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SHOOTING STARS as presenters for European Film Awards Ceremony

Eight of Europe's best actors, who were named as SHOOTING STARS at the Berlinale in previous years, will serve as presenters at the 21st European Film Awards (EFA) ceremony in Copenhagen on the 6th of December. Introduced not long ago in Berlin as newcomers to the world's film scene, they are now sought-after names internationally, ready to be ambassadors for European cinema at the EFA ceremony this year. As of 1998, the SHOOTING STARS event has been supported by the EU's MEDIA Programme.

European Film Promotion (EFP), the promotional network for European cinema and initiator of SHOOTING STARS, is pleased to welcome to Copenhagen Stefano Accorsi from Italy, Stine Fischer Christensen from Denmark, Anna Geislerová from the Czech Republic, Hannah Herzsprung from Germany, Thure Lindhardt from Denmark, Anamaria Marinca from Romania, Labina Mitevska from Macedonia (member of the SHOOTING STARS' jury 2009) and Mark O'Halloran from Ireland. For their lead roles in Flame and Citron Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen are nominated as 'Best Actor' at the European Film Awards in 2008.

Marion Döring, Director of the European Film Academy says: "Like European Film Promotion with the SHOOTING STARS programme, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions are aiming - through the annual European Film Awards - to bring European films to the audience. Actors play a vital role in raising the public's attention because they are the ones the audiences identify with. This is also the reason why in the European Film Awards ceremony most of the awards are presented by actors - thus serving as ambassadors of the film cultures in Europe."

SHOOTING STARS at the EFA Ceremony in Copenhagen 2008

Stefano Accorsi, Italy, SHOOTING STAR 2001
Recent Films:
Baby Blues by Diane Bertrand
Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido
Un Viaggio Chiamato Amore by Michele Placido

Stine F. Christensen, Denmark, SHOOTING STAR 2008
Recent Films:
Vilde Svaner by Ghita N¢rby, Peter Flinth
Echo by Anders Morgenthaler
After The Wedding by Susanne Bier

Anna Geislerová, Czech Republic, SHOOTING STAR 2004
Recent Films:
Medvidek by Jan Hřebejk
Beauty in Trouble by Jan Hřebejk
Something like Happiness by Bohdan Sláma

Hannah Herzsprung, Germany, SHOOTING STAR 2008
Recent Films:
The Reader by Stephen Daldry
10 Seconds by Nicolai Rohde
Four Minutes by Chris Kraus

Thure Lindhardt, Denmark, SHOOTING STAR 2000
Recent Films:
Angels & Demons by Ron Howard
Into the Wild by Sean Penn
Flame and Citron by Ole Christian Madsen

Anamaria Marinca, Romania, SHOOTING STAR 2008
Recent Films:
The Countess by Julie Delpy
Youth without Youth by Francis Ford Coppola
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu

Labina Mitevska, UK, SHOOTING STAR 1998
Recent Films:
I am from Titov Veles by Teona Strugar Mitevska
Warchild by Christian Wagner
Loners by David Ondricek

Mark O'Halloran, Ireland, SHOOTING STAR 2005
Recent Films:
Garage by Lenny Abrahamson (screenwriter)
Adam and Paul by Lenny Abrahamson (actor and screenwriter)