EAVE projects THE JUDGMENT and the ACT OF KILLING win main prizes in Sofia
Awards March 2014
- BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN by Felix van Groeningen, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Laurette Schillings won the César for Best Foreign Film at the French Academy Awards.
- L'INCONNU DU LAC by Alain Guiraudie, co-producer: EAVE Film Finance Forum 2010 graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis received a César for Best Male Rising Star.
- CHILD’S POSE by Calin Peter Netzer, producers: EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon and EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu won eight awards and the Audience Award at the Gopo Awards, the Romanian film industry awards. The trophies for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing and Best Sound went to the team of CHILD’S POSE.
- Victor Rebengiuc won his second Gopo for Best Actor for THE JAPANESE DOG by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu.
- DOMESTIC by Adrian Sitaru, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan won the Gopo for Best Art Direction (Cristian Niculescu).
EAVE producers have been very successful at the Sofia International Film Festival:
- BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova received the Grand Prix for best film, the award for Best Director and the FIPRESCI Award.
- 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 was awarded Best Documentary.
- EAVE 2011 project THE JUDGMENT directed and produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Stephan Komandarev was given the Award for best Bulgarian Film and
- NEVER LET IT GO by Paul Negoescu, producer: EAVE Film Marketing Workshop 2012 graduate Radu Stancu won the Hungarian Filmlab Award for best project in the ‘Second Film Projects’ Programme of Sofia Meetings.
- DEDE by Mariam Khachvani, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Vladimer Katcharava was given the LVT Post Production Award.
- THE PRINCESS OF EGYPT by Jan Forsström, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho won the first prize at the Bergamo Film Meeting
- WOLF by Jim Taihuttu, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Julius Ponten received the third prize at the festival.
- LOVE ME by Maryna Er Gorbach, Mehmet Bahadir Er, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova won the Directors Week Jury’s Special Award, Best Screenplay Award and the Critics Award at the International Film Festival of Porto.
- TWO LIVES by Georg Maas, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Rudi Teichmann won the award for Best Screenplay at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Ireland.
- THE CONGRESS by Ari Folman, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate David Grumbach and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum received the Jury Prize.
- EAVE 2008 project LOVE ETERNAL, written and directed by Brendan Muldowney, producers EAVE 2010 graduate Conor Barry, EAVE 2004 graduate Morgan Bushe and EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher was awarded Best Irish Feature.
- MATAR A UN HOMBRE by EAVE PUENTES 2013 Eduardo Villalobos was awarded Best Director in the official competition and the FIPRESCI prize for Best Film at the International FF of Cartagena. The film also won the Miami Future Cinema Critics Award at the Miami International Film Festival.
- A STRANGER by Bobo Jelcic, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Zdenka Gold won the Prix Fiction et Droits humains at the International Film Festival On Human Rights Geneva.
Page published 27 March 2014. Updated 28 March 2014.
