Jury Prize for THE LOBSTER and nine awards for EAVE graduates in Cannes
Awards May 2015
EAVE graduates have been very successful in Cannes. The following films have been awarded in the official and sidebar sections of the festival:
Competition:
Jury Prize
- THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney, co-producers: EAVE graduate Léontine Petit and EAVE graduate Derk-Jan Warrink
Caméra d'Or
- LAND AND SHADE (LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA) by César Augusto Acevedo, producer: PUENTES graduate Diana Bustamante, co-producer: EAVE graduate Laurette Schillings
Un Certain Regard Award
- RAMS (HRÚTAR) by Grimur Hákornason, co-produced by EAVE participant Ditte Milsted, sales: EAVE graduate Jan Naszewski
Un Certain Regard – Jury Prize
- THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanic, producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Miroslav Mogorovic and EAVE graduate Petra Vidmar
Un Certain Talent Prize
- THE TREASURE by Corneliu Porumboiu, producer: EAVE graduate Marcela Ursu
FIPRESCI Award for best film in Semain de la Critique
- PAULINA by Santiago Mitre, producer: EAVE graduate Didar Domehri
Semaine de la Critique - Grand Prix
- PAULINA by Santiago Mitre, producer: EAVE graduate Didar Domehri
Semaine de la Critique – Prix Revelation
- LAND AND SHADE (LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA) by César Augusto Acevedo, producer: PUENTES graduate Diana Bustamante, co-producer: EAVE graduate Laurette Schillings
Semaine de la Critique – Prix Fondation Gan
- THE WAKHAN FRONT by Clément Cogitore, co-producer: Ties That Bind graduate Valerie Bournonville
Semaine de la Critique – Prix Canal +
- RAMONA by Andrei Cretulescu, co-producer: EAVE Marketing Workshop graduate Radu Stancu
- ScripTeast Special Mention went to scriptwriter Bodo Kox for his project THE MAN WITH THE MAGIC BOX, producer: EAVE participant Izabela Igel.
- THE QUEEN OF SILENCE by Agnieszka Zwiefka, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert received a Honorable Mention by the competition jury of the DOK.fest in Munich.
- Best German Documentary in Munich was FROM THE SIDELINE by Simon Brückner, producer: EAVE graduate Susann Schimk.
- ABOVE AND BELOW by Nicolas Steiner, producer: EAVE graduate Helge Albers won the Documentary Music Award.
- The DOK.fest Award of the SOS Children's Villages went to TOTO AND HIS SISTERS by Alexander Nanau, producer: EAVE graduate Marcian Lazar
- DON'T SWALLOW EVERYTHING by Jana Kalms, Piet Stolz, Sebastian Winkels, producer: EAVE graduate Susann Schimk received the Award of the Subtitle Workshop Münster.
- THE JAPANESE DOG by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producer: EAVE graudate Tudor Giurgiu won the Bridging the Borders award for Best Feature Film at the South East European Film Festival, SEEfest.
- EAVE project THE UNDERTAKER by Dragan Nikolic, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Jovana Nikolic received the Best Documentary Award.
- THE SALT OF THE EARTH by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, producer: EAVE graduate Gian-Piero Ringel was given the Audience Award at the Ökofilmtour 2014 in Potsdam.
- The Millenium Award of the PLANETE+ DOC FILM FESTIVAL at Wroclaw and Warsaw went to ABOVE AND BELOW by Nicolas Steiner, producer: EAVE graduate Helge Albers.
- DRIFTER by Gábor Hörcher, co-producer: EAVE graduate and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann received a Honourable Mention in the Magic Hour Competition.
- PIXADORES by Amir Escandari, Executive producers: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy, EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Sucksdorff wins the Non Fiction Frame competition
- Amnesty International gave the award for the best film regarding the human right issues to THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen.
- The Chopin’s Nose Award sponsored by the National Audiovisual Institute went to IMAGINE WAKING UP TOMORROW AND ALL MUSIC HAS DISAPPEARED by Stefan Schwietert, co-producer: EAVE graduate Helge Albers.
- THE SALT OF THE EARTH by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, producer: EAVE graduate Gian-Piero Ringel was the winner in the Audience Award Competition.
- SCHMITKE by Stephan Altrichter, producer: EAVE graduate Susann Schimk wins two awards at the Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Best Music and Sound and the FIPRESCI Award.
- A GERMAN YOUTH by Jean-Gabriel Périot, producer: EAVE graduate Eugenia Mumenthaler received a Special Jury Mention at the Docaviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival.
- THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING by Isa Qosja, producer: EAVE graduate Shkumbin Istrefi, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards wins the Cyprus Film Days.
- THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen received the Audience Award at DocumentaMadrid.
- THE LAST EXECUTIONER by EAVE graduate Tom Waller, producer: EAVE graduate Tom Waller and Ties That Bind graduate Michael Pritchett won the Special Prize at the DetectiveFEST, Moscow.
- NO ONE’S CHILD by Vuk Rsumovic, producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic wins the Award for Best Film at the goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film.
- The Award of the City of Wiesbaden for Best Director and the International Film Critics Award went to KOZA by Ivan Ostrochovsky, producer: EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny received the
- DRIFTER by Gábor Hörcher, co-producer: EAVE graduate and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann was given a Honourable Mention.
Page published 27 May 2015.
