Finnish Achievement of the Year Award for EAVE Project THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI
Awards September 2016
Venice International Film Festival
- LA REGIÓN SALVAJE (THE UNTAMED) by Amat Eschalante, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors won the Silver Lion for Best Director in the competition of the Venice International Film Festival.
- HOME by Fien Troch, producer: EAVE graduate Antonio Lombardo was awarded Best Director in the Orizzonti section of the festival.
- QUIT STARING AT MY PLATE by Hana Jusic, producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic won Best European Film at the Venice Days
- EAVE project HEARTSTONE by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson, producer: EAVE graduate Anton Mani Svansson received the Queer Lion of the Venice Days.
- THE WOUND by John Trengove, produced by EAVE graduate Elias Ribeiro took home two awards from Final Cut in Venice: sound mixing offered by Mactari Mixing Auditorium (Paris) and digital color correction, for the production of a DCP master and French or English subtitles, offered by Titra Film (Paris)
- EAVE project GHOST HUNTING by Raed Andoni, produced by EAVE graduate Palmyre Badinier also won 15 days of colour grading and the production of a DCP at Final Cut in Venice
Gdynia Film Festival
- THE RED SPIDER by Marcin Koszalka, co-producer: EAVE graduate Michal Kollar wins the Special Jury Prize of the Gdynia Film Festival.
Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers Film Festival
- EAVE project THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI by Juho Kosmanen, producer: EAVE graduate Jussi Rantamäki, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nicklas Wikström Nicastro won the Golden Camera 300, the main award of the Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers Film Festival.
Finnish Film Producers’ Association
- EAVE project THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI by Juho Kosmanen, producer: EAVE graduate Jussi Rantamäki, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nicklas Wikström Nicastro won two awards by the Finnish Film Producers’ Association, honouring last year’s best achievements in Finnish cinema. Kuosmanen was named Best Director, and together with his cinematographer, Jani Petteri Passi, he received the Award for Achievement of the Year.
Film Festival Oostende
- THE ARDENNES by Robin Pront, producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert won most of the Ensors, the Belgian Film Awards, at the Film Festival Oostende. The film scooped seven Ensors for Best Film, Best Scenario (Robin Pront and Jeroen Perceval), Best Actor (Kevin Janssens), Best supporting actor (Jan Bijvoet), Best DoP (Robrecht Heyvaert), Best Costume (Catherine Van Bree) and Best Art Director (Geert Paredis) and an eighth one, the new Industry Prize by the Ensors Academy
- BELGICA by Felix van Groeningen producers: EAVE graduates Laurette Schillings and Frans van Gestel won Best Music
- PROBLEMSKI HOTEL by Manu Riche, producer: EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin was awarded Best Debut.
- THE FIRST, THE LAST by Bouli Lanners, producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart won Best Co-production.
Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival
- EAVE project THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD by Anca M. Lazarescu, producers: Ties That Bind graduate David Lindner and EAVE graduate Verona Meier, co-producers: EAVE graduates Andrea Taschler and Nandor Lovas received the Art cinema award at the Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
- PARK by Sofia Exarchou, producer: EAVE graduate Amanda Livanou received the Kutxabank-New Directors Award
- ALBA by Ana Christina Barragán, producer: EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou won the Horizontes Special Mention
- OSCURO ANIMAL by Felipe Guerrero, producer: EAVE graduate Gema Juárez Allen, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marleen Slot, Ingmar Trost, Vicky Miha received the Spanish Cooperation Award
- THE ODYSSEY by Jérôme Salle, producer: EAVE graduate Henri-Jacques Bronckart won the Greenpeace - Lurra Award
- A HOME by Maura Delpero, co-producer: Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli received a Special Mention and won the ARTE International Prize of the Europe-Latin American Co-Production Forum.
International Film Festival Cinematik
- 5 OCTOBER by Martin Kollar, producer: EAVE participant Katarina Tomkova won the domestic documentary competiton section of the International Film Festival Cinematik, Piestany.
Montreal World Film Festival
- EVERYBODY HAPPY Nic Balthazar, producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert was awarded Best director at the Montreal World Film Festival.
- SWAYING WATERLILY by Seren Yüce, producer: EAVE graduate Gökce Isil Tuna won the Best Script Award at the festival.
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Portorose Slovenian Film Festival
- HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM! by Ziga Virc, co-producers: EAVE graduates Sinisa Juricic, Ingmar Trost wins big at the Portorose Slovenian Film Festival. The film gets the Vesna award for Best feature film and the Iridium Film Award for Best Feature Film, Best actor in a leading role, Best editing,
- NIGHTLIFE by Damjan Kozole, producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Macedonian National Coordinator Labina Mitevska, EAVE graduate and Bosnian National Coordinator Amra Baksic Camo and EAVE graduate Adis Djapo joins with the awards for Best direction, Best actress, Best supporting actor and Best production design.
- FAMILY FILM by Olmo Omerzu, producer: EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny was awarded Best screenplay
- MOTHER by Vlado Skafar, producer: EAVE graduate Frenk Celarc gets the award for Best cinematography and the Slovenian Federation of Film Critics Award
- COME ALONG by Igor Sterk, co-producer: EAVE graduate Petra Vidmar wins Best music, Best sound, the award for special achievement, the Slovene Art Cinema Association Award and the Audience Award.
Finnish Film Affair
- TOM OF FINLAND by Dome Karukoski, producers: EAVE graduates Aleksy Bardi and Annika Sucksdorff and POST PUNK DISORDER by Jukka Kärkkäinen and JP Passi, co-producer: EAVE group leader Lise Lense Møller share the Pitch Award at the Finnish Film Affair in Helsinki.
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Holland Film Meeting
- TEHRAN, CITY OF LOVE, written and directed by Ali Jaberansari, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot won the Warnier Posta Prize at Holland Film Meeting 2016.
Page published 27 September 2016. Updated 29 September 2016.
