Ceremony with Announcement of Winner
Over 2,000 young film-lovers from 32 countries across Europe registered for this year's EFA Young Audience Award as jury members. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the originally planned theatre screenings had to be cancelled. The young jury members instead watched the nominated films online on Festival Scope.
Organised by the different partners (see list below), various moderated video groups allowed the young jurors to discuss the films in their respective languages before casting their votes. Connecting them across borders, international video conferences guided by German moderator Sascha Quade put them into contact with their fellow jury members across the continent, adding another European layer to the experience.
Moderated again by former YAA jury member Ivana Noa, the 30-minute awards ceremony was streamed live on yaa.europeanfilmawards.eu where it remains available to watch.
Joining her online in a virtual studio at her home in Belgium were the following guests:
MY BROTHER CHASES DINOSAURS
director Stefano Cipani
actor Francesco Gheghi (Jack)
MY EXTRAORDINARY SUMMER WITH TESS
director Steven Wouterlood
actress Josephine Arendsen (Tess)
actor Sonny Coops Van Utteren (Sam)
ROCCA CHANGES THE WORLD
director Katja Benrath
actress Luna Maxeiner (Rocca)
As well as four members of the international jury and EFA Director Marion Döring.
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 (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)
