EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011
EFA: Three in-competition documentaries unveiled
by Cineuropa
19/10/2011 - The European Film Academy (EFA) has announced the nominations in the category EFA DOCUMENTARY 2011 – PRIX ARTE. A committee consisting of Nik Powell, director of the NFTS and deputy chairman of the EFA Board, EFA Board Member Despina Mouzaki (Greece), EFA Member Francine Brücher (Switzerland), the documentary experts Claas Danielsen (International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany), Ally Derks (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands), and Jacques Laurent (producer, Belgium), and ARTE-observer Martin Pieper has nominated the following three films:
Position Among The Stars [trailer] by Leonard Retel Helmrich
Vivan las Antipodas [trailer] by Victor Kossakovsky
The nominated documentary films will now be made available to all 2,500 members of the European Film Academy, who will vote for the winner.
The 24th European Film Awards ceremony will take place in Berlin on December 3.
