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.