Accreditation Form

34th European Film Awards
Berlin

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3. Type of accreditation

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I agree to the following Terms and Conditions of the media accreditation procedure of the European Film Academy for the European Film Awards

By submitting the accreditation form, the media representative accepts and agrees to the following:

The entered and transmitted personal data will be stored in the European Film Academy database and used to contact you in connection with the accreditation process and for information purposes concerning the European Film Awards.

Representative’s name, media outlet and country may be passed on to other accredited media representatives, to our partners, sponsors and funding institutions, as well as to the agents of the nominees and winners of the European Film Awards. Furthermore, this information may be stored in order to fulfill our reporting obligations to the funding institutions and for other statistical evaluation.

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Participating in the European Film Awards implies the unconditional acceptance of the above conditions.

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Feature films

Eligibility

Feature films participating in the European Film Awards 2022 must be European* feature-length fiction films intended for theatrical release which must have had their first official screening (be it at a festival, at a regular cinema or online) between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022. The Academy Board has the right to refrain from this rule in exceptional cases.

The films must have a director who was born in Europe or holds a European* passport.

In order to be eligible, the film has to fulfill at least one of the following criteria:

To have been awarded at major festivals
To have received acclaim at international festivals
To have been theatrically released in at least three countries or sold for such release

Films have to be submitted by their rights-holders. Rights-holders agree to provide the films for the academy’s VOD platform. The version submitted has to be the original language version with English subtitles (for English-language films this is recommended but not mandatory).

Submission deadline for feature films is 31 May 2022.

Contact for film submission and further information: submission

Selection procedure

The board and a group of experts appointed by the board select 35 – 45 films for the FEATURE FILM SELECTION proposed to the academy members to be considered for a nomination.

The selected films are made available on the academy’s VOD platform to the members for the nomination procedure.

Rights-holders of European* films which are not among the selected films may – upon payment of a fee – make their films available to the academy members on the VOD platform.

Nomination procedure

There are five nominations in each of the following categories:

European Film
European Director
European Actress
European Actor
European Screenwriter

Based on the FEATURE FILM SELECTION and the films additionally made available by rights-holders, four of the nominations in each of these categories are voted for by the academy members. The board adds one nomination in each category. The board’s nominations may also be chosen from films nominated as EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – Prix FIPRESCI, EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY and EUROPEAN COMEDY.

These nominations will be announced four to five weeks prior to the European Film Awards Ceremony.

There are additional nominations in each of the following categories:

European Comedy (3 films)
European Discoery – Prix FIPRESCI (6 films)

Election of the winners

Based on the nominations, the academy members vote for the winners in the following categories:

European Film
European Comedy
European Discovery – Prix Fipresci
European Director
European Actress
European Actor
European Screenwriter

Based on the FEATURE FILM SELECTION, a special excellence awards jury decides on the awards recipients in the following categories

European Cinematography
European Editing
European Production Design
European Costume Design
European Make-up & Hair
European Original Score
European Sound
European Visual Effects

There are no nominations in these categories.

* The criteria whereby a film qualifies as European are based upon the Council of Europe Convention on Cinematographic Co-production (CETS No. 220). European, in the sense of the European Film Academy, means geographical Europe, both EU and non-EU, and shall include Israeli and Palestinian