CPH:DOX 2014/ Eurimages Award

As someone close to the philosophy of Eurimages (the cultural support fund of the Council of Europe. Established in 1989, currently numbers 36 of 47 member states), that is not the EU, I am happy to bring this message from yesterday’s award ceremony:

For the second year running the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 was awarded for the best project pitched at CPH:FORUM – CPH:DOX’s international financing and co-production event.

The winner is ‘On Screen Off Record’ by Rami Farah (photo) and Lyana Saleh produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real. The project is a reflective film about the Syrian conflict in a media-conscious manner. It focuses on how we act and interact with media in current time, especially in a conflict that was over mediatized and little comprehended.

The jury has chosen ’On Screen Off Record’ for the following reasons:

”For the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, the organic co-production structure the Eurimages Co-production Development Award goes to ‘On Screen Off Record.’”

The film has been developed with support of IMS, Danida and Timbuktuprisen and it is produced by Final Cut for Real, in partnership with the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research at Birmingham City University.

Eurimages is a support fund for the co-production, distribution and exhibition of European cinematographic works, established by the Council of Europe in 1988. Since then, Eurimages has supported 1488 European co-productions for a total amount of approximately 451 million EUROS.

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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