30-11-2020

FESTIVALS: Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Hands Out Ten Awards

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    Post Production Award Winner - Kalev by Ove Musting Post Production Award Winner - Kalev by Ove Musting photo: Allfilm

    TALLINN: Ten projects received awards at the Industry @ Tallinn & Baltic Event ceremony held on 26 November 2020. More than 850 guests attended the week of online presentations, with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia and Croatia taking home seven prizes.

    The following awards were announced:  

    MIDPOINT TV Launch HBO Europe Award (5,000 USD):
    Afterparty (Croatia)
    Writer: Dora Sustic
    Producer: Maja Pek-Bruenjes

    SCRIPT POOL TALLINN 2020 (5,000 EUR):

    Script Pool Film Award:
    20,000 Species of Bees (Spain)
    Screenwriter Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
    Production company: Gariza Films and Sirimiri Films. Spain

    Script Pool TV Award:
    When You Fall (North Macedonia)
    Scriptwriter: Biljana Crvenkovska 
    Production company: OXO Production

    WORKS IN PROGRESS AWARDS:

    Post Production Award (5,000 EUR):

    Kalev (Estonia)
    Director Ove Musting
    Producers: Pille Rünk, Maria Avdjushko 
    Production companies: Allfilm, Ugri Film

    Nuuccha (Russia)
    Director: Vladimir Munkuev 
    Producers: Aleksandr Plotnikov, Boris Khlebnikov, Valeriy Fedorovich, Evgeniy Nikishov, Albert Ryabyshev, Andrei Ushatskiy 
    Production companies: Look Film, The Place of Power, R-Media, Russia 

    The Baltic Event Works in Progress Award (1,500 EUR):

    I Am Fine, Thanks (Lithuania)
    Director: Ernestas Jankauskas 
    Producers: Gabija Siurbytė, Greta Akcijonaitė 
    Production company: Dansu films 

    Neon Spring (Latvia)
    Director: Matīss Kaža 
    Producers: Dace Siatkovska, Matīss Kaža 
    Production company: Deep Sea Studios  

    Just Film Works in Progress Award (1,000 EUR):
    The Sleeping Beast (Estonia, Latvia)
    Director: Jaak Kilmi 
    Producers: Evelin Penttilä 
    Co-producer: Roberts Vinovskis 
    Production companies: Stellar Film (Estonia), Locomotive (Latvia)

    BALTIC EVENT CO-PRODUCTION MARKET AWARDS:

    Eurimages Co-Production Development Award (20,000 EUR)
    Electric Sleep (Germany)
    Director/writer: Zeynep Dadak
    Producer: Titus Kreyenberg
    Production company: unafilm, Germany

    Screen International Best Pitch Award:
    Tasty (Lithuania)
    Director/Writer: Egle Vertelyte
    Produced by Lukas Trimonis 
    Production Company: InScript

    Marché du Film Producers’ Network Award 2021:
    Laura McNicholas, 925 Productions, Ireland and Marina Naumova, Garpastum Pictures, Russia