A Platform for New Talent

The short film is a genre that allows for creative experiments and provocations and invites artists to play with cinematic styles – for many filmmakers the starting point of their career. It is important for the European Film Academy to support and promote young and talented newcomers and to celebrate this variety in European film culture.

The Prix UIP is a short film initiative by UIP and the European Film Academy in co-operation with fourteen (in 2007: thirteen) festivals throughout Europe. At each of these festivals, an independent jury presents one of the European short films in competition with a Prix UIP. The prize includes a financial donation of Euro 2,000 and an automatic nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards.

The members of the European Film Academy will get to watch all nominated films and it is they who will vote for the overall winner, the European Film Academy Short Film – Prix UIP including a financial donation of Euro 10,000. The winner will be presented at the European Film Awards Ceremony.

Interviews with Prix UIP Winners

We are happy to provide
online videos of interviews with 2006 Prix UIP winners
online videos of interviews with 2007 Prix UIP winners

How to submit

In order to be considered for the Prix UIP initiative, short films (max 15 minutes) by a European director have to be selected for the competition section of any of the participating festivals as listed on the left (click on the logo for festival's website)

European Film Academy Short Film 2008 – Prix UIP

The following films have won a Prix UIP and are thus nominated for the European Film Academy Short Film 2007– Prix UIP:

Prix UIP Ghent
RAAK (Contact)
by Hanro Smitsman
Netherlands 2007, 10 min, fiction

Prix UIP Cork
THE APOLOGY LINE
by James Lees
UK 2007, 10 min, documentary

Prix UIP Valladolid
UN BISOU POUR LE MONDE (A Kiss to the World)
by Cyril Paris
France 2007, 9 min, fiction

Prix UIP Angers
PROCRASTINATION
by Johnny Kelly
UK 2007, 4 min 5 sec, animation

Prix UIP Rotterdam
JOY
by Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy
UK 2008, 10 min, fiction

Prix UIP Berlin
FRANKIE
by Darren Thornton
Ireland 2007, 12 min, fiction

Prix UIP Tampere
THE PEARCE SISTERS
by Luis Cook
UK 2007, 10 min, animation

Prix UIP Cracow
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
by Marc Reisbig
UK 2007, 7 min, animation

Prix UIP Grimstad
UGUNS (Fire)
by Laila Pakalnina
Latvia 2007, 12 min, fiction

Prix UIP Edinburgh
2 BIRDS (Smáfuglar)
by Rúnar Rúnarsson
Iceland 2008, 15 min, fiction

Prix UIP Vila do Conde
LOVE YOU MORE
by Sam Taylor-Wood
UK 2007, 15 min, fiction

Prix UIP Sarajevo
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Prix UIP Venezia
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Prix UIP Drama
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