Every year, the EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film. When the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for: the audience. This year’s vote has started – vote now and win the chance to join winners and nominees for the awards ceremony in Berlin!&...
After ten days of tweaking the concepts and budgets of their dream projects the participants of the first School of Film Agents (SOFA) presented their work results to industry figures and the audience in Poland's largest Art-house-Cinema Nowe Horyzonty on August 29, 2013. The new workshop initiative for committed film agents from Middle and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Germany found its ceremonial ending. Experts and participant...
The SHORT MATTERS! programme screens the short films nominated in 2012 at a series of festivals around the world. In July this includes the following screenings:
4 – 13 July 2013
Jerusalem Film Festival (Israel)
www.jff.org.il
6 - 14 July 2013
Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival (Portugal)
www.curtas.pt
10 & 11 July 2013
Academia de Cine, Madrid
www.academiadecine.com
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Another two editions of the EFA initiative A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY are coming up: this informal weekend encounter brings together a group of young film professionals with a few EFA Members for film screenings, discussions and an exchange of ideas and experiences.
In co-operation with the European Film Festival Palić and Art & Popcorn Motion Picture Company, and supported by the Medienboard Berlin - Brandenburg and the Serbian Ministry of Culture, one edition will bring young fi...
For the 9th time already, and on the occasion of the 48th Karlovy Vary IFF, the annual FAN of Europe meeting brought together the film academies network for an exchnage of ideas and experiences concerning membership, awarding procedures, organisation of an awards ceremony and other projects.
Attending were (1rst row, from left to right) Judith Colell - Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematograficas, Madrid * Marion Döring - European Film Academy * Isona Passola - Acad&e...
EFA Master Class with Andreas Hykade and friends Ari Folman (Israel), Phil Mulloy (UK), David OReilly (Ireland) and Izabela Plucinska (Poland)
The Runt - Andreas Hykade
WHEN: 9 – 15 September 2013
WHERE: Institute of Animation, Visual Effects, and Digital Postproduction, Ludwigsburg/Germany
MEET
- Andreas Hykade / Germany (THE RUNT, LOVE & THEFT), tutor
- ...
OOH, AAH, CANTONA!
Continuing our series introducing the members of the Board of the European Film Academy, Scottish producer Rebecca O’Brien remembers the beginnings and some of the highlights of her career in film and talks about the “cultural exception”…
What made you want to work in film and how did you start?
As a child I just loved going to the movies – especially musicals - and when I was a teenager in London I particularly e...
The European Film Academy's Master Class this year will focus on animation. Held by Andreas Hykade (www.hykade.de) the EFA Master Class 2013 ANIMATION TODAY is dedicated to modern animation. During one week (9 - 15 September), participants will form a team and create an animation film from the original idea to the completed film. Participants can come from any field, be it independent animation, games or commercial animation. They can work in various techniques, be it 2 D, 3 D, puppets or ...
May 2013: Young Audience Award 2013
A REAL CELEBRATION WITH LOTS OF HAPPY KIDS
Children Juries in Nine European Cities Elect Dutch Film by Vincent Bal
In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Copenhagen (Denmark), Erfurt (Germany), Izola (Slovenia), London (UK), Riga (Latvia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta) and Wroclaw (Poland) have elected THE ZIGZAG KID by Vincent Bal (the Netherlands) as the winne...
Riga joins as Ninth City in Young Audience Vote
The Latvian capital Riga has just joined the European Film Academy’s YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD as the ninth participating city in this year’s second edition of the initiative for young film-lovers. This Sunday is Young Audience Film Day: On 5 May the three nominated films will simultaneously be screened to a young audience in nine different cities across Europe.
The nominated films THE SUICIDE SHOP by Patrice Leconte (France/Belgium...
Presented in co-operation with the European Film Academy and Berlinale Shorts, the Berlinale Talent Campus panel THE SHORT FILM GALAXY featured festival representatives from Clermont-Ferrand, Sarajevo, Tampere and Vila do Conde.
All of them are partners in the EFA short film initiative (each festival announces a short film nomination for the European Film Awards) and the programmers shared some insider knowledge about festival submission and selection of short films, and brought along one...
Children Juries in Eight European Cities will Elect Winner of EFA Young Audience Award
The European Film Academy proudly announces and congratulates the three nominees for the EFA Young Audience Award 2013:
THE SUICIDE SHOP by Patrice Leconte (France, Belgium & Canada)
UPSIDEdown by Bernd Sahling (Germany)
THE ZIGZAG KID by Vincent Bal (the Netherlan...
Latvian National Opera ccopyright TripAdvisor
The Latvian National Opera House is home to both the Latvian National Opera and the Latvian National Ballet. In the course of a season that runs from September to June the LNO puts up more than 200 performances, staging on average six new opera and ballet productions every season. Today, the LNO is a repertoire theatre.
While paying tribute to the traditional values of the Classical and Romantic operas and ballets that are the cornerst...
Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014, will be the host of the 27th European Film Awards next year.
Taking place in Berlin, seat of the European Film Academy (EFA), every second year, in the other years the ceremony travels. EFA Director Marion Döring says, “as a truly European event, this is the only awards ceremony that travels and it is always great to bring the awards elsewhere. We’re looking forward to the Latvian taste the awards weekend will doubtlessly acquire!...
The new EFA Members
actors: Colin Firth UK ★ Herbert Knaup GERMANY ★ Sven Nordin NORWAY ★ Åsmund Andreas Swensen Høeg NORWAY ★ actresses: Anita Caprioli ITALY ★Audrey Fleurot FRANCE ★ Caterina Murino ITALY ★ Anjorka Strechel GERMANY ★ cinematographers: Oscar Durán Barcena SPAIN ★ Stéphane Fontaine FRANCE ★ Gherardo Gossi ITALY ★ Darius Khondji FRANCE ★ composers: K. S. Eidnes Andersen DENMARK ★ Stefan Will GERMANY ★ costume des...
A FOCUS ON NETWORKING
EFA Director Marion Döring talks about upcoming projects
Looking back at the 25th European Film Awards – do you see these as the end of an era?
To me, anniversaries never feel like the end of something. On the contrary, and especially in the case of EFA, they always mark the beginning of something. That is probably because of the fact that Europe and our film culture and industry are constantly changing - whether this has to do with politics...
The European Film Academy Young Audience Award, first introduced in 2012 on occasion of the 25th European Film Awards, will be presented this year in the framework of a Young Audience Film Day on Sunday, 5 May.
The three nominated films will be screened to young audiences which will then elect the winner. Among this year’s participating cities will be Amsterdam/The Netherlands, Belgrade/Serbia, Erfurt/Germany, London/UK, Norrköping/Sweden, Sofia/Bulgaria, Turin/Italy, and Wroclaw/P...
The 25th European Film Awards Ceremony
THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Marion Döring, Peter Busuttil
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
THE 25th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Wim Wenders
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Anke Engelke, host
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD 2012 -
Prix EURIMAGES:
Helena Danielsson, Sweden
picture: EFA / Rene Rossigna...
The 25th European Film Awards Ceremony
THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Marion Döring, Peter Busuttil
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
THE 25th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Wim Wenders
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Anke Engelke, host
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD 2012 -
Prix EURIMAGES:
Helena Danielsson, Sweden
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
EUROPEAN ...
Beat Wismer (Generaldirektor der Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast), Bernd Desinger (Direktor Filmmuseum Düsseldorf), Hans-Georg Lohe (Kulturdezernent Stadt Düsseldorf), Donata und Wim Wenders, Petra Müller(Geschäftsführerin der Film- und Medienstiftung NRW), Marc Jan Eumann (Medienstaatssekretär des Landes NRW).
People around the globe have seen the films of Wim Wenders, many have been affected by them, and some of these f...
On the occasion of its meeting held in Valletta/Malta following the 25th European Film Awards the board of the European Film Academy issued the following declaration:
The European Film Academy is very much concerned about public film funding in Europe! Europe’s national supporting schemes are threatened by the new so-called Cinema Communication issued by the EU. Member states with important film funds like Germany and France have expressed deep concerns about the new rule. The board of t...
The 25th edition silver jubilee of the Awards was rated by most of the participants and attendees as one of the best ever. Difficult to top , mentionned a few observers.
That leaves the team at EFA productions with a difficult task for th enext edition in berlin 2013.
Anke delivered a wonderful, witty, daring performance....
The more than 2,700 members of the European Film Academy - filmmakers from across Europe - have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented:
EUROPEAN FILM 2012:
AMOUR
France / Germany / Austria, 127 min
written & directed by Michael Haneke
produced by Margaret Menegoz, Stefan ...
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2012
THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS - LIVE!
There will be a live stream of the awards ceremony on www.europeanfilmawards.eu
Follow real-time postings of the winners facebook and twitter
Watch the European Film Awards on TV!
The 25th European Film Awards are broadcast across Europe and beyond. These are the times / dates:
TERRITORY
BROADCASTER
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Malta is proud to present host the European Film Academy Awards at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, on 1st December 2012 with many of the stars, directors and producers as well as an illustrious international audience are already booked at The Phoenicia Hotel for the event. This annual awards ceremony recognises achievements in European cinema in 17 categories,...
