16-10-2012

FIVE DEBUT FILMS NOMINATED FOR EFA DISCOVERY AWARD

    The European Film Academy congratulates the nominees for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2012 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.

    This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of
    EFA Board Members Helena Danielsson (Sweden) and Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands), EFA Members
    Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well as Alin Tasciyan
    (Turkey), Paulo Portugal (Portugal), and Mihai Chirilov (Romania) as members of FIPRESCI, the International
    Federation of Film Critics.

    NOMINATED ARE:

    10 TIMER TIL PARADIS (TEDDY BEAR)

    Denmark, 92 min

    DIRECTED BY: Mads Matthiesen

    WRITTEN BY: Mads Matthiesen & Martin Pieter Zandvliet

    PRODUCED BY: Morten Kjems Juhl


    BROKEN

    UK, 90 min

    DIRECTED BY: Rufus Norris

    WRITTEN BY: Mark O’Rowe

    PRODUCED BY: Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston & Bill Kenwright


    KAUWBOY

    The Netherlands, 81 min

    DIRECTED BY: Boudewijn Koole

    WRITTEN BY: Boudewijn Koole & Jolein Laarman

    PRODUCED BY: Jan van der Zanden & Wilant Boekelman


    ПОРТРЕТ В СУМЕРКАХ / PORTRET V SUMERKHAK (TWILIGHT
    PORTRAIT)

    Russia, 105 min

    DIRECTED BY: Angelina Nikonova

    WRITTEN BY: Angelina Nikonova & Olga Dihovichnaya

    PRODUCED BY: Leonid Ogaryov, Angelina Nikonova & Olga Dihovichnaya


    DIE VERMISSTEN (REPORTED MISSING)

    Germany, 86 min

    DIRECTED BY: Jan Speckenbach

    WRITTEN BY: Jan Speckenbach & Melanie Rohde

    PRODUCED BY: Anke Hartwig


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    The European Film Awards 2012 are presented by the European Film Academy
    e.V. and EFA

    Productions gGmbH with the support of the Maltese Ministry of Finance,
    Economy and Investment,

    the Malta Film Commission, FFA German Federal Film Board, the German
    State Lottery Berlin, the

    German State Minister for Culture and the Media, the MEDIA Programme of
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