UK wins two of three Canon Tiger Awards at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr); Serbia-Germany short submitted to EFAs.
Iifr’s Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films has named its three Canon Tiger Award winners as: Ben Rivers’ Things (UK); Safia Benhaim’s La Fievre (France); and Ben Russell’s Greetings to the Ancestors (UK).
Each director wins €3,000 and a Canon digital camera.
Rivers previously won a Short Tiger in 2008 with Ah!, Liberty.
Dane Komljen’s Our Body, a Serbia-Germany production, is Iffr’s nomination for the European Film Awards (EFAs) short film competition.
The short film jury comprised Beatrice Gibson, Xander Karskens and Koyo Yamashita.
The jury said of its winners:
Things
“We chose this film, for its exquisite crafting and ambitious approach to the personal and the diarystic. For its toilet-humour, and the way in which the filmmaker successfully collapses style and rhythm.”
La Fievre
“For its poetic and human use of images and sounds...
Iifr’s Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films has named its three Canon Tiger Award winners as: Ben Rivers’ Things (UK); Safia Benhaim’s La Fievre (France); and Ben Russell’s Greetings to the Ancestors (UK).
Each director wins €3,000 and a Canon digital camera.
Rivers previously won a Short Tiger in 2008 with Ah!, Liberty.
Dane Komljen’s Our Body, a Serbia-Germany production, is Iffr’s nomination for the European Film Awards (EFAs) short film competition.
The short film jury comprised Beatrice Gibson, Xander Karskens and Koyo Yamashita.
The jury said of its winners:
Things
“We chose this film, for its exquisite crafting and ambitious approach to the personal and the diarystic. For its toilet-humour, and the way in which the filmmaker successfully collapses style and rhythm.”
La Fievre
“For its poetic and human use of images and sounds...
- 1/26/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has completed the selection for its tenth Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.Scroll down for full line-up
The competition in the shorts category will comprise a mix of 20 short fiction films, experimental films and documentaries from around the world.
Nominated filmmakers include director and 2009 Hivos Tiger Award nominee Ben Russell, who will also present a lecture at the Festival, and 2008 Tiger Award for Short Film winner Ben Rivers, as well as new filmmakers from countries including Vietnam, Egypt, Norway, Singapore, Serbia and Austria.
This competition includes ten world premieres, of which four are from the Netherlands.
The jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films consists of British artist, filmmaker and two-time winner of this award Beatrice Gibson; Dutch programmer and curator Xander Karskens; and artistic director of Image Forum Festival Koyo Yamashita from Japan.
Each of the three equal Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films comes with €3,000 ($3,600) plus a professional...
The competition in the shorts category will comprise a mix of 20 short fiction films, experimental films and documentaries from around the world.
Nominated filmmakers include director and 2009 Hivos Tiger Award nominee Ben Russell, who will also present a lecture at the Festival, and 2008 Tiger Award for Short Film winner Ben Rivers, as well as new filmmakers from countries including Vietnam, Egypt, Norway, Singapore, Serbia and Austria.
This competition includes ten world premieres, of which four are from the Netherlands.
The jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films consists of British artist, filmmaker and two-time winner of this award Beatrice Gibson; Dutch programmer and curator Xander Karskens; and artistic director of Image Forum Festival Koyo Yamashita from Japan.
Each of the three equal Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films comes with €3,000 ($3,600) plus a professional...
- 1/2/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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