European Film Academy
Short Film Screenings in Australia
On invitation by the Perth Writers Festival and the Goethe Institute Australia EFA Director Marion Döring visited Australia for a series of screenings and presentations. In Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, she introduced screenings of the EFA SHORT MATTERS! Programme, the short films nominated for the European Film Awards 2009, and gave [...]
European Film Academy protests against arrest of Iranian director Jafar Panahi
The Board of the European Film Academy strongly protests against the arrest of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and demands his immediate release.
Jafar Panahi is an internationally recognised artist and his work has been honoured at the festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Venice. Before his arrest, [...]
Press release # 3/2010
BELGIAN SHORT NOMINATED FOR EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Berlin International Film Festival congratulate the
Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
VENUS VS ME
by Nathalie Teirlinck
Belgium 2009, 27 min., fiction
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2010. It was selected [...]
Press release # 2/2010
Locarno joins EFA Short Film Initiative
The European Film Academy (EFA) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam congratulate the
Rotterdam Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
ØNSKEBØRN (Out Of Love)
by Birgitte Stærmose (Denmark 2009, 29 min., documentary fiction)
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2010. It [...]
EFA Master Class 2010
STEREOSCOPIC STORYTELLING
Creating stories and images for 3D Film
for European film directors, cinematographers, set designers, editors, writers and producers
with Alain Derobe
12-18 July 2010
Berlin/Germany
The production of a live-action 3D film is a highly complex process and it is essential that all crafts involved in the creation of such a film develop an understanding [...]
Press release # 1/2010
This year’s 23rd European Film Awards will see the re-launch of two award categories: EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER and EUROPEAN EDITOR.
The move has been decided by the Board of the European Film Academy during their latest meeting in Berlin and reflects the distinct wish by EFA Members to honour the outstanding contribution of [...]
EFA Master Class RUHR with Danny Boyle
by Oliver Baumgarten
The fourth day of the EFA Master Class RUHR, which was to close with a visit of all participants to the European Film Awards Ceremony, started with a three-hour energy boost. British director Danny Boyle came by for a morning workshop and with his dynamic and open [...]
EFA Master Class RUHR with Nino Kirtadzé and Peter Liechti
by Oliver Baumgarten
This year`s European Film Awards began in Unna Massimo, a former refugee settlement right in the heart of Germany’s Ruhr Metropolis - at least for the 23 young filmmakers from across Europe who accepted an invitation by the European Film Academy and [...]
Michael Haneke’s THE WHITE RIBBON wins European Film and Director, Actress goes to Kate Winslet for THE READER, Actor to Tahar Rahim in UN PROPHETE…
Press Release #28/2009
When the doors open for the 22nd European Film Awards on Saturday, 12 December, the world of European cinema will step onto the red carpet at the spectacular venue of the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum. Winners, nominees and EFA Members - altogether 1,400 guests will be welcomed by German comedy star Anke Engelke who [...]
Press Release #27/2009
The European Film Academy, EFA Productions, and the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI have announced that the
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS’ AWARD 2009 - Prix FIPRESCI
goes to
Andrzej Wajda
for TATARAK (Sweet Rush)
As FIPRESCI’s General Secretary Klaus Eder explained: “For us critics it is without doubt a big pleasure to honour Wajda, who [...]
Press Release #26/2009
The European Film Academy (EFA) is proud to have won a group of distinguished personalities from the world of European film to co-operate with for the promotion of European cinema and the European Film Awards. In close co-ordination with the European Film Academy, these renowned filmmakers will represent EFA and the European [...]
Press Release #25/2009
At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the nominations for the 22nd European Film Awards. At the same time, the new EFA-website with lots of information about the Awards went online at www.europeanfilmawards.eu
The more than 2,000 EFA Members will now vote for the winners which will [...]
Press Release #24/2009
When the 1,400 guests at the 22nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS CEREMONY take their seats at Bochum’s legendary Jahrhunderthalle (Century Hall), a former gas power station of the steel mills, they will be welcomed by German comedy star ANKE ENGELKE, the host of the evening. She is known in the international film world for [...]
Press Release #22/2009
The European Film Academy proudly announces the three nominations in the category EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2009.
The jury consisting of EFA Board Members Per Holst (producer, Denmark) and Antonio Saura (producer, Spain) as well as representatives of CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, Agnès Bizzaro (program consultant/ editor, France/Germany), Enzo [...]
Press Release #21/2009
The winners of the third edition of the Prix Eurimages, an award acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry, were announced on Saturday at a lunch held in the framework of the “New Cinema Network” in Rome attended by a large number of professionals from the cinema industry.
This [...]
Press Release #20/2009
The European Film Academy proudly announces that the award
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2009 - Prix ARTE
goes to the film
THE SOUND OF INSECTS - Record of a Mummy
by Peter Liechti, Switzerland
In co-operation with the European culture channel ARTE, the European Film Academy annually honours an outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking. The recipient [...]
Press Release #19/2009
The European Film Academy proudly announces the nominations in the category EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2009 - PRIX ARTE. There is a total of ten documentary films nominated. Upon invitation by the city of Vilnius, this year’s documentary jury will now convene in the Lithuanian capital to screen the nominated films and decide [...]
Press Release #18/2009
French actress to receive EFA’s EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2009
Whether it is as a Jewish refugee in Diane Kurys’ COUP DE FOUDRE, as late 17th century Madame de Maintenon in SAINT-CYR by Patricia Mazuy, or as Magistrate Jeanne Charmant in Claude Chabrol’s L’IVRESSE DU POUVOIR, Isabelle Huppert has [...]
Cyprus, 18 - 21 September 2009
This year’s SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY took 10 young European filmmakers and EFA members László Kántor (Hungary), Andreas Pantzis (Cyprus) and Hervé Schneid (France) as well as project and script consultant Gabriele Brunnenmeyer (Germany) to the island of Cyprus, where they spent a weekend packed with screenings of the participants’ [...]