It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the titles of the 47 films on this year’s selection list, the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2012! With 31 European countries represented, the list once again illustrates the great diversity in European cinema.
In the 20 countries with the most EFA Members, these members have voted one national film directly into the selection list. To complete the list,...
Arnon Milchan
At
the 65th edition of the Festival del film Locarno, the Premio Raimondo
Rezzonico (Best Producer Award) will be presented to Arnon Milchan, one of the
most prolific and successful American independent film producer of the past 25
years, with over 100 feature films to his cre...
European Film Awards 2011
THE SELECTION
ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND
ALMANYA
Germany/Turkey, 101 min.
DIRECTED BY: Yasemin Samdereli
WRITTEN BY: Yasemin Samdereli & Nesrin Samdereli
PRODUCED BY: Andreas Richter, Ursula Woerner & Annie Brunner
AMÉRICA
AMERICA
Portugal/Spain/Brazil/Russia, 111 min.
DIRECTED BY: João Nuno Pinto
WRITTEN BY: João Nuno Pinto, Luisa Costa Gomes & Melanie Dimantas
PRODUCED BY: Pandora Da Cun...
The Premio Raimondo Rezzonico that distinguishes an independent producer will be awarded to Menahem Golan, Israeli filmmaker, producer, and co-founder, with his cousin Yoram Globus, of the Cannon company. During the 80s he produced a multitude of B-movies and action films, but also major contemporary auteurs, from John Cassavetes to Robert Altman and Jean-Luc Godard.Wishing to highlight a key figure in film, and to salute their courage, their ability to take a risk and support auteurs, with this...
At the 62nd edition of the Locarno International Film Festival the Raimondo Rezzonico Prize 2009 for Best Independent Producer will be presented to French producer Martine Marignac. A graduate in philosophy and film aesthetics, Martine Marignac began her career as a press officer for Simon Mizrahi, with whom she worked for seven years. She has mixed with then New Wave directors such as Godard, Truffaut and Rohmer, as well as Italian filmmakers Comencini, Risi, Scola, Bellocchio and Ferreri. Mart...
