About the Film Festival:
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4th Edition
> Release Date: 8th February 2019
> Notification Date: 20th February 2020
> AWARDS Ceremony: 28th March 2020
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VENUE
LIVE SCREENING: Pathé Tuschinski
Address: Reguliersbreestraat 26-34, 1017 CN Amsterdam, Netherlands -
Film Festival
European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA) is a monthly film competition for filmmakers worldwide. We support new and student film-makers, who are just beginning their careers with a supportive and enthusiastic audience for their creative efforts and giving them access to film industry professionals who can offer guidance and other forms of career assistance.
ECA film industry specialists announce semi-finalists, finalists and winners each month. Each year we select ONE Best Of The Best (from all categories) and the prize is the Golden Eagle Trophy.
We only award the best independent filmmakers after a comprehensive evaluation process. Our judges evaluate the quality of filmmaking, creativity, and storytelling ability. Our mission is to promote films, and be another step up in the filmmakers’ careers.
Winners receive laurels & certificates.
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“In a Heartbeat”
Director: Esteban Bravo and Beth David
Academy Award
Shortlisted, 2017
European Cinematography AWARDS
WINNER - Best Animation Short, March 2017
Student Academy Awards
WINNER - Best Animated Short, 2017
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Great festival!! Thank you for showcasing my film.
Great festival. Recommend everybody to participate !
The Awards:
Certificates
Every Winner of the category will receive a personalized certificate with an online verification.
Festival Laurels
We award the best independent filmmakers after a comprehensive evaluation process. The course is divided into several stages:
> Semi-Finalsit
> Finalist
> Winner of the Category
> Best Film of the Month (Official Selection)
> Best Film of the Year
Statuettes
Cinematography AWARDS officially called the “Golden Eagle” is an award in the form of a statuette for outstanding achievements in the field of cinematography.
The trophy is handed during the award ceremony of the film festival within the year:
– Director – The Best Film Of The Year
– Cinematographer – The Best Cinematographer Of The Year
BEST SCREENPLAY PRIZE:
Three Best Screenplays of the Year will receive an InkTip Script Listing to promote themselves and their scripts to InkTip’s entire network of producers, managers, and agents.
Companies who are InkTip members include: ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, 20th Century Fox, and many more.
Producers have made more than 375 films from scripts and writers found through InkTip.
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Submission Rules and Terms of Agreement:
The film festival works under the Cinematography Awards Foundation, an association of film festivals which highlight excellence in cinematography. It is legally established and is managed by film industry professionals.
A body supervising the foundation: The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
SUBMISSIONS
- Monthly submissions for the 4th edition of European Cinematography Awards (ECA) is open to short films, feature films and videos of any genre.
- All films must be presented in their original language with English subtitle.
- Films must have been completed after 1 January 2015. Premiere status is not required.
- Films submitted for consideration in the previous ECA editions are eligible for re-submission only if there are significant rework done to the films.
- Short film entries must not exceed a running time of 30 minutes.
- Student films and videos must present proper documentations from their academic institution, example: academic ID of the director/producer or a letter of recommendation from an academic adviser or institution. Any films submitted as student film without proper identification will be disqualified in the category.
- Student films must be submitted no later than one year after graduation.
- All submitted films and/or videos must pay the necessary entry fee. Student entries are eligible for discounted fees.
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FAQs
How long is a short/feature film?
Films under 30 minutes are considered short films & over are features.
How are the films selected for the festival?
Films submitted to the festival are reviewed by our selection team, which evaluates each film, looking for the best thematic and well-produced films.
When you accept submissions?
We are accepting submissions year round with monthly deadlines. Please read our submission guidelines carefully before submitting.
THE YOUNG SHUTTERBUGS PROJECT
This campaign from Cinematography Awards Foundation aims to give youth a chance
to make the first step in learning the basics of taking pictures.
Build with our Foundation a Brighter Future
JULY 2019 Winners
4th Edition of the European Cinematography AWARDS
Best Film of the Month
TITLE: AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY (United States)
DIRECTOR: ARTHUR BALDER
PRODUCER: ARTHUR BALDER
About the film:
On our Instagram or Facebook pages, we show only the best part of ourselves, the “beautiful” part of our lives. We hide in this fake. We are so immersed in the process of creating our ideal virtual personality that we forget about real life. We forget the simple truth that beauty is inside.
The film subtilely focuses on a social issue that has global reach: how we perceive and judge ourselves and the others in a world dominated by social media.
American Mirror – Intimations of Immortality’ was most awarded film at its premiere on October 21, 2018, at the 5th DOC LA Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival, garnering Best Innovative Film, Best Composer, Best Cinematography and Parajanov-Vartanov Award. A jury presided over by two-time Academy award-winner Paul Haggis for Fabrique Du Cinema Awards (presented by Fabrique Du Cinema, the leading film magazine of Italy, bestowed on the film the Best International Documentary award in Rome, December 15th, 2018. Other accolades include Best Cinematography and Best Innovative Film at 13th Pomegranate Film Festival (Toronto, November 2018.) The film is a Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2019 Official Selection, among other twenty official selections around the world in 2020.
The Best Film of the Month has the Official Selection to Golden Eagles AWARDS and guaranteed screening in the cinema.The rest films for the live screening jury will select from all Winners during a year. We will present the full list of selected films until the Notification Date.
AWARDS:
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM – Artur Balder
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – Mark Petrie & Andrew Prahlow
BEST LEAD ACTING – Susan Sarandon
Director Biography:
Arthur Balder has been honored with two consecutive Best Documentary of the Year awards by the Association of Latin Entertainment Critics of New York for his previous works as a filmmaker (2015 and 2016), his films have won the Fabrique Du Cinema Award 2018 Best International Documentary and the Parajanov-Vartanov Award 2018, as well as the Lady Of the Victory of the Critics Circle of Mexico (2015) as a further Latin-American recognition, along with that of the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors of New York (HOLA Awards 2016) as Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In his documentary films he has sought from the set-out to defy the boundaries between documentary and fiction.
His films have garnered nominations and / or official selections at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, DOC LA, Carthage Film Festival (Oscar-qualifying), Black Nights Film Festival of Tallinn (FIAPF competitive feature length), Parajanov-Vartanov Institute of Los Angeles, Gijon International Film Festival (Spain, FIAPF competitive), Golden Door International Film Festival (Jersey City), and have screened at such iconic venues as Egyptian Theater, American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, and the main theatres of the MoMA.
All Winners of the Categories – JULY:
The best films. Congratulations to All Filmmakers !!!
AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY
(United States)
3 AWARDS
ARTHUR BALDER
The 9ª
(Spain)
BEST SHORT FILM
Daniel H. Torrado
Yazidi
(Greece)
2 AWARDS
Hektor Sakaloglou
Filum
(Canada)
3 AWARDS
Claudia Hernandez Barragan
Philophobia
(United Kingdom)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Guy Davies
Buried Seeds
(United States)
2 AWARDS
Andrei Severny
Letter H
(Italy)
BEST EUROPE FILM
Dario Germani
BETWEEN PAIN AND AMEN
(Romania)
BEST FEATURE FILM
Toma Enache
Ideal Homeland
(China)
BEST DIRECTOR
Bo Wei
How Countries Fight Their Wars
(Netherlands)
BEST ANIMATION FILM
Thomas Loopstra, Maurice Baltissen
Avicii “Heaven”
(Sweden)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Levan Tsikurishvili
FOLLOW THE ARROW
(France)
BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Marc Saez
Synecdoche Montauk – Wherever You Are
(Russia)
BEST SHORT FILM CINEMATOGRAPHY
Oleg Trofim
5bucks. Case of Hamster
(Ukraine)
BEST FEATURE FILM CINEMATOGRAPHY
Kostyantyn Ponomaryov
Afrika is a Country
(South Africa)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Frances Kroon
Your Smile
(China)
BEST STUDENT CINEMATOGRAPHY
Haoxiang Liu
THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME
(France)
BEST DRAMA FILM
Mark Saes
Lullaby
(Spain)
BEST EUROPE CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Villarroya
Enclosure
(United States)
BEST LGBT FILM
TINGTING LI
Thousand Yesterdays
(United Kingdom)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Robbie Bryant
Trauma
(Switzerland)
BEST SOUND
Valentin Dupanloup
Olympic Dream
(Malaysia)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Don Hoe
The Man Who Wanted To Fly
(Ireland)
BEST AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Frank Shouldice
Conciliate
(United States)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTING
Patrick Ruegsegger
FORMATION
(Austria)
BEST FILM POSTER
Markus Bernsteiner
Golden Eagles 2019
Pathé Tuschinski Amsterdam
THE CHASE by Lawrence Ribeiro
Winner - Best Action Film
SUND: D. Chris Smith
Known For: “Skyscraper” “The Revenant ” John Wick: Chapter 2″
Edit: Richard Pearson
Known For: “United 93” “Men in Black II” “007 Quantum of Solace”
POST: Company 3
Known For: “Transformers” “XXX” “Jack Reacher”
Golden Eagles 2019
Pathé Tuschinski Amsterdam
Golden Eagles
Films selected to the Live Screening - Amsterdam 2020
Best Film of the Month has the Official Selection to Golden Eagles AWARDS and guaranteed screening in the cinema.
The rest of the films for the live screening will be selected by the jury from all the category winners within the year. We will present the full list of selected winners on a date to be announced later.
Submit Your Film Now:
This month Student & Gold Members Discount.
VENUE – The Next Live Screening
Pathé Tuschinski | Amsterdam | Netherlands
European Cinematography AWARDS
DATE:
28th March, 2020
ADDRESS:
Pathé Tuschinski, Reguliersbreestraat 26-34, 1017 CN Amsterdam, Netherlands
TIME:
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We have submissions from nearly 100 Countries
and we are waiting to watch Your Films.
We have a category for Your Film:
MAIN CATEGORIES
You have to submit your film to one of them:
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Main Category)
BEST STUDENT CINEMATOGRAPHY (Main Category)
BEST DOCUMENTARY CINEMATOGRAPHY (Main Category)
BEST ANIMATION CINEMATOGRAPHY (Main Category)
BEST AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (Main Category)
BEST SHORT FILM (Main Category)
BEST FEATURE FILM (Main Category)
BEST STUDENT FILM (Main Category)
BEST ANIMATION FILM (Main Category)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM (Main Category)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM (Main Category)
BEST EUROPE FILM (Main Category)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO (Main Category)
BEST NATURE/TRAVEL FILM (Main Category)
BEST SCREENPLAY (Main Category)
ADDITIONAL FEE CATEGORIES
You can submit your film to many categories:
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (Additional Fee Category)
BEST DIRECTOR (Additional Fee Category)
BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR (Additional Fee Category)
BEST LGBT FILM (Additional Fee Category)
BEST COMMERCIAL (Additional Fee Category)
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN (Additional Fee Category)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS (Additional Fee Category)
BEST EDITING (Additional Fee Category)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN (Additional Fee Category)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Additional Fee Category)
BEST SOUND (Additional Fee Category)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (Additional Fee Category)
BEST SONG (Additional Fee Category)
BEST LEAD ACTING (Additional Fee Category)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTING (Additional Fee Category)
BEST FILM POSTER (Additional Fee Category)
Marcel Iures – Octav (2017)
WINNER - Best Actor
Last Festival News
We are starting the 4th Edition of European Cinematography AWARDS.
Did you make a film?
Give Your Dreams a Chance. It Could Be YOU. Submit your film to the festival.
This month Student & Gold Members Discount
Every month, we are proud of the festival Winners:
Selena Lee
Winner Best Actress
Xander Turian
Winner Best Horror
Ziryab Ben Brahem
Best St. Cinematographer - ``The Negative`` is the only film shot and finished in the Vistavision format since 1960's.
This is a fantastic European Film Festival where talent truly matters. I am indeed grateful and proud that my feature film “Julia 17” is a semi-finalist at this significant film festival. I am a young filmmaker and the honest appreciation for my work is what makes me very happy and it gives me the best motivation to continue working in films and to return with new projects. Many thanks to the Jury and the Festival members. This is the unforgettable beginning of my career and I am so happy that you're a part of. Wishing you “European Cinematography Awards Film Festival “ always lots of great recognition around the world. Sincerely yours, Andreea Boyer
Thank You Andreea for warm words about our work. We are pretty happy that we can give you the motivation to continue work in films. Good Luck!
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