUENTES project REINAS by Klaudia Reynicke, producers: PUENTES and EAVE+ graduate Britta Rindelaub, EAVE graduate Thomas Reichlin has scooped the Swiss Film Award for Best Fiction Film
- ELECTRIC CHILD by Simon Jaquemet, producers: EAVE + graduate Titus Kreyenberg, EAVE graduate Raymond van der Kaaij, TTB graduate and group leader Bianca Balbuena, TTB graduate Bradley Liew won Best Cinematography
- THE TRAITOR by Michael Krummenacher, producer: EAVE graduate Ivan Madeo won Best Male Performance (Dimitri Krebs)
- RIVERBOOM by Claude Baechtold, producer: EAVE graduate Katia Monla won Best Editing
- SOUTHERN BRIDES by Elena Lopez Riera, producer: EAVE graduate Eugenia Mumenthaler won Best Short Film
Icelandic Edda Awards
- WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS by Runar Runarsson, co-producer: EAVE graduate Raymond van der Kaaij wins Film of the Year, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Elín Hall), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Katla Njálsdóttir), Best Visual Effects
- O by Runar Runarsson, co-producer: EAVE graduate Siri Hjorton Wagner wins Short Film of the Year
Czech Lion Awards
- WAVES by Jiri Madl, co-producer: EAVE graduate Wanda Adamik Hrycova won Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Tatiana Pauhofová ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Stanislav Majer), Best Screenplay, Best Sound and the Film Fans’ Award
- I’M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE by Klara Tasovska, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jakub Viktorin won Best Documentary, Best Film Editing
- YEAR OF THE WIDOW by Veronika Liskova, producer: EAVE graduate Tomáš Michálek, co-producer: EAVE graduate Miljenka Cogelja won Best Actress in a Leading Role (Pavla Beretová)
- GIRL AMERICA by Viktor Taus, producer: EAVE MW graduate Peter Badac won Best Cinematography, Best Stage Design, Best Costume Design and Best Film Poster
- EAVE Marketing Workshop project LIVING LARGE by Kristina Dufkova, co-producer: EAVE MW graduate Agata Novinski won Best Animated Film and Best Music
Series Mania
- THE DEAL, producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart won the first ever Buyers Choice Award in Series Mania’s Buyers Upfront initiative
CPH:DOX
- CHANGE project MISSING IN ACTION by Kateryna Holovko, Marharyta Melnychuk, producer: CHANGE graduate Aliona Kachkan received the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Award.
Millennium Docs Against Gravity offered an award to a project selected from those presented at CHANGE. The prize includes industry accreditation to the 22nd MDAG for two team members, as well as accommodation and travel expenses and a place at the main pitching session, the Progress Pitching Session at MDAG Industry, along with preparatory training with tutors.
Sofia International Film Festival
- HONEY MOON by Zhanna Ozirna, producer: EAVE graduate Dmytro Shukanov won the Sofia City of Film Award and the Young Jury Award
- CAT’S CRY by Sanja Zivkovic, executive producer: EAVE graduate Nevena Savic won the Special Jury Award
- WINDLESS by Pavel G. Vesnakov, producer: EAVE graduate Veselka Kiryakova, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Alessandro Amato won Best Bulgarian Feature Film and the FIPRESCI Award
- TRIUMPH by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, producer: EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou, Veselka Kiryakova won the Award of the Bulgarian Guild of Film Critics and a Special Mention
- SILENT OBSERVERS by Eliza Petkova, producer: EAVE graduate Veselka Kiryakova received a Special Mention
Sofia Meetings
3 awards for EAVE graduates at Sofia Meetings:
- THE PASSPORT by Rakan Mayasi, producer: EAVE graduate May Odeh won the Chaos VFX Award and the EWA BG Award
- CONTRE-JOUR by Antonia Milcheva, producer: EAVE graduate Katya Trichkova won the Cinelab Romania Award
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
- COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! By Amber Fares, producer: EAVE graduate Valérie Montmartin wins the Golden Alexander in the International Competition and the Human Rights in Motion Award
- UNDER THE FLAGS, THE SUN by Juanjo Pereira, producers: PUENTES graduates Gabriela Sabaté, Paula Zyngierman, Leandro Listorti wins the Human Values Award of the Hellenic Parliament
Agora Awards
- BUGBOY by Lucas Paleocrassas, producer: EAVE graduate Rea Apostolides, co-producer: EAVE graduate Maria Stevnback Westergren received a Special Mention and the Onassis Film Award
- MAMA KLORIN by Doreida Xhogu, producer: EAVE graduate Mina Dreki won the ERT – Thessaloniki Pitching Forum Award
- MY AUNTIES by Hazal Hanquet, producer: EAVE graduate Anna Maria Aslanoğlu won the Aylon Productions Digital Award and the DOK Leipzig Accelerator Award
- OH’ HEART, DON’T BE AFRAID by Ana Kvichidze, producer: CHANGE and MW graduate Mariam Bitsadze won the MFI Doc Lab Script 2 Film Workshop Award
- HOME COURT by Elpida Nikou, Rodrigo Hernandez, producer: EAVE graduate Rea Apostolides, co-producer: EAVE graduate Boris Despodov won the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece Award
https://www.filmfestival.gr/en/documentary-festival
International Film Festival On Human Rights Geneva
- EAVE project THE BRINK OF DREAMS by Nada Riyadh and EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir, producer: EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir won the FIFDH Geneva Grand Award
- COSMOS by Germinal Roaux, producer: EAVE graduate Sandino Saravia Vinay received a Special Mention
- IN THE LAND OF BROTHERS by Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi, producer: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve won the Youth Jury Award
One World International Human Rights Film Festival
- SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH by Olha Zhurba, producers: EAVE graduates Darya Bassel, Anne Köhncke was awarded Best Film at the One World International Human Rights Film Festival
- DEMOCRACY NOIR by Connie Field, co-producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert won the Regional Jury Award
- EAVE project THE BRINK OF DREAMS by Nada Riyadh and EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir, producer: EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir won the Vàclav Havel Jury Award for Best Film
East Doc Platform
- INNER LANDSCAPES by Zofia Sawicka, producer: EAVE graduate Maciej Kubicki won the East Doc Platform Award 2025 and the DocsBarcelona Award
- OPERATION CHAMPION by Mariam Nikolaishvil, producer: CHANGE graduate Irina Gelashvili won the Al Jazeera Balkans DFF Award and the Baltic Sea Docs Award
- SPORT TO THE PEOPLE by Duro Gavran, producer: EAVE graduate Miljenka Cogelja won The Golden Funnel Award - Docuseries
- BE REALISTIC, DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE by Vanja Jambrovic, producer: EAVE graduate Vanja Jambrovic, Tibor Keser won the Ex Oriente Fine Cut Award
- A SONG WITHOUT HOME by Rati Tsiteladze, producer: CHANGE graduate Olga Slusarev won the Silver Eye Award
- FROZEN OCEAN by Viktória Dénes, producer: EAVE graduate Julianna Ugrin won the Pitch the Doc Prize, the Sheffield DocFest Networking Award and the MIA Market Award
- RECOVERY by Roman Bondarchuk, producer: EAVE graduate Darya Bassel won the DOK Leipzig DOK Co-Pro Market Award
Mons International Film Festival
- THE SWEDISH TORPEDO by Frida Kempff, producers: EAVE graduates David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski, Elina Litvinova, EAVE graduate and group leader Riina Sildos won the Grand Prize of the Mons International Film Festival
Luxembourg City Film Festival
- THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME by Bogdan Muresanu, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ada Solomon won the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI Award at the Luxembourg City Film Festival
- THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo Harawe, producer: EAVE graduate Oliver Neumann, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards received the Prix 2030 Award and a Special Mention
- YOUNG HEARTS by Anthony Schatteman, producer: EAVE graduate Xavier Rombaut, co-producers: EAVE graduates Floor Onrust, Annabella Nezri received a Special Mention
Febiofest Bratislava
- LESSON LEARNED by Balint Szimler, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Hungarian National Coordinator Julia Berkes, EAVE graduate Viktoria Petranyi won Best Feature Film
- FRAGMENTS OF ICE by Maria Stoianova, producer: EAVE graduate Carsten Aanonsen won Best Documentary
https://febiofest.sk/en/febiofest-en/
Malaga Film Festival
- PUENTES project THE EXILES (LOS TORTUGA) by Belén Funes, producer: PUENTES and TTB graduate Giancarlo Nasi won the Silver Biznaga for Best Director, for Best Screenplay, the Special Jury Award and the Signis Award in the Fiction Feature Competition
- FURY by Gemma Blasco, producer: PUENTES graduate and EAVE participant Mireilla Graell won the Silver Biznaga for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ángela Cervantes), for Best Supporting Actor (Àlex Mon) and for Best Editing
- THE REMNANTS OF YOU by Gala Garcia, producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo d’Ursi won the Silver Biznaga for Best Original Score
Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris
- APRIL by Dea Kulumbegashvili, producer: EAVE graduate Archil Gelovani won Best Film at the Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris.
- THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME by Bogdan Muresanu, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ada Solomon received a Special Mention
- O by Runar Runarsson, co-producer: EAVE graduate Siri Hjorton Wagner won Best Short
- SEA SALT by Leila Basma, producer: PUENTES graduate Natalia Pavlove received a Special Mention
- THE PEASANTS by DK and Hugh Welchman, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jelena Angelovski, Jan Naszewski won the Audience Award and Best Lithuanian Premiere
Winners of Meeting Point Vilnius
- TTB project CHINA SEA by Jurgis Matulevičius, producers: TTB graduate Ieva Cern, EAVE graduates Marta Gmosinska, Jakub Kostal won Best Lithuanian Co-production
- I AM GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD by Inesa Kurklietyte, producer: EAVE graduate Zivile Gallego received the Marché du Film – Producers Network Accreditation
- INDEPENDENT CHILD won Best Lithuanian Project in Development and the Content Licensing Award
CARTOON MOVIE Bordeaux
- EAVE Marketing Workshop project FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE MW graduate Matiss Kaza won Producers of the Year. The producer team made history by winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the most recent Academy Awards. Initially presented at Cartoon Movie in 2022, FLOW premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was subsequently recognised at Annecy, the Golden Globes, and the European Film Awards, among others.
- ROCK BOTTOM by Maria Trenor, producer: EAVE graduate Alba Sotorra Clua won Director of the Year
Association of French Film Critics
The Association of French Film Critics has crowned the best films of 2024:
- EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques Audiard, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis won Best French film
- SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD by Anna Hints, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Ostrat won Best Foreign Film
Page published 31 March 2025. Updated 3 April 2025.
