12/17/2009
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Winners Go Short 2010

Go Short-ambassador Isolda Hallensleben was the host of the Award Show and she did it in a funny and vigorous way. A video showed a nice overview of the past days of the festival. The members of the jury were presented and then it was time to start handing over the Awards.

An international festival, with English as official language, with some switches to Dutch. For instance, when Joost van Ginkel received his Award for Best Dutch Short Film. After his word of thanks, the screen showed an interview with his young main actor Koen. The NPS is the sponsor for four Awards: fiction, documentary, animation, the labo. The winning directors from Animation (Igor Imhoff) and Documentary (Carol Salter) were not there, but their words of thanks were recorded and played back. Carol told us she was going to use the prize money to pay for the education for one of the boys from her documentary about Uganda. Martijn Veldhoen (RE-constructions) received his award for The Labo and said that it was special to stand there with an award, considering that three hours ago he was lying on his couch with a hangover from his birthday.

One of the awards was presented by Go Short’s special guest: Simon Ellis. He said that is was very special to show so many of his movies altogether during his own screening, it felt a bit like he was standing naked in front of the viewers. At the award show his short Freya was screened. Singer-songwriter Arthur Adam performed with two of his songs. Andreas Koefoed was seen on a video message that he made himself from his resort earlier that day, he won the Dioraphte stimulation price for best European short student film.

Jacco’s Film was the winner of the Audience Award. Director Daan Bakker received his award thankfully and –with one eye on the Omroep Gelderland-camera- he thanked his parents who live in the province Gelderland.

 

Winners Go Short 2010:

Winner NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: Fiction €1.000,-

Seeds Of The Fall (Patrik Eklund, Sweden, 2009)

“A surprisingly deadpan well structured comedy that deals with human shortcomings.”

Winner NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: Documentary €1.000,-

Unearthing the Pen (Carol Salter, United Kingdom, 2009)
“Through the eyes of a young man an unknown story is told that western hegemony is once again imposing it’s own culture.”

Winner NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: Animation €1.000,-

Percorso #008 – 0209 (Igor Imhoff, Italy, 2009)
“A very rich vivid dreamscape.”

Winner NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: The Labo €1.000,-

RE-Constructions  (Martijn Veldhoen, the Netherlands, 2009)
“A poetic loop with a certain sense of black humor.”

Winner Go Short Award for Best Dutch Short Film €500,-

Kiss (Joost van Ginkel, the Netherlands, 2009)
“A theme of war told in a stylized and highly intimate setting.”

Winner Dioraphte Encouragement Award for Best short Student film. €5.000,-

Albert’s Winter (Andreas Koefoed, Denmark, 2009)

Winner Omroep Gelderland/Go Short Audience Award €750,-

Jacco's Film (Daan Bakker, The Netherlands, 2009)

Winner Online Competition

Celluloïd Gangster (Hugo Pivois, fiction, France)

The other nominees and the complete jury report can be found on www.goshort.nl.

Nominations Go Short Awards announced

 

On Friday night 19 March, the nominees for the Go Short Awards were made public in De Grote Broek in Nijmegen. The jury of Go Short and the jury for the student competition Breaking Shorts announced which films are eligible for the NPS/Go Short Awards in the  four categories, the Go Short Award for Best Dutch short film and the Dioraphte Encouragement Award for the best short European student film. The interim score  for the Omroep Gelderland/Go Short Audience Award was also announced. On Saturday night 20 March, the winners will be revealed during a festive Award Night in arthouse LUX, main location of the festival.

Nominees in the category for best European short fiction film:

 

Believe (Paul Wright, United Kingdom, 2009)

Jade (Daniel Elliott, United Kingdom, 2009)

Seeds Of The Fall (Patrik Eklund, Sweden, 2009)

 

Nominees in the category for best European short documentary:

 

Anders & Harri (Åsa Blanck & Johan Palmgren, Sweden, 2008)

Photograph of Jesus (Laurie Hill, United Kingdom, 2008)

Unearthing the Pen (Carol Salter, United Kingdom, 2009)

Nominees in the category for best European short animation:

The Man Who slept (Sedan Inès, France, 2009)
Percorso #008 – 0209 (Igor Imhoff, Italy, 2009)
Madagascar, a Journey Diary (Bastien Dubois, France, 2009)

Nominees in the category for best European short experimental film:

Forever For a While (Sara Rajaei, the Netherlands, 2009)
RE-constructions (Martijn Veldhoen, the Netherlands, 2009)
Archaic Smile (Kurt D’Haeseleer, Belgium, 2008)

Nominees in the category for best Dutch short film:

Red-End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society (Robin Noorda & Bethany de Forest, the Netherlands, 2009)
Kiss (Joost van Ginkel, the Netherlands, 2009)
Strike (Jonas Klinkenbijl, the Netherlands, 2009)

Nominees in the category for best European short student film:

Ghost of Icarus (Amos Mulder, the Netherlands, 2009)
Jacco’s Film (Daan Bakker, the Netherlands, 2009)
Albert’s Winter (Andreas Koefoed, Denmark, 2009)

Interim score / Top 5 Audience Award:

 

1.     Jacco’s Film (Daan Bakker, the Netherlands, 2009)

2.     Nyarma (Edgar Bartnev, Russia, 2009)

3.     Lost and found (Philip Hunt, UK, 2008)

4.     Mum (Adelheid Roosen, The Netherlands, 2009)

5.     The Man in the Blue Gordini/ L' Homme à la Gordini (Jean-Christophe Lie, France, 2009)

 

The best of Go Short 2010
Go Short – International short film festival Nijmegen lasts until Sunday evening 21 March. On the last day of the festival much is to be seen in arthouse LUX: best of programs, thematic blocks and films by special guest Simon Ellis. Together with Dutch public broadcaster NPS, Go Short also hosts an NPS afternoon.

 

Go Short Online Competition: VOTE NOW!

Go Short has started, so let's go online! The festival will officially kick-off on Wednesday 17 Mach, but you can already view 20 short films at www.goshort.nl/online. The selection of films originate form varying couontries including the Netherlands, Italy, Great Britain, France, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. The shortes film in the competition only lasts 1 minutes and 10 seconds, the longest 10 minutes, which is also the maximum duration to compete in the online program of Go Short. You can vote till Sunday 21 March. The winner will be announced on the festival website on Sunday night.

Films in the online competition: The Magical Porno Theater, Jovanna Rebecca Tosello, animation, The Netherlands, 2', Unrepeated / Ondoorbroken, Maarten J. Boer, fiction, The Netherlands, 4'28", dead SEEquences, Fabio Scacchioli, experimental, Italy, 4'10”, I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life With You / Quiero Estar el Resto de mi Vida Contigo, Manuela Moreno, fiction, Spain, 2'30", All In, Jeffry van Mechelen, fiction, The Netherlands, 9'01”, Celluloïd Gangster, Hugo Pivois, fiction, France, 7', Terminal Communication, Michael Fortune, documentary, Ireland, 3', Blind, Mike Ritchie, fiction, United Kingdom, 2'05", Post-it Love, Si & Ad, fiction, United Kingdom, 3'16", Inconceivable, Tom Williams, fiction, United Kingdom, 9’, Kroak – Fishing Trip / Kroak – Partie de Pêche, Julie Rembauville & Nicolas Bianco, animation, France, 3', Fish, Åsa Johannisson, experimental, Sweden, 10', Everyday People, Enda Hughes, documentary, United Kingdom, 4’40”, TXT Island, Chris Gavin, animation, United Kingdom, 3'30", Seed / Ρεμε, Asparuh Petrov, animation, Bulgaria 1'15”, They Shoot Horses, Ruut van der Beele, fiction, The Netherlands, 7'37", The Delicate Art of the Bludgeon / L'Art Delicat de la Matraque Jean-Gabriel Périot, documentary, France, 4', Swimming Paradise / Het Zwemparadijs, Lodewijk Crijns, fiction, The Netherlands, 10', Chop Cup, weareom, experimental, Romania, 1’10”

Oscar winner Logorama screens at Go Short

Go Short congratulates the French film collective H5 with their Oscar. The fast-paced Logorama is featured in the Go Short animation program.

Logorama has won the Oscar for best animated short!
The protagonist of Logorama is an unleashed version of Ronald McDonald, ransacking a world made up of logos. So many famous and lesser-known logos are shooting across the screen, you can watch this short again and again and always discover new graphic jokes. In his 'acceptance speech' producer Nicolas Schmerkin thanks the 3000 unofficial sponsors and he ensures us that no logos were harmed during the recording. At Go Short you can see Logorama on the big screen and even distinguish the logos on the logos in the logos. Logorama is part of the European Competition: Animation 1, which is screened at Friday and Saturday. Last Friday, the festival announced the complete program on www.goshort.nl Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen takes place from 17 till 21 March 2010 around art house LUX main location of the festival, The Netherlands.

Waldemar, Isolde and Danyael go Short!

During the second edition of Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, ambassador Waldemar Torenstra is reinforced by Isolde Hallensleben and filmmaker Danyael Sugawara. Sugawara directed numerous short films and made his debut in 2009 with his first feature film Alles Stroomt, for which he received the public award at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht. Additionally, Danyael and Isolde star in the festival trailer, now available at the festival website: www.goshort.nl During the international festival for short film, taking place in Nijmegen from 17 till 21 March, Waldemar Torenstra and Danyael Sugawara teach a Masterclass for actors in public.