EAVE project MARINA wins 6 main Flemish Film Awards
Awards September 2014
- THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
- The Venice Days Award went to RETURN TO ITHACA by Laurent Cantet, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Didar Domehri.
- The FEDEORA jury (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean) awarded EAVE 2011 project FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by Diep Nguyen Hoang, producer: TIES THAT BIND 2011 graduate David Lindner Best Film in the 29. Venice International Film Critics’ Week.
The winning projects of the HFM Co-Production Platform 2014 are:
- A SHINING FLAW by Erwin Olaf, produced by EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert received the Cam-a-lot & Filmmore Cinema Emerging Talent Prize for the Best Project
- I WANT TO BE LIKE YOU by Konstantin Bojanov, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Janja Kralj was given the Warnier Posta Prize
- GAME OVER, written and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Olena Fetisova won the Inciteable-Development Award
- EAVE 2013 project DUST CLOTH, producer EAVE 2013 graduate Nesra Gürbüz was awarded the Filmmore HFM Work-in-Progress Prize in combination with the HFM Coaching Prize
- PARADISE TRIPS by Raf Reyntjens, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Peter De Maegd won the Haghefilm International Post-Production Prize
- Having already swept the Jussi awards – the Finnish national film prize – winning six categories, including Best Film and Best Director, CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff, EAVE 2009 graduate Misha Jaari, co-produced by EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller & EAVE 2009 graduate Cecilia Valsted, received the top prizes at the Finnish Film Week. Pirjo Honkasalo and producers Mark Lwoff and Misha Jaari were awarded for Best Director and Best Producers. CONCRETE NIGHT was selected as the country’s candidate for the Oscar nomination for Best Foreign-language Film.
- EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert was the overall winner at the Ensors, the Flemish film awards in Oostende.
- EAVE 2009 project MARINA by Stijn Coninx, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert took home the three main awards at the Ensors. The film won Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, Best Production Design and Best Costumes, as well as the Industry Award.
- THE VERDICT by Jan Verheyen, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert received Best Actor (Koen De Bouw) as well as Best Cinematography and Best Editing.
- THE TREATMENT by Hans Herbots, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert won Best Supporting Actor (Johan Van Assche)
- LABYRINTHUS by Douglas Boswell, producers: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert, EAVE 2011 graduate Floor Onrust won the Ensor for Best Newcomer (Spencer Bogaert).
- TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert was awarded Best Belgian Co-production.
- LOS ÁNGELES by Damian John Harper, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann won the prestigious FIRST STEPS AWARD in Germany. The award ceremony took place mid September in Berlin.
- PUENTES 2013 project AGOSTO by Armando Capó, producer: Puentes 2013 graduate Marcela Esquivel Jiménez was awarded best project at the Forum Co-production Europa-América Latina at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
- THE SALT OF THE EARTH by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Gian-Piero Ringel won the Audience Award at the festival.
- MODRIS by Juris Kursietis, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Ingmar Trost received a Special Mention for New Directors.
- MAGALLANES, co-poducer: PUENTES 2009 graduate Enid Campos won the Cine en Construccion Award
- MELODY by Bernard Bellefroid, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges was awarded Best Actress and a Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury at the Montreal World Film Festival.
- THE CHAMBERMAID LYNN by Ingo Haeb, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Ingmar Trost won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Artistic Contribution.
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- FRANK by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney won the Grand Prix of the Batumi Film Festival.
- BRIDES (PATARDZLEBI), produced and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili received the Jury Special Prize
- THE LUNCHBOX by Ritesh Batra, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Karsten Stöter won best actor
- CURE by Andrea Staka, co-producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Amira Kresevljakovic was awarded best actress (Sylvie Marinkovic)
Page published 29 September 2014. Updated 30 September 2014.
