The European Commission has invested almost €2million through the Creative Europe MEDIA programme to support the development and distribution of 22 different films, which took part in the different sections of the prestigious 64th San Sebastian Festival between 16 and 24 September. 6 out of the 22 MEDIA funded films were competing in the official selection, where The Giant (Jätten) by Johannes Nyholm (SE, DK) was awarded with the Special Jury Prize.
Other 7 EU MEDIA supported movies were also awarded this weekend at other official sections of the festival. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach - UK, FR, BE) and My Life as a Courgette (Ma vie de courgette) (Claude Barras - FR, CH) won ex-aequo the San Sebastian Audience Award, and Oscuro animal (Felipe Guerrero- Colombia, Argentina, NE, DE, GR) received the Special Cooperation Award. In the Parallel Awards, The Odyssey (L’Odyssée) (Jérôme Salle - FR, BE) received the Greenpeace Lurra Award, Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello - FR, DE, BE) received the Signis Award and 150 milligrams (La fille de Brest) (Emmanuelle Bercot- FR) received the Solidarity Award.
During the San Sebastian Film Festival, the latest meeting of the European Film Forum took place, looking into audience in the digital era. Industry stakeholders explored practical cases of audience participation, data analysis and social media monitoring as essential tools in digital conversation.
In total, 22 MEDIA-supported films were screened during the San Sebastian Film Festival in the following sections:
Official selection
- 150 milligrams (La Fille de Brest), by Emmanuelle Bercot, France;
- Jesús, by Fernando Guzzoni, France/ Chile/ Germany/ Greece;
- The Giant (Jätten), by Johannes Nyholm, Sweden / Denmark;
- The Odyssey (L’Odyssée), by Jérôme Salle, France/ Belgium;
- Nocturama, by Bertrand Bonello, France/Germany/ Belgium;
- Orphan (Orpheline), by Arnaud des Pallières, France
New Directors
- Le ciel flamand, by Peter Monsaert, Belgium
Pearls
- Florence Foster Jenkins, by Stephen Frears, United Kingdom;
- Frantz, by François Ozon, France;
- Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare), by Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/ France;
- I, Daniel Blake, by Ken Loach, UK/ France;
- After love (L' économie du couple), by Joachim Lafosse, France/ Belgium;
- Things to Come (L'avenir), by Mia Hansen-Løve, France;
- The Red Turtle (La tortue rouge), by Michael Dudok De Wit, France/Belgium;
- My Life as a Courgette (Ma vie de courgette), by Claude Barras, Switzerland/ France;
- Sierra Nevada (Sieranevada), by Cristi Puiu, Romania;
- Toni Erdmann, by Maren Ade, Germany/ Austria
Zabaltegi – Tabakalera
- Where I Grow Old (A cidade onde envelheço), by Marilia Rocha, Brazil/ Portugal;
- A Quiet Passion, by Terence Davies, UK/ Belgium;
- Louise by the Shore (Louise en hiver), by Jean-François Laguionie, France/ Canada;
- Oscuro animal, by Felipe Guerrero, Colombia/ Argentina/ Netherlands/ Germany/ Greece;
- Uncle Howard, by Aaron Brookner, United Kingdom
Thematic Retrospective
Other 11 MEDIA funded films were screened at the Thematic Retrospective section which this year had the title “The act of killing. Cinema and global violence”
- Bloody Sunday, by Paul Greengrass, UK/ Ireland
- S-21, La machine de mort Khmère rouge / S-21, The Khmer Rouge Death Machine, by Rithy Panh, Cambodia/ France
- Darwin’s Nightmare, by Hubert Sauper, Austria/ Belgium/ France/ Germany
- Omagh, by Pete Travis, Ireland/ UK
- Paradise Now, by Hany Abu-Assad, Netherlands/ Israel/ Germany/ France/ Palestine;
- Hunger, by Steve McQueen, UK/ Ireland;
- Armadillo, by Janus Metz Pedersen, Denmark;
- Cirkus Columbia, by Danis Tanović, Bosnia and Herzegovina/ France/ Belgium/ UK/ Germany/ Slovenia;
- The Act of Killing, by Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/ Norway/ UK;
- Maidan, by Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine/ Netherlands;
- The Look of Silence, by Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/ Indonesia/ Norway/ Finland/ USA/ UK/ Israel/ France/ Germany/ Netherlands
European Film Forum
MEDIA continues its stakeholder dialogue as part of the European Film Forum started in 2015. This time, the focus was on the importance of the audience in the digital era, a topic discussed during the second edition of "Audiences in motion: listening to the User".
This event was organised by the San Sebastian Festival and Creative Europe MEDIA, with the collaboration of Donostia/ San Sebastian European Capital of Culture 2016. In the digital era, the audience plays a crucial role in the production, distribution and exhibition of audiovisual content. Listening to them and connecting to new generations of users, the so-called millennials and digital natives, represents an enormous opportunity for the industry.
These issues were addressed through two panels (Audience Participation and Distribution- Understanding European Audiences), where practical cases of audience participation were presented, looking at data analysis and social media monitoring as essential tools in digital conversation.
Background
This year the MEDIA Programme is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Since its creation in 1991, the EU's support programme for the European audiovisual industry has helped train more than 20,000 producers, directors and screenwriters, and enabled them to adapt to new technologies. Each year, around 2.000 European films, television series and other projects receive MEDIA funding that supports their development and distribution.
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