This year's Eurimages Co-Production Award, an award acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in fostering international exchange, goes to two fellow producers: Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas. The award will be presented during the European Film Awards ceremony on Saturday, 15 December, in Seville.

Konstantinos Kontovrakis was a film critic and journalist while collaborating with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, for which he worked for ten years mainly as a programmer. In 2010, he turned to production as an executive for the film Wasted Youth by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel. Konstantinos was an EFP's Producer on the Move for Greece in 2014 and he is the national representative of EAVE in Greece.

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Giorgos Karnavas joined Stefi Productions in 1998 and was the General Manager and Head of Events from 2007 to September 2012, and he founded and produced the Synch Festival (2006 Best European Electronic Music Festival). He entered film production in 2010 and is a member of ACE and the European and Greek Film Academies. He was an EFP's Producer on the Move in 2013.

Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas joined forces in order to establish the Athens-based production company Heretic. Heretic is focusing on quality-driven films and international co-productions, looking for projects with an international perspective and ensuring their position in the world-wide market from development till completion. The company produced the Eurimages-supported films Son of Sofia [+lee también:
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entrevista: Elina Psykou
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entrevista: Etienne Kallos
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entrevista: Ralitza Petrova
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entrevista: Victoria Carmen Sonne
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ficha de la película] (Special Jury Award, Rotterdam IFF).