Russian director Alexander Velidinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe Away was the big winner at the 4th Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff).
The tragi-comedy picked up the Grand Prix Golden Duke, voted for by the festival audience, and the International Jury’s Golden Duke for Best Film
The $4m production, which had screened to an enthusiastic capacity audience of over 1,200 in Odessa’s Festival Palace on Thursday evening, is being handled internationally by fledgling Russian sales outfit Antipode Film Sales & Distribution and will be released theatrically in Russia on 400 prints on November 7.
Last month, Velidinsky’s film won the Grand Prix and three other awards at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi.
The prize for Best Acting went to the female leads Lika Babluani and Mariam Bokeria of Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’s In Bloom, which won the main prize at Voices in Vologda two weeks ago. The Odessa...
The tragi-comedy picked up the Grand Prix Golden Duke, voted for by the festival audience, and the International Jury’s Golden Duke for Best Film
The $4m production, which had screened to an enthusiastic capacity audience of over 1,200 in Odessa’s Festival Palace on Thursday evening, is being handled internationally by fledgling Russian sales outfit Antipode Film Sales & Distribution and will be released theatrically in Russia on 400 prints on November 7.
Last month, Velidinsky’s film won the Grand Prix and three other awards at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi.
The prize for Best Acting went to the female leads Lika Babluani and Mariam Bokeria of Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’s In Bloom, which won the main prize at Voices in Vologda two weeks ago. The Odessa...
- 7/22/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions GmbH have announced the 48 films included on this year's selection list for the European Film Awards in December.
The list is comprised of titles picked by the Efa members. In the 20 countries with the most members, they have voted one national film directly into the list. For the rest of the titles, a Selection Committee consisting of Efa Board Members and invited experts - Gunnar Bergdahl (Sweden), Stefan Kitanov (Bulgaria), Derek Malcolm (U.K.), and Nikolaj Nikitin (Germany) - has chosen the other films.
2,000 members will then vote for the nominations in the different award categories, which will be announced on November 7 at the Sevilla European Film Festival in Spain.
Winners will be presented at the 22nd European Film Awards on December 12 in Ruhr Metropolis in Germany.
The list is comprised of titles picked by the Efa members. In the 20 countries with the most members, they have voted one national film directly into the list. For the rest of the titles, a Selection Committee consisting of Efa Board Members and invited experts - Gunnar Bergdahl (Sweden), Stefan Kitanov (Bulgaria), Derek Malcolm (U.K.), and Nikolaj Nikitin (Germany) - has chosen the other films.
2,000 members will then vote for the nominations in the different award categories, which will be announced on November 7 at the Sevilla European Film Festival in Spain.
Winners will be presented at the 22nd European Film Awards on December 12 in Ruhr Metropolis in Germany.
- 9/7/2009
- icelebz.com
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