European Film Academy

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Krakow Film Festival congratulate the

Krakow Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2011
PAPARAZZI
by Piotr Bernas
Poland, 33 min., documentary

‘Kasia Cichopek has bought a potty’ – Polish paparazzi wait for hours to take a photo illustrating this sensational news; they wait near shops, in streets or by the celebrities’ homes.

The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2011. It was selected by the festival’s international short film competition jury which was made up of directors Lech Kowalski (USA), Bartek Konopka (Poland), and Ülo Pikkov (Estonia), João Garção Borges, Chief Editor and Director of Short Film Acquisitions at RTP 2 (Portugal), and director Delphine Lyner, co-director of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland).

The jury statement reads: “The Polish film, Paparazzi, follows the work of a professional doing the dirty job of tabloid press photographer and at the same time deals with the soul of a man facing both the cruel and contemporary reality of history and the minor facts of life. After this film there is a good chance that Polanski will allow the photographer to take his picture.”

The short film initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in co-operation with a series of 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.

Paparazzi joins the following nominees: BERIK by Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark), selected at the Flanders IFF - Ghent; SMÅ BARN, STORA ORD (Little Children, Big Words) by Lisa James-Larsson (Sweden), selected at Valladolid IFF, HÄNDELSE VID BANK (Incident by a Bank) by Ruben Östlund (Sweden), selected at Corona Cork FF; JESSI by Mariejosephin Schneider (Germany), selected at Premiers Plans - Festival d’Angers, I LUPI (The Wolves) by Alberto de Michele, selected at Rotterdam IFF, ÅTERFÖDELSEN (The Unliving) by Hugo Lilja (Sweden), selected at Berlin IFF, and SILENT RIVER by by Anca Miruna Lăzărescu, selected at Tampere FF.

The next nomination will be presented in co-operation with the Norwegian Short Film Festival grimstad in June.

When the annual cycle is completed in September, the nominees will be presented to the over 2,300 members of the European Film Academy and it is they who will elect the overall winner: the European Film Academy Short Film 2011 which will be presented at the 24th European Film Awards Ceremony on 3 December in Berlin.