Short Film Nominees Announced in Grimstad and Edinburgh
Press release # 06/2010
SHORT FILM NOMINEES FOR EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
ANNOUNCED IN GRIMSTAD AND EDINBURGH
The European Film Academy (EFA) takes pleasure in announcing the following two new entries in the nomination procedure for the short film category of the European Film Awards 2010:
Grimstad Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
HANOI - WARSZAWA by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Poland 2009, 30 min., fiction
and
Edinburgh Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
MARÍA’S WAY by Anne Milne
UK/Spain 2009, 16 min., documentary
HANOI - WARSZAWA is a film dealing with the fate of illegal immigrants from Vietnam who try to settle in Poland. The film was selected by the International Jury at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad which was composed of Knut Åsdam (Norway), Mårten Nilsson (Sweden), Suvi West (Finland), Roland Nguyen (France) and Kari Moen Kristiansen (Norway).
Contact: Krakow Film Foundation, Katarzyna Wilk, katarzyna@kff.com.pl
The documentary MARÍA’S WAY, a portrait of Maria who is positioned on a famed pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, received its nomination at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The film is a British-Spanish co-production.
Contact: Anne Milne, anne@annemilne.com
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 co-operation with Curtas Vila do Conde - International Short Film Festival on 11 July 2010.
Berlin, 23 June 2010