Young Juries Across Europe Screen Nominated Films GIRL IN FLIGHT, HOBBYHORSE REVOLUTION and WALLAY – all of which will then be available as VOD for the general public
GIRL IN FLIGHT
LA FUGA – GIRL IN FLIGHT
DIRECTED BY: Sandra Vannucchi
WRITTEN BY: Sandra Vannucchi & Michael King
PRODUCED BY: Michael King & Ruedi Gerber
fiction, Italy / Switzerland
A tender, frightening and exciting emotional journey.
HOBBYHORSE REVOLUTION
DIRECTED BY: Selma Vilhunen
WRITTEN BY: Selma Vilhunen & Okku Nuutilainen
PRODUCED BY: Venla Hellstedt & Elli Toivoniemi
documentary, Finland
A funny and moving film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and making hobbyhorses.
WALLAY
DIRECTED BY: Berni Goldblat
WRITTEN BY: David Bouchet
PRODUCED BY: Nicolas Anthomé
fiction, France / Burkina Faso / Qatar
13-year-old Ady is sent to his uncle in Burkina Faso for the summer.
The nominations were chosen by an international committee consisting of Manlio Castagna(Giffoni International Film Festival/Italy), Ana Cerar (International Film Festival Kino Otok - Isola Cinema/ Slovenia), Corinna Downing (London Film Festival - British Film Institute/UK), EFA Board Member Vanessa Henneman (talent agent/The Netherlands) and Holger Twele (film educator/Germany).
On 6 May, the three nominated films will be screened to audiences of 12 – 14 year-olds in the following 36countries across Europe and beyond:
AUSTRALIA: Brisbane
AUSTRIA: St. Pölten & Vienna
BELGIUM: Brussels
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Sarajevo
BULGARIA: Sofia
CROATIA: Zagreb
CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague
DENMARK: Aalborg
ESTONIA: Tallinn
FINLAND: Helsinki
FRANCE: Bourg Saint Maurice – Les Arcs
GERMANY: Berlin, Chemnitz & Erfurt
GREECE: Athens
HUNGARY: Budapest
IRELAND: Dublin
ISRAEL: Tel Aviv
ITALY: Florence, Rome & Turin
KOSOVO: Prizren
LATVIA: Riga
LITHUANIA: Vilnius
LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg
FYR MACEDONIA: Skopje
MALTA: Valletta
MONTENEGRO: Podgorica
THE NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam
POLAND: Łódź, Warsaw & Wrocław
PORTUGAL: Lisbon
ROMANIA: Cluj-Napoca
SERBIA: Niš
SLOVAKIA: Bratislava
SLOVENIA: Izola
SPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid & Seville
SWEDEN: Båstad
SWITZERLAND: Lucerne
TURKEY: Istanbul
UK: London
And it is the young audience that will act as a jury and vote for the winner right after the screenings. In a truly European vote, jury speakers will then transmit the national results live via video conference to Erfurt (Germany) where the winner will be announced in an award ceremony streamed live on yaa.europeanfilmawards.eu, a special website that offers further information about the nominated films and the participating cities.
But the YAA now also includes various platforms for the general public to watch the nominated films: EFA Productions, EFA’s in-house production company, will bring the EFA Young Audience Award films out Europe-wide on Video-on-Demand (T-VoD) platforms, like iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft and Pantaflix, on the regional Balkan-platform Cinesquare, as well as on local platforms like Filmin or Univerciné!
EFA Productions teamed up with Under The Milky Way for this initiative with the support of Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union, to make the nominated films available for young viewers all year around. Finally, those who could not participate in the EFA Young Audience Award event will have the possibility to watch the nominated films online. VoD is a great way to reach this age group to promote the EFA Young Audience Award and the films nominated for it.
For the opening of the VoD initiative, the films of the last three editions as well as the three films nominated in 2018 will all go online on 7 May, one day after this year's EFA Young Audience Award. Films nominated in earlier editions will then follow next year.
The EFA Young Audience Award 2018 is realised with the following partners:
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRIA: Austrian Film Academy
BELGIUM:
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA:
BULGARIA: Sofia Art Fest
CROATIA: Zagreb Film Festival
CZECH REPUBLIC:
DENMARK: UCN, Centre for Educational Resources
ESTONIA:
FINLAND:
FRANCE:
GERMANY: Intl. Film Festival Schlingel (Chemnitz), German Children’s Media Foundation Golden Sparrow (Erfurt)
GREECE: Hellenic Film Academy
HUNGARY: Hungarian National Film Fund
IRELAND: Irish Film Institute & Creative Europe Desk Ireland
ISRAEL: Tel Aviv Cinematheque
ITALY: Niels Stensen Cultural Foundation (Florence), Alice nella città, with Fondazione Cinema per Roma (Rome), National Cinema Museum (Turin)
KOSOVO: DokuFest
LATVIA: National Film Centre of Latvia
LITHUANIA: Lithuanian Film Centre
LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg City Film Festival
FYR MACEDONIA: Macedonian Film Agency
MALTA : Creative Europe Desk Malta
MONTENEGRO:
THE NETHERLANDS: EYE Filmmuseum
POLAND: New Horizons Association
PORTUGAL:
ROMANIA: EducaTIFF
SERBIA: Free Zone Festival
SLOVAKIA:
SLOVENIA: Otok
SPAIN: Filmoteca de Catalunya (Barcelona), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain (Madrid), Seville European Film Festival (Seville)
SWEDEN:
SWITZERLAND:
TURKEY: Yapimlab
UK: British Film Institute
The EFA Young Audience Award is organised and presented by the European Film Academy and EFA Productions with the support of Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union. The national YAA events are organised with the support of the respective national partners.
Berlin, 27 February 2018
NOTE TO EDITORS: Printable film stills are available from http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/Pictures.212.0.ht