22/03/2010

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s La Pivellina [+see also:
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Best Documentary went to Birgitte Weich and Karin Macher for Hana, dul, sed…. Sabine Marte’s B-star, untötbar! Reloaded received the Diagonale prize for innovative cinema for Best Experimental, Animated or Short Film.

Huseyin Tabak’s documentary Kick-Off won the Youth Jury prize for Best Young Talent Film and the Audience Award.

The Diocese Graz-Seckau Prize for Best Documentary or Short Film was awarded to Juliane Grossheim for Die Kinder vom Friedrichshof.

Andreas Lust and Franziska Weisz won Best Actor and Best Actress respectively for Benjamin Hassenberg’s The Robber [+see also:
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interview: Benjamin Heisenberg
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The Austrian Editors Association Award went to Gerhard Fillei and Joachim Krenn for fiction film South and Michael Palm for the documentary Jobcenter. The Austrian Association of Cinematographers Prize was given to Christian Berger for The White Ribbon [+see also:
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Wolfgang Rupert Muhr received the Carl Mayer Script Award for Grossmattglocknerhorn and the Thomas Pluch Script Prize went to Jessica Hausner for Lourdes [+see also:
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The prize for innovative production went to Neue Sentimental Film for Plastic Planet; Dor Film for The Bone Man [+see also:
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