Nominations and Awards April 2012
Main Prizes of the Istanbul Film Festival for EAVE graduates
Nominations
Two films by EAVE graduates are nominated for the German Film Awards:
- STOPPED ON TRACK by Andreas Dresen: producer: EAVE group leader Peter Rommel
- HUT IN THE WOODS (DIE SUMME MEINER EINZELNEN TEILE) by Hans Weingartner, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach
Awards
- BEYOND THE HILL by Emin Alper, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Enis Köstepen won The Golden Tulip Best National Film Award, The Best Screenplay of The Year Award and the FIPRESCI Award at the Istanbul International Film Festival.
- THE LONELIEST PLANET by Julia Lotev, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate and group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers was awarded The Golden Tulip International Competition Award
- The Special Jury Prize in the International Competition was given to OSLO, AUGUST 31st by Joachim Trier, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen.
- EAVE 2010 project CRULIC – THE PATH TO BEYOND, directed and produced by EAVE 2010 graduate Anca Damian a special jury mention.
- The Silver Méliès by the European Jury and the Audience Prize of the Brussels International Fantasy Festival goes to IRON SKY by Timo Vuorensola, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Oliver Damian
- THE LONELIEST PLANET by Julia Lotev, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate and group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers won the awards for best film and best actress at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival.
- TABU by Miguel Gomes, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach was awarded as the second best film
- STOPPED ON TRACK by Andreas Dresen: producer: EAVE group leader Peter Rommel won the best actors award at the festival.
- AURORA by Christi Puiu, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Dan Wechsler won three Gopo Awards including Best Romanian film in 2011, best director for Cristi Puiu and best script, despite the fact that the producer Anca Puiu withdrew the film from the nomination process.
- OUTBOUND by Bogdan George Apetri, co-producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer won the award for leading actress Ana Ularu, best supporting actress Ioana Flora, best debut film, best cinematography and best editing.
- BEST INTENTIONS by Adrian Sitaru, producers: EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon, EAVE 2005 graduate Emöke Vagasi and EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Lazurean Gorgan, won awards for leading actor Bogdan Dumitrache, and supporting actor Adrian Titieni.
- EAVE 2010 project CRULIC – THE PATH TO BEYOND, directed and produced by EAVE 2010 graduate Anca Damian was awarded for original music and sound.The 6th Gopo Gala was organised by the Romanian Film Promotion with the support of Babel Communications and the National Centre for Cinema.
- STOPPED ON TRACK by Andreas Dresen: producer: EAVE group leader Peter Rommel won the prize for best film as well as prizes for best director, best actor and best supporting actor at the German Film Awards.
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- 18 MEALS, produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda Del Nido won the Prix à la Residence at Annecy.
- STILL LIFE by Sebastian Meise, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann and EAVE 1994 graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Erich Lackner won four awards at the Diagonale in Vienna: best Austrian feature, best camera, best costumes and best script.- MICHAEL by Markus Schleinzer, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Michael Kitzberger was awarded for best production design, best actor, best editing, and also best camera.
- THE SEEN AND UNSEEN by Kamila Andini, producer: Ties That Bind 2012 participant Gita Fara was awarded the Wouter Barendrecht Award of the Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum.
- CONGO: AN IRISH AFFAIR by Irina Maldea and EAVE 2009 graduate Brendan Culleton of Akajava Films won the Michael Dwyer Award for 2011 by Access Cinema. The film recounts the experiences of Irish Army peacekeepers in the Congo in 1961. It has been a big hit with audiences around the country, screening in over 30 theatres, with the help of an Irish Film Board distribution grant.
- SILENT RIVER by Anca Miruna L?z?rescu, producer: EAVE TIES THAT BIND 2011 graduate David Lindner won the Prix du Jury at the Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétouan
- THE HOUSE by Zuzana Liova, producer: EAVE 2012 participant Michal Kollar was awarded Slovakia's Best Film. Kollar is a producer with two production companies, Fog'n'Desire (Prague) and Sokol Kollar (Bratislava) which coproduced THE HOUSE.
Page published 27 April 2012. Updated 30 April 2012.
