Nominations and Awards December 2012
Various awards for EAVE graduates
Nominations
- RUST & BONE by Jacques Audiard, line producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet is nominated for the Goldan Globes 2013 in the categories Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress in a Motion Picture
http://www.goldenglobes.org/2012/12/nominations-2013/
32 Film projects have been selected for the CineMart 2013, including eight projects by EAVE graduates:
- AFERIM! by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
- DEAD AND BEAUTIFUL by David Verbeek, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit
- EVERYTHING WE ALWAYS HAD WAS NOW by Martijn Maria Smits, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper
- FUTURE HISTORIES by Fiona Tan, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Floor Onrust
- LATE TO DIE YOUNG by Dominga Sotomayor (Chile), producer: PUENTES 2011 participant Benjamin Domenech
- LOW TIDE by Daniel Mann, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Jennifer Sabbah
- THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
- THEY HAVE ESCAPED by Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy
- ODAYAKA by Nobuteru Uchida, producers: EAVE Ties that Bind 2010 participant Kiki Sugino and EAVE Ties that Bind 2009 participant Kousuke Ono is selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Göteborg International Film Festival in January 2013.
- Unifrance and Paris-based cinema portal have unveiled the third edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, their online film festival devoted to a selection of recently released French features and shorts. Among them: LA PIROGUE by Moussa Touré, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Caroline Daube. The expanded festival – featuring ten features and shorts at its core – will run from January 17 to February 17.
Selected for the Sundance Film Festival are:
- CIRCLES by Srdan Golubovic, co-producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar
- THE CURSE by Fyzal Boulifa, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Gavin Humphries
- HOUSTON by by Bastian Günther, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Martin Heisler
- LE SENS DE L'ORIENTATION, the short film by Fabien Gorgeart, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate and EAVE Puentes Head of Studies Jean des Forêts has been selected in competition in Clermont-Ferrand. Fabien Gorgeart's latest short film UN CHIEN DE MA CHIENNE will also be presented in Clermont-Ferrand in La Collection Canal+ special screening.
- Interchange 2010 graduate and EAVE 2013 participant Talal Al-Muhanna (Linked Productions/Kuwait) co-nominated as producer for the $100,000 IWC Schaffhausen Script Award at Dubai International Film Festival for the Iraqi fiction feature NOTHING DOING IN BAGHDAD by co-writers Maysoon Pachachi & Irada Al Jabbouri.
www.oxymoronfilms.com, www.talmuhanna.com
Awards
- Andrea Riseborough won the prize for best actress at the British Independent Film Awards for her role in SHADOW DANCER by James Marsh, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney.
- OH BOY by Jan Ole Gerster, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh was awarded the Red Herring for the bravest film as well as the audience award at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn. The NETPAC Award went to WADJDA by Haifaa Al Mansour, co-producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Verona Meier.
- SHELL by Scott Graham, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate David Smith, co-produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Helge Albers was awarded Best Film at the Torino Film Festival.
Two of four Production Awards at this year’s TorinoFilmLab Meeting went to EAVE graduates:
- EAVE 2012 project STAGE FRIGHT by Yorgos Zois, producer: EAVE 2012 participant Maria Dandraki
- PUENTES 2011 project REY by Niles Atallah, producer: PUENTES 2011 participant Lucie Kalmar
- Jörg Hauschild wins the Filmforum and BILD-KUNST editing award for feature films with STOPPED ON TRACK by Andreas Dresen, producer: EAVE group leader Peter Rommel.
- THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE DYING by Kristin Marcon, service producers: EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause, EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet, EAVE 2006 graduate Anne Beresford, EAVE 2006 graduate Franco Boca Gelsi won the awards for Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Score at the New Zealand Film Awards.
- SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN OR BATMAN, produced and directed by EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu was awarded best European Short Film at the European Film Awards.
www.europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/efanight/winners
- DEATH OF A SHADOW by Tom Van Avermaet, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Ellen De Waele was awarded at the last LA Shortsfest. The award makes it one of 11 shorts pre-selected for the Oscars, as just announced by the Academy. The film also won in Valladolid, what catapulted it into the competition at the next European Film Award
- I’M NOT DEAD, ONLY ASLEEP by Juan Sebastian Lopez Maas, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin received a Special Mention by the Jury of the DokumentArt festival in Germany and Poland.
- LA SIRGA by Andrés Vega, producer: PUENTES-AUSTRALAB 2012 graduate Diana Bustamante won the FIPRESCI Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
- SYNGUE SABOR – THE PATIENT STONE by Atiq Rahimi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Verona Meier was given the FIPRESCI Award at the Gijón International Film Festival
- Feature Documentary FIDAI by Damien Ounouri, co-producer: EAVE PCP 2008 graduate Talal Al-Muhanna was awarded Best Documentary Film at the Algiers Film Festival. It also was awarded Best Film at the Latin Arab Film Festival in Buenos Aires and received a Special Mention at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival.
- THE CURSE by Fyzal Boulifa, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Gavin Humphries has won this year: the Illy Best Short Film Prize in Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, Best Short Film in the UK's Fujifilm Shorts Competition and the Golden Starfish for Best Short Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
This year’s European Co-production Award – Prix EURIMAGES goes to EAVE 2002 graduate and Swedish National coordinator Helena Danielsson. After a fifteen-year-long career in the Scandinavian and European film industry, Helena Danielsson established Hepp Film in 2003. The company’s core activity is to develop and realise feature films, TV-dramas and documentaries in international co-productions with award-winning European talent. Helena Danielson is an outstanding and dedicated producer, among her many films are A RATIONAL SOLUTION which ran in competition at the Venice Critics’ Week 2009, the feature documentary SMILING IN A WARZONE which was nominated for an international Emmy award in 2007, and Venice 2010 Critics’ Week winner BEYOND by Pernilla August. Helena Danielsson joined the company Tre Vänner Produktion AB and continues to work with Hepp Film. The EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD – Prix EURIMAGES will be presented during the European Film Awards Ceremony in Malta on December 1.
Page published 14 December 2012.
