Prix EURIMAGES goes to EAVE graduate Ed Guiney

Awards November 2014

This year’s European Co-production Award – Prix EURIMAGES goes to EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney, to be given at the upcoming European Film Awards Ceremony in Riga. The prize acknowledges every year the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry.Ed Guiney co-founded Element Pictures with Andrew Lowe in 2001. Today, Element has offices in Dublin and London, working across production, distribution, and exhibition.Element has been involved in the production and distribution of over 30 feature films. Current and upcoming productions include ROOM, an adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s award-winning best-selling novel, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, Yorgos Lanthimos’ first English language film, THE LOBSTER, Gerard Barrett’s GLASSLAND and Jerzy Skolimowski’s 11 MINUTES. Recently completed Element productions include Abrahamson’s latest film FRANK and Ken Loach’s JIMMY’S HALL which screened in competition at Cannes in 2014. Also well known are Guiney’s productions ESSENTIAL KILLING by Jerzy Skolimowski and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Paolo Sorrentino.
So far, 5 out of the 9 winners of the European Film Award for Best European Co-Producer - Prix EURIMAGES 2007-2014 are EAVE graduates: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum; EAVE 1992 graduate and Head of Studies Jani Thiltges; EAVE 2002 graduate and Swedish National Coordinator Helena Danielsson; EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon; EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney.

THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen won the top prize at the CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival the “companion piece” to his Oscar-nominated EAVE 2010 project THE ACT OF KILLING, about the 1965-1966 Indonesian Genocide.

THESE ARE THE RULES by Ognjen Svilicic, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Janja Kralj won three awards at the Stockholm Film Festival. Jasna Zalica was awarded Best Actress, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic received the prize for Best Actor, Crystel Fournier was awarded Best Cinematography.
Emir Hadzihafizbegovic was also awarded Best Actor at the Film Festival Cottbus and the Minsk IFF.

THE CHICKEN by Uma Gunjak, co-producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic and B’EST 2013 graduate Jelena Goldbach won Best Short Film at the Stockholm Film Festival.

THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING by Isa Qosja, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Shkumbin Istrefi, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards received a special mention at the FilmFestival Cottbus as well as the award of the jury of the Dialogue Prize for Intercultural Communication. The film also won the Audience Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson won the Golden Giraldillo for Best Film at the Seville International Film Festival.
THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, EAVE+ graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina received the Special Jury Award and the prize for Best Acress for Maria Alexandra Lungu.
LOS HONGOS, by Oscar Ruiz Navia, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Titus Kreyenberg was given a Special Mention.
The Eurimages Award for the Best European Co-production went to WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi and EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyarfas, script consultant: Martin Daniel.

EAVE Ties That Bind 2011 project FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by Diep Nguyen Hoang, producer: TIES THAT BIND 2011 graduate David Lindner wins Best Director at the Bratislava International Film Festival.

PATRICK’S DAY by Terry McMahon, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Rachel Lysaght won the Audience Award at the Cork Film Festival and a Special Mention at the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg.

I AM THE PEOPLE by TIES THAT BIND 2014 graduate Karim Aituna was awarded Best Documentary and Best Debut and received a special mention at Medimed Mediteraneen documentary Market at the Jihlava Documentary Film Festival.

BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen won the Grand Prix from the Cinessonne Festival of European Cinema, which took place in the Paris region from 11-23 November.
CORN ISLAND by George Ovashvili, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille won the Audience Award.
THE CHICKEN by Uma Gunjak, co-producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic and B’EST 2013 graduate Jelena Goldbach managed to pull off a double win, swiping both the Grand Prix and the Audience Award.

AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate André Fetzer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu won the Award for Best Film at the Lisbon and Estoril MEO Film Festival.

PUENTES 2011 project FERIADO by Diego Araujo, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Hanne-Lovise Skartveit was awarded the Premio Especial del Jurado at the 1st Cine de las Tres Fronteras in Puerto Iguazú, Argentina.

MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann and- WE COME AS FRIENDS by Hubert Sauper, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder won the main prizes at the Viennale.

LA RÈGLE DU JEU by Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman won the Golden Dove at the Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.

UNDERDOG by Ronnie Sandahl, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Hellström won the Baltic Film Prize for best Nordic feature film at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck.-
THEY HAVE ESCAPED by JP Valkeapää, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Aleksi Bardy, EAVE 2009 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij, EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Sucksdorff received a Special Mention.

PUENTES 2013 project AUGUST by Armando Capó, producer: Puentes 2013 graduate Marcela Esquivel Jiménez was awarded the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival Amiens.

HOME by Fien Troch, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Antonio Lombardo, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart won the ARTE International Prize
EAVE 2013 project PIGS ON THE WIND by Stergios Paschos, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Phaedra Vokali, co-producer EAVE 2013 graduate Zdenka Gold won the Post-Production Award EP2C
THE VOICE by György Pálfi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai won the Les Arcs Coproduction Village Prize
THE WOUND by John Trengove, producer: EAVE 2014 graduate Elias Ribeiro, co-producers: EAVE 2013 graduate Marie Dubas and Interchange 2013 graduate Trent won a production award
HUNTING SEASON by Natalia Garagiola, co-producers: PUENTES 2011 graduate Benjamin Domenech and PUENTES 2014 participant Santiago Gallelli won a production award
Ties That Bind 2014 project KODUKUSHI by Janus Victoria, co-producer Ties That Bind 2014 graduate Masumi Soga won the Audience Award

EAVE Ties That Bind 2011 project FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by Diep Nguyen Hoang, producer: TIES THAT BIND 2011 graduate David Lindner wins the Special Prize of the Jury at Hanoi Intl. Film Festival!

Page published 27 November 2014. Updated 28 November 2014.

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