IDA wins the European Film Awards and the Lux Prize
Awards December 2014
- EAVE is proud to congratulate EAVE 2010 graduate Snežana Maric for her new position as Head of the of Serbian Film Centre!
- IDA by Pawel Pawlikowski, co-producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Christian Falkenberg Husum is the winner of the European Parliament's LUX Prize 2014. The prize, decided on the basis of a vote by the Members of the European Parliament, is intended to celebrate the diversity and the social relevance of cinema in Europe. The LUX Prize was handed out by the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz.
European Film Awards
- IDA by Pawel Pawlikowski, co-producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Christian Falkenberg Husum has also won five prizes at the European Film Awards. The black and white film scooped the prizes for best European film, best director, best script, best cinematography and the People’s Choice audience award.
- MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE by Marc Bauder, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Michael Kitzberger was awarded best European Documentary 2014.
- Best Short Film 2014 is THE CHICKEN by Uma Gunjak, co-producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic and B’EST 2013 graduate Jelena Goldbach
- Best European actress is Marion Cotillard in TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
- EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney received the European Co-production Award 2014 – Prix Eurimages.
- IDA by Pawel Pawlikowski, co-producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Christian Falkenberg Husum has received the award for Best Foreign Film by the New York Film Critics Circle 2014.
- THESE ARE THE RULES by Ognjen Svilicic, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Janja Kralj won the Grand Prix of the Jury at the Les Arcs European Film Festival.
- Bianca Kronlöf was awarded Best Actress with UNDERDOG by Ronnie Sandahl, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Hellström
- FRANK by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney won Best Music
- WASTELAND by Pieter Van Hees, producer: Film Finance Forum 2008 graduate Carolien Vergote received the Prix Cineuropa
- PIONEER HEROES by Natalia Kudryashova, associate producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Natalia Drozd won the work in progress session and THE VOICE by György Pálfi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai won the projects in development award at Les Arcs.
- PUENTES 2012 project LUCIFER by Gust Van den Berghe, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers wins the Black Nights Grand Prix at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
- The Audience Award went to WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS by Taika Waititi, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Chelsea Winstanley.
- The Award for the Best Cinematographer in the Tridens competition was given to Fredrik Wenzel for THE QUIET ROAR by Henrik Hellstrom, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Erika Wasserman
- The Baltic Event Best Pitch Award was awarded to IMPALED REKTUM by Jukka Vidgren, Juuso Laanto, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho
- EAVE 2014 project KILLER’S FEE, produced by EAVE 2014 graduate Emma K. Dixgård won the Digital Sputnik Award
- FRANK by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney was awarded Best Screenplay and the Prize for Best Technical Achievement at the British Independent Film Awards BIFA.
- DRIFTER by Gábor Hörcher, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Jonas Weydemann won the IDFA Award for First Appearance at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
- NAZIHA’S SPRING by Gülsah Dogan, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin was awarded the BankGiro Loterij IDFA Audience Award
- PUENTES 2013 project AGOSTO by Armando Capó, producer: Puentes 2013 graduate Marcela Esquivel Jiménez won the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival Amiens.
- MOTHER, I LOVE YOU by Janis Nords, producer B’EST 2012 graduate Alise Gelze was named best Latvian feature film and won the awards for best director, best actress and the audience award at the Riga International Film Festival.
- MODRIS produced by EAVE 2014 graduate Vicky Miha was awarded Best Debut, Best Actress and People's Choice Award at the Latvian National Film Awards.
- LOS HONGOS, by Oscar Ruiz Navia, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Titus Kreyenberg won the Opera Prima Award at the REC Tarragona International Film Festival and a Special Mention by the Jury of the Association of Catalan Film Critics and Journalists.
- NO ONE’S CHILD by Vuk Rsumovic, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic received the Audience Award.
- XENIA by Panos Koutras, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Alexandra Boussiou, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye received the Special Prize of the Jury at the Gijon Film Festival.
- SONG OF THE SEA by Tomm Moore, producter: EAVE 2006 graduate Isabelle Truc was awarded the ANIMAFICX Prize.
- QUATSCH UND DIE NASENBÄRBANDE, directed and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer won the EnfantsTerribles Prize as best feature film for Kids.
- THE DOMINO EFFECT by Piotr Roslowski & Elwira Niewiera, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Anna Wydra and EAVE 2013 graduate Ann Carolin Renninger won the Golden Dove in the German competition of the Leipzig Dok Festival.
- JAUJA by Lisandro Alonso, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Helle Ulsteen won the Colón de Plata for Best Photography at the Ibero-American Film Festival of Huelva.
- I AM THE PEOPLE by Anna Roussillon, producer: TIES THAT BIND 2014 graduate Karim Aituna won the Grand Prix Janine Bazin and the Audience Award at the EntreVues Belfort Film Festival.
- FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON by Gábor Reisz, co-producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Turin Film Festival.
- Two of three Production Awards at this year’s TorinoFilmLab Meeting went to EAVE graduates EAVE 2014 project THE WOUND by John Trengove, producer: EAVE 2014 graduate Elias Ribeiro and HUNTING SEASON by Natalia Garagiola, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Benjamin Domenech
- The ARTE International Prize went to HOME by Fien Troch, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Antonio Lombardo, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- EAVE 2013 project PIGS ON THE WIND by Stergios Paschos, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Phaedra Vokali won the Post-Production Award EP2C.
- THE VOICE by György Pálfi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai was given the Les Arcs Coproduction Village Prize.
- EL 5 DE TALLERES by Adrián Biniez, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Augusta Chiarino was awarded Best Director of an Argentine Feature at the Mar del Plata Film Festival.The Silver Astor for Best Screenplay went to THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, EAVE+ graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina.
- The Russian ballet documentary THE NEW CZAR by Alejandro Alvarez and Ulrik Wivel, co-producers: EAVE 2013 graduate Talal Al-Muhanna and Puentes 2012 graduate Katrin Pors won the Czech Television Prize and the Grand Prix of the International Television Festival in Prague.
- MODRIS produced by EAVE 2014 graduate Vicky Miha has won Best Director at the Tbilisi Film Festival
- CORN ISLAND von George Ovashvili, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille was awarded Best Actor
- BRIDES (PATARDZLEBI), produced and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili received the award for Best Actress.
- AM ENDE DER MILCHSTRASSE by Leopold Grün & Dirk Uhlig, producer: EAVE graduate Karsten Stöter was given the Bild-Kunst editing award for documentary films at the Filmplus Festival in Cologne.
Page published 22 December 2014. Updated 23 December 2014.
