MASTER OF LIGHT Best Documentary at SXSW 2022

Awards March 2022

Eurimages

• MELVILLE by Romain Renard & Fursy Teyssier, producers: EAVE graduate Anne-Laure Guegan and PUENTES graduate Géraldine Sprimont won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award. Lead by Belgian producer, Need Productions, partnering with French companies Creative Touch and Special Touch Studios, the script was written by Olivier Tollet from the graphic novel by Romain Renard and will be codirected by Renard and Fursy Teyssier. This Eurimages development award will enable the companies to contin­ue their project development and to find a 3rd partner to begin the journey to production. 

www.needproductions.com

 

César Awards

• Five Césars for ANNETTE by Leos Carax, co-producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland at the French Academy Awards. The film scooped Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, Best Editing and Best Visual Effects.
• ONODA – 10 000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE by Arthur Harari, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Jean-Yves Roubin won the César for Best Original Screenplay.

www.academie-cinema.org/palmares

 

Flemish Film and Television Awards

• DEALER by Jeroen Perceval, co-producer: TTB graduate Valérie Bournonville dominated at the Ensors. Perceval’s first feature film won no less than 9 prizes at the Flemish Film and Television Awards. DEALER won Best Film, but also Best Sound, Best Make-up, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Music, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director.

www.tarantula.be

 

Dublin International Film Festival

• SMALL BODY by Laura Samani, producers: EAVE graduates Nadia Trevisan, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar won Best Director at the Dublin International Film Festival.
• HIVE by Blerta Basholli, producer: EAVE graduate Valon Bajgora, co-producer: EAVE+ and PUENTES graduate Britta Rindelaub was awarded Best Debut Feature

www.diff.ie

 

Luxembourg City Film Festival

• NOCHE DE FUEGO by Tatiana Huezo, producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler won the Critics Award and a Special Mention at the Luxembourg City Film Festival.
• WHERE IS ANNE FRANK? by Ari Folmann, producer: EAVE + Head of Studies Jani Thiltges received the School Jury Award

www.luxfilmfest.lu

 

Sofia International Film Festival

5 Awards for EAVE graduates at the Sofia International Film Festival:

• HUMBLE by Svetoslav Draganov, producer: EAVE graduate Katya Trichkova, Oana Iancu won the Special Jury Award
• EAVE project JANUARY by Andrey Paounov, producer: EAVE graduate Vanya Rainova was awarded Best Director
• MURINA by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, co-producers: EAVE graduates Zdenka Gold, Miha Cernec, EAVE graduate and National Coordinator Slovenia Jozko Rutar won Best Balkan Film
• THE WINDSEEKER by Mihai Sofronea, producers: EAVE graduates Tudorg Giurgiu, Bogdan Craciun, co-producer: EAVE graduate Borislav Chouchkov received the FIPRESCI Award
• FISH BONE by Dragomir Sholev, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon won the Award of the Bulgarian Film Critics.  

https://siff.bg/en

 

Swiss Film Prize

• Three awards for at OLGA by Elie Grappe, producer: EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt at the Swiss Film Prize 2022. The film won Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Sound.

www.swissfilms.ch

 

International Film Festival and Forum for Human Rights (FIFDH)

• VERA DREAMS OF THE SEA by Kaltrina Krasniqi, producer: EAVE graduate Shkumbin Istrefi won the Grand Prize Fiction and the Youth Jury Prize at the International Film Festival and Forum for Human Rights (FIFDH), Geneva.

www.fifdh.org

 

M:brane

• Producer Maria Stevnbak Westergren from Toolbox in Copenhagen, Denmark won the 2022 EAVE Marketing Workshop scholarship in collaboration with m:brane at the M:brane financing forum for youth media in Malmö, Sweden.

https://mbrane.se

 

Mons International Film Festival

• AS FAR AS I CAN WALK by Stefan Arsenijevic, co-producer: EAVE graduate Borislav Chouchkov was awarded Best Screenplay at the Mons International Film Festival 
• HIVE by Blerta Basholli, producer: EAVE graduate Valon Bajgora, co-producer: EAVE+ and PUENTES graduate Britta Rindelaub won Best Acting Performance (Sophie Breyer)

www.festival-de-mons.be

 

Czech Film and Television Academy Awards

• INTENSIVE LIFE UNIT by Adela Komrzy, producer: EAVE graduate Pavla Janouskova Kubeckova was awarded Best Documentary at the Czech Lions, the Czech Film and Television Academy Awards.

www.filmovaakademie.cz/en

 

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

4 awards for EAVE graduates at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival:

• A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS by Simon Lereng Wilmont, producer: EAVE graduate Monica Hellström won the Golden Alexander and the FIPRESCI Award
• YOUNG PLATO by Neasa Ni Chianain, Declan McGrath, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo was awarded the Special Jury Prize
• GOLDEN LAND by Inka Achté, producer: EAVE graduate Liisa Karpo won the Golden Alexander - Dimitri Eipides

www.filmfestival.gr

 

Belgrade International Film Festival FEST

• SISTERHOOD by Dina Duma, co-producer: EAVE graduate Guillaume de Seille won Best Director at the Belgrade International Film Festival FEST
• THE STAFFROOM by Sonja Tarokic, producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic won Best Debut
• DARKLING (MRAK) by Dusan Milic, producers: EAVE graduates Konstantina Stavrianou and Snezana van Houwelingen received the Nebojsa Djukelic Award
• AS FAR AS I CAN WALK by Stefan Arsenijevic, co-producer: EAVE graduate Borislav Chouchkov won the Milutin Colic Award

www.fest.rs/en

 

SXSW Film Festival

• IT IS IN US ALL by Antonia Campbell-Hughes, producer: EAVE participant Tamryn Reinecke received a Special Jury Recognition for Extraordinary Cinematic Vision
• MASTER OF LIGHT by Rosa Ruth Boesten, Producer: EAVE participant Ilja Roomans wins Best Documentary Feature

www.sxsw.com

Page published 31 March 2022.