Six awards for EAVE graduates in Berlin
Awards February 2014
Berlinale Awards
Generation
- The Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for Best Film: VIOLET by Bas Devoc, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyer
Co-production Market
- SOUVENIR by Bavo Defurne, producer EAVE 2004 graduate Yves Verbraeken won the Berlinale Highlight Pitch Award
Prizes of the Independent Juries
Label Europa Cinemas
- BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen
Peace Film Prize
- WE COME AS FRIENDS by Hubert Sauper, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Cinema Fairbindet Award
- CONCERNING VIOLENCE by Göran Olsson, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Annika Rogell, co-producer EAVE 2010 graduate Monica Hellstrom Weston
Der Tagesspiegel Reader’s Jury
- VELVET TERRORISTS by Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarcík, Peter Kerekes, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate SiniĊĦa Juricic
www.berlinale.de
Four awards for EAVE producers at the Magritte du Cinema 2014:
- KINSHASA KIDS by Marc-Henri Wajnberg, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez was awarded for Best Editing
- TANGO LIBRE by Frédéric Fonteyne, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers received two prizes for Best Script and for Best Set Design
- THE NUN (LA REGLIGIEUSE) by Guillaume Nicloux, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart was awarded for Best Actress
- TO KILL A MAN by Alejandro Fernández Almendras, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille won the Dutch film critic’s award KNF at the Rotterdam Film Festival. The film has already won the main award at Sundance.
- The Jussi Award, the Finnish national film prize, for the best Finnish film of last year went to CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff, EAVE 2009 graduate Misha Jaari, co-produced by EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller and EAVE 2009 graduate Cecilia Valsted! The film also won Best Set Design, Best Editing, Best Sound Design, Best Cinematography and Best Direction.
- HEART OF A LION by Dome Karukoski, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy won the award for Best actor in a supporting role!
- EAVE 2008 project LOVE ETERNAL, written and directed by Brendan Muldowney, producers EAVE 2010 graduate Conor Barry, EAVE 2004 graduate Morgan Bushe and EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher won the Best Irish Feature Award at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
- THE QUIET ROAR by Henrik Hellström, producer EAVE 2009 graduate Erika Wasserman won the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award for best cinematography at the Dragon Award Competition at Gothenburg Film Festival.
- A STREET IN PALERMO by Emma Dante, producers: Interchange 2010 graduate Marta Donzelli, EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli received the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at the festival.
www.giff.se
- ARE YOU LISTENING! by Kamar Ahmad Simon, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Sara Afreen won the Golden Conch for Best Feature Documentary, and the Best Cinematography Award at the 13th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF).
http://miff.in/miff2014-award-winning-films/
Page published 27 February 2014.
