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PRESS RELEASE 31 January 2013 #1
Awards for Best CineMart Projects 2013 handed out
The 30th CineMart, co-production market of International Film Festival
Rotterdam concluded yesterday, Wednesday 30 January in Rotterdam, with the
announcement of the three awards for best CineMart Projects 2013.
Jätten (The Giant) by Johannes Nyholm (Denmark/Sweden) wins the Eurimages
Co-Production Development Award; the ARTE International Prize goes to The
Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos (Ireland/UK/Greece) and the WorldView New Genres
Fund Development Award goes to Zama by Lucrecia Martel (Argentina/Spain).
The Jury for the CineMart Awards consisted of Olivier Père (ARTE France
Cinéma), Petri Kemppinen (Finnish Film Foundation / Eurimages
representative), Annamaria Lodato (ARTE France), Himesh Kar (WorldView) and
Amy Richardson (Worldview).
The winners and the Jury statements are:
Eurimages Co-Production Development Award
The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award (30,000 Euro) for the Best
CineMart 2013 Project with a European partner is given to Jätten (The Giant)
by Johannes Nyholm, a co-production of BeoFilm Productions (Denmark) and
Garagefilm International (Sweden).
‘A project of a talented filmmaker who is about to make a leap from widely
appreciated short films to his first fiction that will a tender melodrama.’
Johannes Nyholm (1974, Sweden) is an artist and film director based in
Gothenburg. The animated film series The Tale of Little Puppetboy (2006) was
originally shown at, and made for, gallery screenings. But it has also been
shown widely at festivals around the world. The music video Twice, for
Little Dragon, was the origin for the short film Dreams from the Woods
(2009), which premiered in Cannes. Even before being completed, his latest
short, Las Palmas (2011), gained a global reputation through a trailer more
successful than any Hollywood blockbuster. The Giant will be Nyholm’s first
feature film.
ARTE International Prize
The ARTE International Prize (7,000 Euro) for the Best CineMart 2013 Project
is given to The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos, a production of Element
Pictures (Ireland/United Kingdom/Greece).
‘A very exciting and original project from one of the most talented emerging
filmmakers of the last decade.’
Yorgos Lanthimos (1973, Greece) filmed a series of videos for dance theatre
companies throughout the 1990's. Since 1995, he has directed a number of TV
commercials, in addition to music videos, short films and stage plays. His
first feature film, Kinetta (2005), screened to critical acclaim at the 2005
Toronto International Film Festival. His second feature, Dogtooth (2009),
won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Alps
(2011), his latest film, premiered in competition at the Venice Film
Festival, where it won the Osella Award for best screenplay.
WorldView New Genres Fund Development Award
The WorldView New Genres Fund Development Award (5,000 Euro) for the Best
CineMart 2013 Project is given to Zama by Lucrecia Martel, a co-production
of Lita Stantic Producciones (Argentina) and El Deseo (Spain).
‘A visually stunning and uniquely approached period project by one of South
America’s most influential director.’
Lucrecia Martel (1966, Argentina) made several short films, a children's
television programme and documentaries. Her first full-length film, La
ciénaga (2001), won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2001 Berlinale; La niña
santa (2004), her second feature, was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the
2004 Cannes Film Festival. Martel’s latest feature is La mujer sin cabeza
(2008), which premiered in Competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. All
Martel’s features have been selected for the International Film Festival
Rotterdam.
CineMart was the first platform of its kind to offer filmmakers the
opportunity to launch their ideas to the international film industry and to
find the right connections to get their projects additionally financed.
CineMart also heralds an important start of the 'film year'.
Every year, the CineMart invites a select number of directors/producers to
present their film projects to co-producers, funds, sales agents,
distributors, TV stations and other potential financiers.
For its 30th edition, CineMart selected thirty-four projects. The selection
included four ‘Art:Film’ projects and four projects from this year’s Boost!
program.
CineMart is supported by:
MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Rotterdam Development Corporation (DSO)
Netherlands Film Fund
MEDIA Mundus
ARTE France Cinéma
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PRESS RELEASE 31 January 2013 #2
Les chevaux de Dieu favorite of young people’s jury MovieZone at IFFR
2013
The film Les chevaux de Dieu by Nabil Ayouch (Morocco/France/Belgium, 2012)
has won the MovieZone IFFR Award 2013, which was announced by the young
people’s jury of the International Film Festival Rotterdam this afternoon
during the MovieZone Award Ceremony.
The MovieZone jury consisted of five members aged 17 to 19 years: Freek
Vrijhof, Sa-Ra Zwarteveen, Wesley Kalksma, Anne Rietmeijer and Melvin
Kalksma. They have seen twenty films, met directors and press and enjoyed
film parties. The MovieZone jury gives young people the opportunity to fully
experience a film festival and to present their opinions on film. They
selected the winner out of twenty festival films that were up for
consideration. The jury also nominated the films Io e te (Bernardo
Bertolucci, Italy, 2012) and Callgirl (Mikael Marcimain,
Sweden/Ireland/Norway/Finland, 2012).
Winner
In their statement about Les chevaux de Dieu the jury said:
“The film shows a situation we know from the newspapers in a special and
authentic way, from the perspective of the young Morrocon boys who live in
the slumbs. We all felt that this story should be told and found almost
every aspect of this film good!”
The winner of the MovieZone IFFR Award 2013 has a chance to be programmed in
one of the film educational programs of EYE, like MovieZone.
Les chevaux de Dieu will be released in The Netherlands by Cinéart, starting
May 2nd 2013.
MovieZone IFFR jury is an initiative of EYE in cooperation with the
International Film Festival Rotterdam and is sponsored by SNS REAAL Fonds.
About MovieZone jury
MovieZone jury (previously MovieSquad) is organised by EYE in cooperation
with the bigger filmfestivals in the Netherlands. MovieZone gives young
people a chance to experience a filmfestival to the fullest and express
their own opinion about films. The members of the jury watch a selection of
films and the best film receives the MovieZone Award. The film also has a
chance to be programmed in one of the film educational programs of EYE, like
MovieZone. In this way young people contribute to nationwide film programs.
The winning film receives 1.500 euro which is to be used to promote the film
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PRESS RELEASE 28 January 2013
Short films awarded at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013
Monday 28 January, Beatrice Gibson’s The Tiger’s Mind (UK), Zachary
Formwalt’s Unsupported Transit (Netherlands) and Erik van Lieshout’s Janus
(Netherlands) were awarded the three equal Canon Tiger Awards for Short
Films 2013.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam short film nominee for the
European Film Awards 2013 is Though I Know the River Is Dry by Omar Robert
Hamilton (Egypt).
Canon Netherlands, sponsor of the Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films, offers
a Canon camera EOS-M to each of the four winners.
Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
The ninth Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films comprises twenty-three
films with a length of up to sixty minutes. For its Jury the IFFR welcomed
filmmaker, photographer and producer Phil Collins (UK/Germany), visual
artist Joost Rekveld (Netherlands) and Transat Video CEO Brent Klinkum (New
Zealand/France). The Jury handed out the three equal Canon Tiger Awards for
Short Film (3,000 Euros) to the winning filmmakers at IFFR venue WORM in
Rotterdam on Monday evening 28 January 2013.
The three winners and the jury statements are:
The Tiger’s Mind by Beatrice Gibson, UK, 2012
An investigation into the mechanics of film production that strongly draws
on a modernist heritage by using codes from a wide variety of artistic
disciplines. Incorporating a testimony of the process of its own making, it
intelligently weaves together a visually compelling plot, in which spaces
and objects also have a distinct voice. The roles of routinely overlooked
collaborators are placed at the forefront as a cast cryptically involved in
a murder mystery.
Artist Beatrice Gibson makes her (research-based) work site-specific and
participatory by using different mediums. A Necessary Music (2008), made
with composer Alex Waterman, won the Canon Tiger Award for Best Short Film
at the IFFR in 2009. Gibson is currently a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths'
Centre for Research Architecture.
(See: www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/the-tiger-s-mind/)
Unsupported Transit by Zachary Formwalt, Netherlands, 2011
An esthetically and intellectually bold statement. Long, time-lapsed shots
invite the viewer to meditate on the historical roots of the film's thematic
material and its mode of depiction, offering a near-physical experience of
the weight of a monumental symbol. It's the essayistic, poetic marshalling
of the histories of cinema and photography, in relation to Marx and Engels'
analysis of the stock exchange that offers the foundation for a convincing
work by a promising young artist.
Zachary Formwalt is an artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Among other
places, his work has been shown at Kunsthalle Basel and Casco - Office for
Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht. The world economy is a recurrent theme in
his photographs and videos. In 2012, Formwalt won the Illy Prize in
Rotterdam.
(See: www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/unsupported-transit/)
Janus by Erik van Lieshout, Netherlands, 2012
In Janus we enter the psychosis of a commitment to the camera. The camera as
a tool of
provoking, agitating and effortlessly connecting with a cast of characters
who reflect on art as an inclusive form of communication and social
interaction. The author is by turns fearless, at other moments courageous in
his honesty and naivety, and totally present in an informal, colloquial
register. This work is a wake-up call to the fact that the world just
outside our front door is one ready for discovery and engagement in ways
that are transformative.
Erik van Lieshout makes installations, sculptures and films. Van Lieshout
has won several important art awards. He finds inspiration in subcultures
and the problems of urban life, and often performs as an actor in his own
films. He lives and works in Rotterdam.
(See: www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/janus/)
IFFR 2013 Short Film Nominee for the European Awards 2013
Chosen by the Jury of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Film 2013, the
International Film Festival Rotterdam short film nominee for the European
Film Awards 2013 is:
Though I Know the River Is Dry by Omar Robert Hamilton, Egypt/Palestine/UK,
2013
The film is remarkable in the way it connects contemporary political issues
with emotional dillema's. Its cinematographic language builds on the
qualities of the photographic composition, the direction of the actors and
the subtle and intelligent use of archival material. The result embodies a
poetic and restrained approach to questions which unfortunately are becoming
more and more commonplace. In a particularly undogmatic manner, it offers
multiple readings, while simultaneously sharply addressing historical,
political and economical realities.
Independent filmmaker, producer and photographer Omar Robert Hamilton is
based in Cairo. He is the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature in
Jerusalem and co-founder of the Mosireen Film collective, which arose from
the Egyptian revolution. Though I Know the River Is Dry is the first
independent, crowd-sourced film in the post-revolutionary Arab world.
Hamilton's photographs have been published by The Guardian, BBC News and The
Economist.
(See:
www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/though-i-know-the-river-is-dry/) |
