20-03-2018

The 7th EFA Young Audience Award Includes Record 45 Cities in 36 Countries

     

    Young Juries Across Europe Screen Nominated Films GIRL IN FLIGHT, HOBBYHORSE REVOLUTION and WALLAY – all of which will then be available as VOD for the general public

    The European Film Academy (EFA) proudly announces and congratulates the three nominees for the EFA Young Audience Award 2018: 

    GIRL IN FLIGHT 
    LA FUGA – GIRL IN FLIGHT
    DIRECTED BY: Sandra Vannucchi 
    WRITTEN BY: Sandra Vannucchi & Michael King
    PRODUCED BY: Michael King & Ruedi Gerber
    fiction, Italy / Switzerland

    A tender, frightening and exciting emotional journey.

    HOBBYHORSE REVOLUTION
    DIRECTED BY: Selma Vilhunen
    WRITTEN BY: Selma Vilhunen & Okku Nuutilainen
    PRODUCED BY: Venla Hellstedt & Elli Toivoniemi
    documentary, Finland

    A funny and moving film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and making hobbyhorses.

    WALLAY 
    DIRECTED BY: Berni Goldblat
    WRITTEN BY: David Bouchet
    PRODUCED BY: Nicolas Anthomé
    fiction, France / Burkina Faso / Qatar

    13-year-old Ady is sent to his uncle in Burkina Faso for the summer.

    The nominations were chosen by an international committee consisting of Manlio Castagna (Giffoni International Film Festival/Italy), Ana Cerar (International Film Festival Kino Otok - Isola Cinema/ Slovenia), Corinna Downing (London Film Festival - British Film Institute/UK), EFA Board Member Vanessa Henneman (talent agent/The Netherlands) and Holger Twele (film educator/Germany).

    On 6 May, the three nominated films will be screened to audiences of 12 – 14 year-olds in the following 36 countries across Europe and beyond:

    AUSTRALIA: Brisbane

    AUSTRIA: St. Pölten & Vienna
    BELGIUM: Brussels
    BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Sarajevo
    BULGARIA: Sofia
    CROATIA: Zagreb
    CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague
    DENMARK: Aalborg
    ESTONIA: Tallinn
    FINLAND: Helsinki
    FRANCE: Bourg Saint Maurice – Les Arcs

    GERMANY: Berlin, Chemnitz & Erfurt
    GREECE: Athens
    HUNGARY: Budapest
    IRELAND: Dublin

    ISRAEL: Tel Aviv
    ITALY: Florence, Rome & Turin
    KOSOVO: Prizren

    LATVIA: Riga
    LITHUANIA: Vilnius
    LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg
    FYR MACEDONIA: Skopje
    MALTA:  Valletta
    MONTENEGRO: Podgorica
    THE NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam
    POLAND: Łódź, Warsaw & Wrocław
    PORTUGAL: Lisbon
    ROMANIA: Cluj-Napoca

    SERBIA: Niš
    SLOVAKIA: Bratislava

    SLOVENIA: Izola
    SPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid & Seville

    SWEDEN: Båstad            

    SWITZERLAND: Lucerne

    TURKEY: Istanbul
    UK: London

     

    And it is the young audience that will act as a jury and vote for the winner right after the screenings. In a truly European vote, jury speakers will then transmit the national results live via video conference to Erfurt (Germany) where the winner will be announced in an award ceremony streamed live on yaa.europeanfilmawards.eu, a special website that offers further information about the nominated films and the participating cities.

    But the YAA now also includes various platforms for the general public to watch the nominated films: EFA Productions, EFA’s in-house production company, will bring the EFA Young Audience Award films out Europe-wide on Video-on-Demand (T-VoD) platforms, like iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft and Pantaflix, on the regional Balkan-platform Cinesquare, as well as on local platforms like Filmin or Univerciné!

    EFA Productions teamed up with Under The Milky Way for this initiative with the support of Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union, to make the nominated films available for young viewers all year around. Finally, those who could not participate in the EFA Young Audience Award event will have the possibility to watch the nominated films online. VoD is a great way to reach this age group to promote the EFA Young Audience Award and the films nominated for it.

    For the opening of the VoD initiative, the films of the last three editions as well as the three films nominated in 2018 will all go online on 7 May, one day after this year's EFA Young Audience Award. Films nominated in earlier editions will then follow next year.

    The EFA Young Audience Award 2018 is realised with the following partners:
    AUSTRALIA: Asia Pacific Screen Awards
    AUSTRIA: Austrian Film Academy
    BELGIUM: Filem’On & Le Palace
    BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Sarajevo Film Festival & Meeting Point cinema
    BULGARIA: Sofia Art Fest
    CROATIA: Zagreb Film Festival
    CZECH REPUBLIC: Krutón, z.s.
    DENMARK: UCN, Centre for Educational Resources
    ESTONIA: NGO Kinobuss
    FINLAND: Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy
    FRANCE: Les Arcs European Film Festival
    GERMANY: Intl. Film Festival Schlingel (Chemnitz), German Children’s Media Foundation Golden Sparrow (Erfurt)
    GREECE: Hellenic Film Academy
    HUNGARY: Hungarian National Film Fund
    IRELAND: Irish Film Institute & Creative Europe Desk Ireland
    ISRAEL:                Tel Aviv Cinematheque
    ITALY: Niels Stensen Cultural Foundation (Florence), Alice nella città, with Fondazione Cinema per Roma (Rome), National Cinema Museum (Turin)
    KOSOVO: DokuFest
    LATVIA: National Film Centre of Latvia
    LITHUANIA: Lithuanian Film Centre
    LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg City Film Festival
    FYR MACEDONIA: Macedonian Film Agency
    MALTA : Creative Europe Desk Malta
    MONTENEGRO: Podgorica Film Festival & Montenegrin Cinematheque & Film Center of Montenegro
    THE NETHERLANDS: EYE Filmmuseum
    POLAND: New Horizons Association
    PORTUGAL: Portuguese Academy of Film & ICA
    ROMANIA: EducaTIFF
    SERBIA: Free Zone Festival
    SLOVAKIA: Visegrad Film Forum
    SLOVENIA: Otok
    SPAIN: Filmoteca de Catalunya (Barcelona), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain (Madrid), Seville European Film Festival (Seville)
    SWEDEN: Scala
    SWITZERLAND: Zoomz – Film Festival for Children & Youth
    TURKEY: Yapimlab
    UK: British Film Institute

    The EFA Young Audience Award is organised and presented by the European Film Academy and EFA Productions with the support of Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union. The national YAA events are organised with the support of the respective national partners.