EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTIONS IN THE SPOTLIGHT: THE PRIX EURIMAGES

For the second time, the Prix Eurimages is being presented this year as the European Film Award, an award recognizing the important position co-production holds within the European film industry. This reward for European co-producers is presented by Eurimages, the fund that contributes to the co-production, distribution, and digitization of European cinematographic products and is also the patron of the European Film Academy.

This year, the awards go to two important producers who together developed European cinema and put it on the map:

Vibeke Windeløv Bettina Brokemper

Vibeke Windeløv is one of the most well-known and successful independent film producers in Scandinavia. Bettina Brokemper is a young German film producer with extensive international experience. Together, they were involved as co-producers in the production of Lars von Trier's DOGVILLE (European Director 2003) and MANDERLAY. Both films were also supported by Eurimages.

Vibeke Windeløv was involved from the beginning in the new wave of Danish cinema and the emergence of the Dogma movement. Between 1994 and 2006, she produced all Lars von Trier films, including BREAKING THE WAVES (Cannes Grand Jury Prize, European Film of the Year 1996), DANCER IN THE DARK (Cannes Palme d'Or, European Film of the Year 2000), and the television series THE KINGDOM. She has also produced a large number of short films and documentaries by and about artists such as Per Kirkeby, Karin Westerlund, and Asger Jorn. Vibeke Windeløv served on the board of the European Film Academy from 1998 to 2004 and was a jury member of the Venice Film Festival in 2001 and the Montreal Film Festival in 2006.

After working as first AD at JE Entertainment (now Endemol) in 1992, Bettina Brokemper studied production and media economics at the Film and Television University of Munich. After graduating, she received the GWFF Award for Young Producers and a scholarship to work and study in Los Angeles at Luc Besson's Seaside Production. Since 2001, Bettina Brokemper has worked as a producer for Pain Unlimited and Neue Impuls Film, where she was co-producer of THE SYRIAN BRIDE by Eran Riklis (2004). In May 2003, together with Helmut Hartl and Stefan Telegty, she founded her own production company, Heimatfilm, where she co-produced DEAR WENDY by Thomas Vinterberg (2005) and collaborated with Eran Riklis on the film LEMON TREE (2008). She is currently working on Lars von Trier's most recent film, ANTICHRIST.

The Prix Eurimages will be presented by the Vice-Presidents of Eurimages' Board of Management on Friday, December 5, after the European Film Academy's General Assembly, at the National Film School of Denmark.

For more information, see: www.coe.int/Eurimages

Berlin and Strasbourg, October 8, 2008

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