Members of the European Film Academy can this year vote for the chair person and the two deputy chair persons, as well as for the candidates from the following countries and regions:
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The vote closes on Thursday, 19 November 2015, at 23:59 CET.
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Information for EFA Members
Please remember that the vote for the EFA Nominations will end tomorrow! Only votes received by 23h59 CET on Wednesday, 21 October 2015 can be included in the overall count! thanks a lot for your participation!
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The European Film Academy proudly announces the three nominations in the category EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2015. Based on a list of films provided by CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, as well as on individual film submissions, a committee decided on these nominations. The committee consisted of EFA Board Member Antonio Saura, producer (Spain), animation experts Marcel Jean (Annecy FF, Canada) ...
picture: Siebbi picture: Zadi Diaz
The European Film Academy takes great pleasure in presenting Charlotte Rampling with the honorary LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for her outstanding body of work. Born in...
The European Film Academy and EFA Productions are proud to present this year's short film nominations. At each of the 15 participating film festivals, an independent jury presented one European short film in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards.
Nominated are:
Berlin Short Film Nominee
DISSONANCE
by Till Nowak
Germany 2015, animation, 17&#...
At the Oldenburg International Film Festival in Germany, the European Film Academy has announced this year's nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. This year's nominations were determined by a committee comprised of EFA Board Member Dagmar Jacobsen (Germany), experts Mihai Chirilov (Cluj FF, Romania), Lynda Myles (Pandora Production...
European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the first ever EFA Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year's European Film Awards.
The change follows a decision by the EFA Board to “acknowledge the growing importance of European documentary cinema,” says Israeli producer Marek Rozenbaum, EFA Board Member on the documentary committe...
Early in June, the Croatian island of Ugljan in the Zadar archipelago became the place to take in a group of filmmakers escaping everyday life, curiously waiting to meet with their new (film) family members. Under the first beams of a hot summer sun, surrounded by the Adriatic Sea, it was easy to leave everything behind on the mainland and get new inspiration from each other’s company.
Housed in Stocco Castle with meals served outside und...
Among the changes for this year's 28th European Film Awards is the introduction of an EFA Documentary Selection, a list of films recommended to the EFA Members for a nomination (in the past, the nominations were decided by a committee).
The change follows a decision by the EFA Board to “acknowledge the growing importance of European documentary cinema,” says Israeli producer Marek Rozenbaum, EFA Board Member on the documentary committee, “there is a g...
On the occasion of the Odessa International Film Festival, taking place from 10 – 18 July, the European Film Academy awarded the Potemkin Stairs in Odessa the title “Treasure of European Film Culture”. Sergei Eisenstein shot his master piece “Battleship Potemkin” 90 years ago at the Black Sea port. The Potemkin Stairs are undoubtedly one of the world’s most famous historical film locations. During a ceremony a special “Treasure of European Fil...
Screenwriter Stefano Sardo with the EFA Young Audience Award 2015 for THE INVISIBLE BOY (picture: Carlo Bansini)
Having watched the three nominated films on today’s Young Audience Film Day, the young cinema-lovers across Europe had the opportunity to discuss the films before electing their favourite. The results were then reported live via video conference to Erfurt (Germany) where German TV host, author and director Thomas Hermanns moderated the awards ceremony transmitted online as a ...
Nominated Are MY SKINNY SISTER, THE INVISIBLE BOY and YOU’RE UGLY TOO
The European Film Academy proudly announces and congratulates the three nominees for the EFA Young Audience Award 2015:
MY SKINNY SISTER
MIN LILLA SYSTER
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Sanna Lenken
PRODUCED BY: Annika Rogell
Sweden/Germany
THE INVISIBLE BOY
IL RAGAZZO INVISIBILE
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SHORT CUTS
in co-operation with Berlinale Talents and Berlinale Shorts
Producer Sabine Brantus (ARTE), festival programmers Laurent Crouzeix (Clermond-Ferrand International Short Film Festival) and Jukka-Pekka Laakso (Tampere Film Festival), and distributor Jan Naszewski (New Europe Film Sales), all passionately dedicated to the short form, talk about the different ways to present your short film. This panel will consider the reasons for and...
First places listed are in memory of Bergman, Eisenstein, Guerra and the Lumière brothers
We proudly present a new initiative: TREASURES OF EUROPEAN FILM CULTURE, a list of places of a symbolic nature for European cinema, places of historical value that need to be maintained and protected not just now but also for generations to come. The initiative was inspired by an idea of EFA Members Naum Kleiman and Ulrich & Erika Gregor. Film historian and former director of t...
First places listed are in memory of Bergman, Eisenstein, Guerra and the Lumière brothers
The European Film Academy proudly presents a new initiative: TREASURES OF EUROPEAN FILM CULTURE, a list of places of a symbolic nature for European cinema, places of historical value that need to be maintained and protected not just now but also for generations to come. The initiative was inspired by an idea of EFA Members Naum Kleiman and Ulrich & Erika Gregor. Film hist...
The German director Wim Wenders has been nominated for an Oscar® in the category of Best Documentary Feature. Other nominations went to the German co-productions CITIZENFOUR by Laura Poitras (DE/US, Praxis Films) and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL by Wes Anderson (GB/DE, Neunzehnte Babelsberg Film). The composer Hans Zimmer has been nominated in the category of Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) for INTERSTELLAR. This was announced by the Academy of Motion Pictu...
On Saturday morning, the EFA General Assembly included the announcement of the new EFA Board. The EFA Members have selected the new Board Members Tilde Corsi (Italy), Ira von Gienanth (Germany), Angeles Gonzáles-Sinde (Spain), Vanessa Henneman (Netherlands), Agnès Jaoui (France) and Ewa Puszczynska (Poland). They replace Adriana Chiesa di Palma (Italy), Stephan Hutter (Germany), Cedom...
In the middle of December more than 1,000 European filmmakers, EFA Members, guests, nominees and winners came from all directions to Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014, to celebrate the 27th European Film Awards.
The EFA Welcome Desk / The arrival of the statuettes
The weekend started with a press conference at the opera, interviews at the Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija and the Radisson Blu Hotel Elizabete and a Film Gala at the Cinema Splendid Palace in honour of Agn...
The red carpet / Steve McQueen and his partner, Bianca Stigter, arrive at the Latvian National Opera
While European media representatives from 30 countries installed themselves in the press centre, film fans waited outside the impressive red carpet tent in front of the Latvian National Opera for the arrival of the stars.
Thomas Hermanns welcomes the audience
On a stage with a gigantic projection flower installation bathed in spheric lights, host Thomas Hermanns welcomed t...
The more than 3,000 members of the European Film Academy – filmmakers from across Europe – have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Riga the following awards were presented:
EUROPEAN FILM 2014
IDA
DIRECTED BY: Paweł Pawlikowski
WRITTEN BY: Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz
PRODUCED BY: Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł & Ewa Puszczyńska
EUROPEAN COMEDY 2014
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Information for EFA Members
The self-nomination procedure being concluded, it is our pleasure to present to you the candidates for the EFA Board elections 2014. We wish to thank all candidates for their commitment!
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This year’s EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD – Prix EURIMAGES, an award acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry, goes to Irish producer Ed Guiney.
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 Element pr...
At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFA Productions proudly announced the nominations for the 27th European Film Awards. The more than 3,000 EFA Members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on 13 December in Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014.
EUROPEAN FILM 2014
FORCE MAJEURE
TURIST
Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY...
The European Film Academy proudly announces the six nominations in the category EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2014.
A committee consisting of EFA Board Members Antonio Saura (producer, Spain) and Ada Solomon (producer, Romania), EFA Member Signe Byrge Sørensen (producer, Denmark), as well as documentary experts Claas Danielsen (Germany), Ally Derks (Netherlands) and Jacques Laurent (Belgium) decided on the following nominations:
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European Film Academy and French Directors’ Guild support Ukrainian Filmmaker
The filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was involved in supporting the Euro Maidan protests in Kiev and who has opposed the annexation of Crimea by Russia, was arrested by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) in his house in Simferopol on 10 May and brought to Moscow where he is still detained and awaiting trial. His trial was supposed to be on 11 October and has just b...
