25-09-2009

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS WITH NEW CATEGORY FOR ANIMATION

    The European Film Academy and CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, take great pleasure in announcing the creation of a new award category for the European Film Awards:

    EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM.

    The award honours outstanding achievements in European animation film. A committee of experts will now select three nominations. The nominated films will then be submitted to the EFA Members to elect the winner who will be presented at the European Film Awards Ceremony on 12 December in Germany's Ruhr Metropolis.

    The European Film Awards 2009 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and EFA Productions gGmbH with the support of the Minister President and the Minister for Federal and European Affairs and the Media of North Rhine-Westphalia, Filmstiftung NRW, RUHR.2010, the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, the MEDIA Programme of the EU, FFA German Federal Film Board, and TNT Express.

    Berlin, 23 September 2009
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    Pascal Edelmann
    Head of Press & PR
    EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY e.V.
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    Director: Marion Döring / registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg 14236 Nz

    THE 22nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
    Ruhr Metropolis/Germany, 12 Dec 2009

    The European Film Awards 2009 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and EFA Productions gGmbH with the support of the Minister President and the Minister for Federal and European Affairs and the Media of North Rhine-Westphalia, Filmstiftung NRW, RUHR.2010, the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, the MEDIA Programme of the EU, FFA German Federal Film Board, and TNT Express.

    PATRONS: CENTRO NIEMEYER * CINECITTÀ LUCE S.p.A. * DANISH FILM INSTITUTE * EGEDA * ERNST & YOUNG GMBH * EURIMAGES * FUNDAÇÃO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN * ICA - INSTITUTO DO CINEMA E DO AUDIOVISUAL * KORDA STUDIOS * MALTA FILM COMMISSION * MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE OF CYPRUS (CULTURAL SERVICES) * POLISH FILM INSTITUTE * PROKINO * SEVILLE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL, A PROJECT OF ICAS, ORGANISED BY ANDALUCIA FILM COMMISSION AND SPONSORED BY EMASESA * AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI * SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE * TELEWIZJA POLSKA S.A. (TVP) * UGC CINE CITE SAS * ZENTROPA PRODUCTIONS *

    Charles McDonald

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