European Film Academy

Press release # 12/2010
NOMINATIONS AND MEMBERS OF THE JURY
The European Film Academy proudly announces the three nominations in the category EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2010.
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, Mark [...]

Press release # 11/2010
At the 23rd European Film Awards the European Film Academy will Honour Swiss Actor
Whether it is as an angel in WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) by Wim Wenders, in the Italian comedy BREAD & TULIPS (2000) by Silvio Soldini, or impersonating Adolf Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s THE DOWNFALL (2004), Bruno Ganz has lent [...]

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Venice International Film Festival congratulate the
Venice Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
THE EXTERNAL WORLD
by David OReilly
Germany 2010, 15 min., animation
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2010. It was selected by the festival’s Orizzonti [...]

Press release # 09/2010
It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions gGmbH announce the titles of the 46 films on this year’s selection list, the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2010! With 32 countries represented, the list once again illustrates the great diversity [...]

Press release # 8/2010
European Film Academy Opens Vote for People’s Choice Award
The People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film and win a trip to the European Film Awards Ceremony. Every year, when the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, designers, nominees [...]

Locarno nominates DIARCHIA from Italy, a short film by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino starring Alba Rohrwacher, Riccardo Scamarcio and Louis Garrel …

The Sarajevo festival nominates a French short film for the European Film Awards: RENDEZ-VOUS A STELLA-PLAGE by Shalimar Preuss, a film about …

The film academies network FAN of Europe once again met in the Czech Republic, on occasion of the 45th Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Attending were representatives of the European Film Academy and of the national film academies of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Spain and the UK.

The Austrian-Argentinian short film TALLERES CLANDESTINOS has been selected at the Curtas Vila do Conde - International Short Film Festival in Portugal for a nomination for the 23rd European Film Awards.

Press release # 06/2010
SHORT FILM NOMINEES FOR EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
ANNOUNCED IN GRIMSTAD AND EDINBURGH
The European Film Academy (EFA) takes pleasure in announcing the following two new entries in the nomination procedure for the short film category of the European Film Awards 2010:
Grimstad Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
HANOI - WARSZAWA by Katarzyna [...]

Press release # 05/2010

SWEDISH SHORT NOMINATED FOR EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Krakow Film Festival congratulate the
Cracow Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
TUSSILAGO
by Jonas Odell
Sweden 2010, 15 min., animation
West German terrorist Norbert Kröcher was arrested in Stockholm on 31 March 1977. He was the leader of a [...]

Press release # 4/2010
FINNISH DOCUMENTARY SHORT NOMINATED
The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Tampere Film Festival congratulate the
Tampere Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
LUMIKKO (The Little Snow Animal)
by Miia Tervo
Finland 2009, 19 min., documentary
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2010. It was selected by the [...]

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 in co-operation with Florian Maier
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 [...]

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 [...]