European Film Academy

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Curtas Vila do Conde - International Short Film Festival congratulate the

Vila do Conde Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010

TALLERES CLANDESTINOS
by Catalina Molina
Austria/Argentina 2010, 40 min., fiction

A job as a seamstress tempts Juana, a young Bolivian woman, to neighbouring Argentina. Her husband and child remain behind in their homeland. It doesn’t take long for the illusion of financial gain to burst – Juana is being exploited and must produce textiles for a luxury brand. Her employer’s demands become ever more absurd, working conditions become unbearable. When her son becomes ill, Juana starts making plans to return, but as far as her employer is concerned, leaving is not an option.

The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2010. It was selected by the festival’s jury for the national and international competition which was made up of Portuguese director/ photographer Daniel Blaufuks, Laurent Guerrier, festival programmer from Clermont-Ferrand, and directors Balint Kenyeres (Hungary), Manuel Monzos (Portugal), and Katell Quillévéré (France).

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 the Sarajevo Film Festival in the end of July.