Five Debut Films nominated for European Film Awards
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2011 - Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of observer Yves Marmion (EFA Chairman, France), Board Members Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands) and Cedomir Kolar (France), EFA Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well as Alin Tasciyan (Turkey), Paulo Portugal (Portugal), and László Kriston (Hungary), all of them members of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.
NOMINATED ARE:
ADEM (Oxygen), Belgium/the Netherlands
DIRECTED BY: Hans Van Nuffel
WRITTEN BY: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem & Hans Van Nuffel
PRODUCED BY: Dries Phlypo, Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Joost De Vries,
Leontine Petit & Marleen Slot
ATMEN (Breathing), Austria
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Karl Markovics
PRODUCED BY: Dieter Pochlatko & Nikolaus Wisiak
MICHAEL, Austria
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Markus Schleinzer
PRODUCED BY: Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter
& Markus Glaser
SMUKKE MENNESKER (Nothing’s All Bad), Denmark
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Mikkel Munch-Fals
PRODUCED BY: Stine Meldgaard & Meta Louise Foldager
TILVA ROŠ, Serbia
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Nikola Ležaić
PRODUCED BY: Uroš Tomić, Mina Đukić & Nikola Ležaić
The nominated films will now be made available to all 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. They will vote for the winner who will be announced at the 24th European Film Awards on 3 December in Berlin.
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The European Film Awards 2011 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and EFA Productions gGmbH with the support of the Capital Cultural Fund, FFA German Federal Film Board, the German State Lottery Berlin, the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, the MEDIA Programme of the EU, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Hôtel Concorde Berlin, PanAm Lounge, ŠKODA and TNT Express.
Berlin, 11 October 2011