Short Matters – The European Academy Short Film Competition 2010-2011
The International Izmir Short Film Festival, in cooperation with the European Film Academy, is happy to present, the films nominated for the European Film Academy Short Film Award. Fifteen short films were nominated In 2010. For 2011 European Film Academy Short Film awards, there will be a new list of fifteen nominees, all thirty nominees including the award winners will be screened at the festival. Yves Marmion, the Chairman of the Academy, writes:
"The EFA Short Film Initiative has long been an established item on the annual international short film agenda. It is organized in co-operation with fifteen partner festivals and we would like to use this opportunity to welcome the Locarno International Film Festival as the latest addition to the EFA short film cycle. At each of these festivals an independent international jury presents one of the European short films in competition with a nomination for the European Film Academy Short Film Award. Whether it is as immigrants, as policemen, or as little boys, or between daughters and their mothers' boyfriends: a lot of this year's short film nominations deal with our fears, aspirations and desires as human beings. Once again this selection serves as a fantastic showroom for the creative diversity of European cinema: there is animation, documentary and fiction, and a total of fourteen countries represented."