VENUS Wins Nomination
Press release # 3/2010
BELGIAN SHORT NOMINATED FOR EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Berlin International Film Festival congratulate the
Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
VENUS VS ME
by Nathalie Teirlinck
Belgium 2009, 27 min., fiction
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2010. It was selected by the festival’s international short film jury which was made up of Zita Carvalhosa, founder and director of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Brazil), Max Dax, chief editor of German pop culture magazine Spex, and British producer Samm Haillay.
VENUS VS ME tells the story of twelve-year-old Marie who has problems putting her childhood behind her. Ever since her young mother brought home a new boyfriend, Marie’s questions have gone unanswered and communication would seem to be impossible. Marie desperately tries to win back her mother for herself, at the same time seeking comfort in the world of her memories.
The short film initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in co-operation with fifteen film festivals throughout Europe. At each of these festivals, an independent jury presents one of the European short films in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards.
When the annual cycle is completed in September, the nominees will be presented to the over 2,000 members of the European Film Academy and it is they who will elect the overall winner: the European Film Academy Short Film 2010 which will be presented at the 23rd European Film Awards Ceremony on 4 December
in Tallinn/Estonia.
The next nomination will be presented in March in co-operation with the Tampere Film Festival (Finland).
Berlin, 17 February 2009