Fantastic news. Our film Winners has won the audience award at EIFF 2022, the 75th edition of this world class festival. Thank you to everyone who voted for the film.

On receiving the award, Hassan Nazer, Writer/Director of Winners said

“Winning the audience award at EIFF means everything to me. I have been working towards this since I decided to become a filmmaker. I make films for the audience and will continue to do so. It’s a great thing to be part of an ethnic minority living in Scotland where your vision is a mix of your background and new home. My aim is to always tie my cultures together and celebrate diversity through cinema. I’m very thankful our work has been recognised by Screen Scotland and EIFF.”

Onwards!

Source: AACTA

Nicholas Verso’s The Last Time I Saw Richard, which was developed by Edge City Film’s Paul Welsh for Screen Australia, has won Best Short Fiction Film at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA). Congratulations to Nicholas Verso, producer John Molloy, Mushroom Pictures and the rest of the crew involved.

Click on the link to see the list of winners for the AACTA Awards announced today. Winners of the remaining categories will be announced on Thursday.

Source: Screen Producers Australia

ECF produced drama Lore was named Feature Film Production of the Year at the Screen Producers Australia Awards.

The Screen Producers Australia Award, established in 2001, recognise the creation of outstanding screen content by Australian Businesses and provide a great opportunity to celebrate the industry.

Congratulations to Lore director Cate Shortland and the entire crew involved.

Source: Variety

BUSAN — Writer – director Kim Mordaunt won the best original screenplay prize at the Australian Writers Guild annual awards (AWGIEs) show yesterday with his film “The Rocket.”

Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee, writers of last year’s “Lore,” were winners of the best adapted screenplay.

The two films are both presented in languages other than English; “The Rocket,” (pictured) mostly in Lao, and “Lore” in German – and both were selected as Australia’s foreign-language Oscar contenders, in 2013 and 2012 respectively…

Source: The Australian

Director Cate Shortland. Picture: Alan Pryke

FEMALE directors dominated the major categories at the 2013 Australian Directors Guild Awards.

The Friday night ceremony in Sydney saw Cate Shortland win the best direction in a feature film prize for her period drama Lore, and Rachel Perkins won for direction of a TV drama series for Redfern Now.

Shortland, who acknowledged the plethora of female directors, won in a strong feature film category featuring her husband Tony Krawitz (Dead Europe), Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here) and Wayne Blair (The Sapphires)…

Source: Hollywood Reporter

The German Film Academy has announced the winners for this year’s Lola Awards, the local equivalent to the Oscars. Lore, the ECF produced drama from Australian director Cate Shortland, won the The Bronze Best Film. The 2013 Lola Awards was held at the Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin on Friday night.

Congratulations to Cate Shortland and the rest of the crew involved.

Click on the link to see the full list of winners.

Source: Titanic Film Festival

Australia’s 2013 Oscar Nominee, Cate Shortland’s LORE won the 20th Titanic International Filmfest’s Breaking Waves Award worth 8000 Euros, supported by the Hungarian National Film Fund. The jury, whose head was the world famous Jiři Menzel, awarded Mira Fornay’s MY DOG KILLER with a Special Award. TheAudience’s Award was given to the Czech director, Petr Nikolaev for his film,LIDICE.

Cate Shortland’s Australian drama about facing the past won 20th Titanic International Filmfest’s Breaking Waves Award award worth 8000 Euros supported by the Hungarian National Film Fund. Saskia Rosenthal gave an amazing performance, playing a young girl, whose faith collapses, when she comes to know a secret about her parents after World War II. The film’s background is a deeply confused country. “LORE is a professionaly created, amibitious, legitimate and intimate film” said member of the jury, Irish producer Morgan Bushe…

Source: AACTA

The luminous young German actress, Saskia Rosendahl, received the AACTA Award for Best Young Actor for her lead performance in the stunning German language film Lore, directed by Cate Shortland. Just 17 years old at the time of filming, this was Rosendahl’s first feature film role…

Source: Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney

A movie that explores a German teenager forced to rethink her beliefs and view of the world as the German Reich collapses around her has been named Film of the Year by the Australian Catholic Film Office (ACFO).

“The jury was impressed by the themes this beautifully-made film holds together: a survival trek, loss of innocence and discernment,” says Father Richard Leonard SJ, Director of the ACFO and Chair of the jury that chose Lore as the best film of 2012…