Finnish Documentary Short Nominated
Press release # 4/2010
FINNISH DOCUMENTARY SHORT NOMINATED
The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Tampere Film Festival congratulate the
Tampere Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
LUMIKKO (The Little Snow Animal)
by Miia Tervo
Finland 2009, 19 min., documentary
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2010. It was selected by the festival’s international jury which was made up of film critic and editor Philip Cheah (Singapore), writer/director Pablo Lamar (Paraguay), festival director Karen Rais-Nordentoft (Denmark), director/scriptwriter Selma Vilhunen (Finland), and documentary filmmaker Wu Wenguang (China).
Their decision was explained as follows:
The jury gives the EFA Tampere Nomination to a film which surpasses narrow genre definitions. The filmmaker takes it upon her to unfold human existential issues in a complex multi-layered way, and the outcome seems both very particular and universal, but most of all strikingly authentic. This hybrid of imagery, voices and music is brilliantly brought together to form a visionary depiction of a human mind and soul. For its skilful and delicate balancing of devices and styles and for the complex yet precise handling of evocative subject matter the jury awards the EFA Tampere Nomination to THE LITTLE SNOW ANIMAL by Miia Tervo.
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 the beginning of June in co-operation with the Krakow Film Festival (Poland).
Berlin, 16 March 2010