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EFA Board decides to focus on
promotion and training of young filmmakers and future audiences
Following
the successful celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the European
Film Awards, the European Film Academy’s Board has met at the
Göteborg International Film Festival in Sweden to work on the
challenges of the next decade of the Awards and their 21st edition to
be held in Copenhagen.
The Academy is particularly
proud that the Awards are hosted in the country that has produced
creators of world stature, from Dreyer to Dogma, and that has
traditionally sustained a confident and dynamic film industry, with an
amazing work in all areas of education, distribution and creation of
new films.
In the spirit of its founders, among
these Ingmar Bergman, István Szabó, Federico
Fellini, Claude Chabrol, and Lord Richard Attenborough, the Board of
the European Film Academy, in its continuing effort to promote the
films made by European talent, has decided to offer the new generations
of European creators the chance to be more involved in its activities.
In
this line, EFA is developing a system to promote new discoveries at
European film festivals. EFA will also support and create awareness for
the work of young film students and for training programmes in
different European countries. A special focus of EFA’s
commitment in the upcoming years will be on teaching the next
generations the language of the moving image and the language of
European cinema.
Gothenburg and Berlin, 5
February 2008
Pascal Edelmann
European Film Academy
phone: +49 30 887 167 0
fax:+49 30 887 167 77
press@europeanfilmacademy.org
www.europeanfilmacademy.org
