2.11.2016
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Awards 2016 go to: Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel for “Mister Universo" and to Katharina Copony for “Moghen Paris – und sie ziehen mit”
• The ExtraVALUE Film Award was awarded for the sixth time at the Viennale
• Erste Bank has been the main sponsor of the Viennale since 2004.
The ExtraVALUE Film Award will be presented this evening at the Viennale Closing Gala which will be held at the Gartenbaukino. An independent jury selected the winners from all current Austrian film productions shown at the Viennale 2016. The award includes a stay in NYC covering the accommodation costs, travel costs and a grant as well as a presentation of the works of the winners. Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Award is a cooperative project of the Viennale, Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.
The jury’s reasons
The members of the jury reached a unanimous decision for two film productions. On the recommendation of the jury, the Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Award 2016 will be conferred for two winning films with a month’s stay in New York for their directors.
The first film production selected for the award by the jury is a fiction film. A charming, empathetic and also optimistic film with a convincing story and likable and authentic protagonists; a story like life itself. A young man uses the disappearance of his talisman to leave his everyday life behind him. He travels across Italy on a search of the former Mister Universe to get back his lucky charm. An extraordinary search for clues takes us on a subtle discovery tour with magical moments.
The ExtraVALUE Film Award 2016 goes to Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel for “Mister Universo".
The second production selected for the award by the jury is a documentary film. A movie that takes us on a gripping trip that starts from an ancient cork oak tree and carefully leads us to a carnival parade in a mountain village in Sardinia. It is the magical past translated into film. The magical element becomes apparent in the social custom of the carnival whose movement transforms it into a collective delirium. It is alive and you become part of an irresistible transformation, which is not written in memory, but is nonetheless part of human action.
The ExtraVALUE Film Award Grant 2016 goes to Katharina Copony for “Moghen Paris – und sie ziehen mit”
Jury members
Silvia Bohrn, culture manager
Boris Manner, curator
Franz Schwartz, former, long-year head of Stadtkino Wien
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Awards since 2011
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Award winner 2015: Jakob Brossmann for “Lampedusa im Winter”
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Short Film Winner 2015: Claudia Larcher for her short film “Self”
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Award winner 2014: Sudabeh Mortezai, “Macondo”
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Short Film Winner 2014: Gerhard Treml and Leo Calice for “Eden's Edge”
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Award winner 2013: Gustav Deutsch, Shirley “Visions of Reality”
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Award winner 2013: Juri Rechinsky for “Sickfuckpeople”
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Award winner 2012 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel for “Glanz des Tages”.
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Short Film winner 2012: Kurdwin Ayub
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Film Award winner 2011: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, „Der Prozess”
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Short Film winner 2011: Johann Lurf and Kurdwin Ayub
The ExtraVALUE Sponsoring Programme of Erste Bank
Sponsoring as we understand it is the voluntary promotion and support of institutions, initiatives and projects in the social, cultural and education areas.
The ExtraVALUE Sponsoring Programme is our commitment to social responsibility and, moreover to values that our enterprise deems worthy of support and promotion.
The ExtraVALUE Sponsoring Programme includes the ExtraVALUE Film Award, the ExtraVALUE Design Award, ExtraVALUE Art Award and the Erste Bank Composition Award.
More on the projects at: www.sponsoring.erstebank.at