ROSA’S WEDDING wins at the Platino Awards
Awards October 2021
Zurich Film Festival
Three main awards for EAVE graduates at the Zurich Film Festival:
- A CHIARA by Jonas Carpignano, co-producers; EAVE graduate Katrin Pors, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin won the Golden Eye for Best Feature Film
- LIFE OF IVANNA by Renato Borrayo Serrano, producer: EAVE graduate Pertti Veijalainen was awarded the Golden Eye for Best Documentary Film
- AZOR by Andreas Fontana, producer: EAVE graduate Eugenia Mumenthaler won the Emerging Swiss Talent Award
CinÉast Luxembourg
- MURINA by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, co-producers: EAVE graduates Zdenka Gold, Miha Cernec, EAVE graduate and National Coordinator Slovenia Jozko Rutar was awarded the Grand Prix at CinÉast – Luxembourg’s Central and Eastern European Film Festival.
- NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN by Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski won the Special Jury Prize
- MIRACLE by Bogdan George Apetri, producer: EAVE graduate Oana Iancu, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Latvian National Coordinator Aija Berzina received the Critics' Prize
Filmfest Hamburg
Seven awards for EAVE graduates at the Filmfest Hamburg:
- NIEMAND IST BEI DEN KÄLBERN by Sabrina Sarabi, producer: EAVE graduate and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann won the Hamburg Producers Award for German Cinema Productions
- LINGUI by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, co-producer: EAVE graduate Melanie Andernach, EAVE graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum received the Hamburg Producers Award for International Cinema Co-Productions
- ANNETTE by Leos Carax, co-producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland won the Douglas Sirk Award
- OLGA by Elie Grappe, producer: EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt won the Sichtwechsel Film Award
- PUENTES project LA CIVIL by Teodora Ana Mihai, producer: EAVE graduate Hans Everaert, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Irina Andreea Malcea was awarded Political Film of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
- HIVE by Blerta Basholli, producer: EAVE graduate Valon Bajgora, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Britta Rindelaub received the NDR Young Talent Award
- LITTLE PALESTINE: DIARY OF A SIEGE by Abdallah Al-Kathib, producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis won the Commerzbank Audience Award
Namur Film Festival
- INTREGALDE by Radu Muntean, executive producer: EAVE graduate Oana Iancu won the Bayard spécial du Jury at the Namur International French-Language Film Festival.
- EAVE project MON LÉGIONNAIRE by Rachel Lang, producers: EAVE graduates Jeremy Forni and Benoit Roland was awarded the Bayard du Meilleur scénario and the Prix de la Critique
Icelandic Edda Awards
- THE GARDEN by Ragnar Bragason, producer: EAVE graduate Beata Rzezniczek is the big winner of the Icelandic Edda Awards. The film was awarded Best Film, Best Director, Best Script and Best Actress (Sigrun Edda Björnsdottir).
Athens International Film Festival
- NOCHE DE FUEGO by Tatiana Huezo, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis Lopez, co-producers: EAVE graduates Rachel Daisy Ellis, Dan Wechsler won the Golden Athena Award for Best Film at the Athens International Film Festival.
- GREAT FREEDOM by Sebastian Meise, producer: EAVE graduate Oliver Neumann won the Greek Film Critics Association Award
Reykjavik International Film Festival
- MOON, 66 QUESTIONS by Jacqueline Lentzou, producer: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa won the Reykjavik International Film Festival. The film won the main award, the Golden Puffin.
- PUENTES project CLARA SOLA by Nathalie Alvarez Mesén, producer: EAVE graduates Nima Yousefi, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Géraldine Sprimont won the Young People's Jury Award and received a Special Mention
Cinemed Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival
- HIVE by Blerta Basholli, producer: EAVE graduate Valon Bajgora, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Britta Rindelaub has won the Antigone d'or at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival.
- EAVE project COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON by Mounia Akl, producer: EAVE graduate Myriam Sassine won the BNP Paribas Critics’ Award
- LITTLE PALESTINE: DIARY OF A SIEGE by Abdallah Al-Kathib, producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis won the Ulysse Decipro Award
- LIBERTAD by Clara Roquet, producer: EAVE graduate and Spanish National Coordinator Maria Zamora and EAVE graduate Sergi Moreno, co-producer: EAVE graduate Katleen Goossens received a Special Mention.
Irish Film and Television Academy awards
The winners of the Irish Film and Television Academy IFTA awards of 2021 are:
- NORMAL PEOPLE by Lenny Abrahamson, executive producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won nine awards, including Best Drama, Best Actor Drama (Paul Mescal), Best Director Drama, Best Script Drama, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama, Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Drama.
- WILDFIRE by Cathy Brady, producer: EAVE graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina won Best Director Film and Best Actress Film
- HERSELF by Phyllida Lloyd, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won Best Script Film
Rome Film Fest
- MEDITERRANEO by Marcel Barrena, producers: EAVE graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis, EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas has won the Audience Award at the Rome Film Fest.
Gent Film Festival
- PUENTES project CLARA SOLA by Nathalie Alvarez Mesén, producer: EAVE graduates Nima Yousefi, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Géraldine Sprimont won the George Delerue Award for Best Score at the Film Fest Gent.
- MEMORIA by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, producer: PUENTES graduate Diana Bustamante, co-producers: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler, Myriam Sassine received a Special Mention
- PLEASURE by Ninja Thyberg, co-producer: EAVE graduate Leontine Petit was awarded by the Explore Zone Jury.
Riga International Film Festival
- RUNNER by Ansdrius Blazevicius, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute received the Riga IFF Award
- EAVE Marketing Workshop project LAMB by Valdimar Johannsson, producer: EAVE graduate Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, developed at EAVE by MW graduate Ewa Bojanowska received a Special Mention
- EAVE project SPACEBOY wins the Children’s Jury Prize.
Nederlands Film Festival
- THE JUDGEMENT by Sander Burger, producer: EAVE graduate Joram Willink scooped 4 Golden Calfs at the Nederlands Film Festival: Best Film, Best script, Best acting performance and Best supporting acting performance.
Ibero-american Platino awards
Numerous awards at the Platino awards for EAVE graduates:
- ROSA’S WEDDING by Iciar Bollain, producer: EAVE graduate, PUENTES Head of Studies and National Coordinator Latin America Fernanda del Nido won the Best Actress Award and the Best supporting actress award.
- AKELARRE by Pablo Agüero, producer: EAVE+ graduate Iker Ganuza won Best original score
- THE PRINCE, co-produced by EAVE graduate Federico Sande Novo won the Best supporting Actor award
- THE MOLE AGENT by PUENTES graduate Maite Alberdi, co-producer: MW and EAVE graduate Fleur Knopperts, EAVE+, TTB and EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin, and EAVE graduate Ingmar Trost won the Best Documentary Feature film award and the Film and values education award.
- SCHOOLGIRLS by EAVE+ graduate Valérie Delpierre won Best Latin American Fiction opera prima.
Page published 29 October 2021.
