THE GREAT RACE for the European Film Awards
Director Kote Camacho (centre) with jury members Kasia Klimkiewicz, Anja Breien, Sari Volanen, EFA's Steffi Röders, and Lassaad Jamoussi
Grimstad Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2011
LA GRAN CARRERA (The Great Race)
by Kote Camacho
Spain 2010, 7 min, fiction,
1914. The Lasarte racetrack announces a race with a never-before-seen prize for the winning horse. Eight of the best horses and mares in the world have registered. Fans and gamblers from all continents gather to participate in the great event: the Half Million Grand Prize. THE GREAT RACE is made up of only one minute found footage.
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2011. It was selected by the festival’s international short film jury which consisted of Polish director Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, who was elected for the EFA short film nomination in Grimstad last year and was the overall winner at the European Film Awards 2010 with her short HANOI-WARSAW, Tunisian film professor and activist Lassaad Jamoussi, Norwegian editor and publicist Kjetil Lismoen, Sari Volanen from the YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, and Norwegian director Anja Breien, who was nominated for the European Film Awards herself in 2001 for TO SEE A BOAT IN SAIL.
The jury statement reads: “Intelligent, funny, slightly surreal, this film works on many levels. It’s a great metaphor of the history of the 20th century, executed with great talent and impressive skill. The Grimstad Short Film Nominee for the European Short Film Award 2011 goes to the Spanish film THE GREAT RACE by Kote Camacho.”
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.
The next nomination will be presented in co-operation with the Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival in Portugal in July.
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.
Berlin, 20 June 2011