29-09-2009

FIVE DEBUT FILMS NOMINATED FOR EFA DISCOVERY AWARD

    At the Zurich Film Festival, the European Film Academy has announced
    this year's nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY, 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 Board Members Pawel
    Pawlikowski (UK), Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands) and Pierre-Henri
    Deleau (France), Jacob Neiiendam (director of the film festival CPH:PIX,
    Denmark), as well as film journalists Dana Linssen (the Netherlands) and
    Alin Taciyan (Turkey), both of them members of FIPRESCI (International
    Federation of Film Critics). On invitation by the festival, the
    committee met in Zurich and decided on the following nominations.

    _NOMINATED ARE:_

    *AJAMI*, Germany / Israel
    written & directed by Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani
    produced by Mosh Danon, Thanassis Karathanos & Talia Kleinhendler

    *GAGMA NAPIRI (The Other Bank)*, Georgia / Kazakhstan
    directed by George Ovashvili
    written by Nugzar Shataidze
    produced by George Ohashvili & Sain Gabdullin

    *KATALIN VARGA*, Romania / UK / Hungary
    Written & directed by Peter Strickland
    produced by Tudor Giurgiu, Oana Giurgiu & Peter Strickland

    *SOIS SAGE (BE GOOD),* France / Denmark
    written & directed by Juliette Garcias
    produced by Marianne Slot

    *SONBAHAR* (Autumn), Turkey / Germany
    written & directed Özcan Alper
    produced by F. Serkan Acar & Kadir Sözen

    The nominated films will now be made available to all 2,000 members of
    the European Film Academy. They will vote for the winner who will be
    announced at the 22nd European Film Awards on 12 December in Germany's
    Ruhr Metropolis.

    /Zurich// and //Berlin//, //29 September 2009
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    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 * CINECITTŔ LUCE S.p.A. * DANISH FILM INSTITUTE
    * EGEDA * ERNST & YOUNG GMBH * EURIMAGES * FUNDAÇĂO 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 *///

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