YAA 2020 Goes to MY BROTHER CHASES DINOSAURS
YAA 2021 - 25 April
Young Juries Vote for their Favourite Film
In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-olds across Europe watch the three nominated films and vote for their favourite - the winner of the EFA Young Audience Award 2021!
Even though it's quite some time until 25 April 2021, that doesn’t mean that you cannot watch great films. Check out these quality young audience films of past YAA editions and where to watch them online.
What is the EFA Young Audience Award?
As an official category of the European Film Awards, the EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD presents three European films to 12-14-year-old audiences across Europe.
They watch the nominated films and act as a jury, voting for the winner.
Where can I watch the YAA films?
A lot of the YAA films are available online via VOD ...
With the support of Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union, we will bring the EFA Young Audience Award films out Europe-wide on Video-on-Demand (T-VoD) platforms, like iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft and Pantaflix, on the regional Balkan-platform Cinesquare, as well as on local platforms like Filmin!
Those who could not participate in the EFA Young Audience Award event will have the possibility to watch the nominated films online and this website will soon include the information where - for this year's nominees, but also for the films of the last three editions
What is the European Film Academy?
The European Film Academy (in short: EFA) was founded in 1988 under the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, its first president. Today it unites 3,800 filmmakers – directors, producers, actors and actresses, cinematographers, screenwriters, editors, production designers and other film professionals – from across Europe.
Every year, the EFA presents the European Film Awards which celebrate the best in European cinema.
Who Chose the Nominations?
It's a two-step procedure ...
An international committee consisting of EFA Board Member Vanessa Henneman (Netherlands) and experts Gonçalo Galvão Teles (director/Portugal), Jacek Rembis (screenwriter/Poland), Joanna Van Der Meer (BFI/UK), Nora Lakos (Children's Film Academy/Hungary, ECFA representative) pre-selected six films. A jury of 13-to-14-year-old former YAA participants Edoardo (Turin, Italy), Luna (Vienna, Austria), Raluca (Cluj, Romania), Rannveig (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Štefan (Izola, Slovenia) then watched these six films and chose the three nominations.
Who Votes for the Winner?
The young audiences participating in the Young Audience Film Day screenings act as a jury and vote for the winner right after the screenings. The winner is then announced on the same day and receives the European Film Awards statuette. Due to the Coronavirus crisis, all theatre jury screenings had to be cancelled and the YAA took place online.
These are the cities which were going to participate in 2020:
| AUSTRIA: St. Pölten & Vienna BELGIUM: Antwerp & Brussels BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Sarajevo BULGARIA: Sofia CROATIA: Zagreb CYPRUS: Nicosia CZECH REPUBLIC: Brno, Pilsen & Prague ESTONIA: Tallinn FRANCE: Bourg Saint Maurice – Les Arcs & Le Buisson de Cadouin GEORGIA: Tbilisi GERMANY: Berlin, Chemnitz & Erfurt GREECE: Athens & Pyrgos ICELAND: Reykjavik IRELAND: Dublin & Galway ITALY: Florence, Rome & Turin KOSOVO: Prizren |
LATVIA: Riga LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg MONTENEGRO:Nikšic & Podgorica NORTH MACEDONIA: Skopje & Tetovo NORWAY: Kristiansand POLAND: Gdynia, Poznan, Warsaw & Wroclaw PORTUGAL: Lisbon ROMANIA: Cluj-Napoca RUSSIA: Moscow & Novosibirsk SERBIA: Subotica SLOVAKIA: Bratislava SLOVENIA: Izola SPAIN: A Coruña, Barcelona, Madrid & Seville SWITZERLAND: Lausanne & Lucerne TURKEY: Istanbul UK: Lewes, London & Sheffield |
Where Does the Statuette Come From?
The awards statuette is a silver statuette of a woman in a star-covered dress. It comes from London where the British jeweller and designer Theo Fennell each year produces the statuettes for all winners. The statuette is 26 cm tall and weighs 2 kilograms.
Who Are The Partners?
The EFA Young Audience Award 2020 was realised with the following partners:
AUSTRIA: Austrian Film Academy
BELGIUM: Filem’On & the European Youth Film Festival
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Sarajevo Film Festival & Meeting Point cinema
BULGARIA: Sofia Art Fest
CROATIA: Zagreb Film Festival
CYPRUS: Cyprus Film Days For Children and Youth Film Festival
CZECH REPUBLIC: Krutón, z.s. & Int'l Film Festival for Children and Youth JUNIORFEST
ESTONIA: NGO Filmiõpe
FRANCE: Les Arcs Film Festival & Cinéma Lux le Buisson
GEORGIA: Taoba Int'l Youth Film Festival
GERMANY: European Film Academy (Berlin), Intl. Film Festival Schlingel (Chemnitz), German Children’s Media Foundation Golden Sparrow (Erfurt)
GREECE: Hellenic Film Academy, Athens Int'l Film Festival (ATHICFF), CineDok Kids & Olympia IFF for Children and Young People
ICELAND: Icelandic Film Centre
IRELAND: Irish Film Institute & Creative Europe Desk Ireland (Dublin), Junior Film Fleadh (Galway)
ITALY: Niels Stensen Cultural Foundation (Florence), Alice nella città (Rome), National Cinema Museum (Turin)
KOSOVO: DokuFest
LATVIA: National Film Centre of Latvia
LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg City Film Festival
MONTENEGRO: Podgorica Film Festival
NORTH MACEDONIA: Film Agency of the Republic of North Macedonia
NORWAY: Kristiansand Int'l Children's Film Festival
POLAND: International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! (Poznan), Podkarpackie Film Commission (Rzeszow), New Horizons Cinema (Wroclaw), Gdynia Film Centre (Gdynia), Akademia MDP (Warsaw)
PORTUGAL: Portuguese Academy of Film & ICA
ROMANIA: EducaTIFF & Romanian Film Promotion
RUSSIA: Pioner Cinema
SERBIA: Free Zone Festival
SLOVAKIA: Visegrad Film Forum
SLOVENIA: Otok
SPAIN: Academia Galega do Audiovisual (A Coruña), Filmoteca de Catalunya with the collaboration of Acadèmia del Cinema Català (Barcelona), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain (Madrid), Seville European Film Festival
SWITZERLAND: Festival du Cinéma Jeune Public & Zoomz
TURKEY: Yapimlab
UK: Depot Cinema (Lewes), British Film Institute (London) & Showroom (Sheffield)
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