The 2022 Eurimages Co-Production Award might be awarded collectively to all Ukrainian producers in a present of solidarity in a 12 months by which Ukraine’s movie and TV business have been devastated by the Russian invasion.
The prize, a joint initiative between the European Film Academy and Eurimages, the cultural assist fund of the Council of Europe, is generally given to a person producer who has been energetic when it comes to co-productions.
The award was created to acknowledge the decisive function co-productions play in fostering worldwide alternate.
Past recipients have included Norway’s Maria Ekerhovd (2021), Luís Urbano (2020), Ankica Jurić Tilić (2019), the Netherlands’ Leonine Petit (2016), Italy’s Andrea Occhipinti (2015) and France’s Margaret Menegoz (2007).
“Exceptionally, this year’s Eurimages Co-Production Award is given to not one, but all producers of Ukraine, as an expression of strong appreciation for the growing quality of Ukrainian production in the past years, and as a sign of ongoing support now that the infrastructure for production support within Ukraine has collapsed,” the 2 our bodies stated in a joint assertion.
“In 2022, Eurimages and the European Film Academy (EFA) wish to express their full support to Ukrainian film producers and for efforts to give continuity to the film industry in these difficult times,” it continued.
The award might be introduced by a delegation of Ukrainian producers who’re EFA members on the ceremony of the thirty fifth of European Film Awards on December 10 in Reykjavík.
Ukrainian movies to have made it to the nomination stage within the upcoming awards embrace Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Reflection which is the working for Best Feature Film whereas Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Pamfir has been nominated for European Discovery – Prix Fipresci.
In addition, there are two co-productions involving Ukraine within the working. Danish director Simon Lereng Wilmont’s A House Made Of Splinters, a few kids’s residence in Eastern Ukraine, is nominated for Best European Documentary and Czech filmmaker Peter Kerekes’ 107 Mothers, about feminine jail inmates in Odesa who’re incarcerated with their kids, which can be within the working for the European Discovery – Prix Fipresci.
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