Undressing My Mother |
Ken Wardrop’s short film ‘Undressing My Mother’ has won the European Film Academy Short Film Prix 2005 Award at the EFA’s held in Berlin on the 3rd of December 2005.
The Irish short film qualified for entry to the EFA’s after it won the Best Documentary Award
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at the Tampere Film Festival in Finland earlier this year. It was pipped against twelve of the best short films in Europe that qualified as winners of the other Prix short film festivals. Over 1,600 members of the European Film Academy voted to decided the overall winner.
‘Undressing My Mother’ is a Venom Film production directed by Ken Wardrop and produced by Andrew Freedman. The film was their graduate film from the IADT National Film School in Dun Laoghaire and this award is the 24th for the film having previously picked up, amongst others, the Irish Film & Television Award for Best Short Film in 2004 and the Audience Award For Best International Short at the Cork Film Festival.
The young filmmakers attended the gala event which also saw screen legend Sir Sean Connery pick up a Lifetime Achievement Award. The biggest winner on the night was Michael Haneke’s film ‘Caché (Hidden)’ which won five awards including the Best European Film and Best European Director awards. Rupert Gregson-Williams & Andrea Guerra won the European Composer 2005 award for Terry George’s ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ won the EFA Non European Film Award.
The director, Ken Wardrop said “We are delighted with this latest award and put the success of this film down to the exquisite humour and wonderful honesty of the film’s character, my mother.” Andrew Freedman added that he believed “the academy’s choice was in recognition of the films creative manner in which the frank visuals and content work in harmony and respect.”
Full List of Winners:
EUROPEAN FILM 2005
CACHÉ (Hidden), France/Austria/Germany/Italy
Directed by Michael Haneke
Produced by Les Films du Losange, Wega Film, Bavaria Film, BIM Distribuzione
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2005
Michael Haneke for CACHÉ (Hidden), France/Austria/Germany/Italy
EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2005
Julia Jentsch in SOPHIE SCHOLL, DIE LETZTEN TAGE (Sophie Scholl, the Final Days), Germany
EUROPEAN ACTOR 2005
Daniel Auteuil in CACHÉ (Hidden), France/Austria/Germany/Italy
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2005
Hany Abu-Assad & Bero Beyer for PARADISE NOW, Netherlands/Israel/Germany/France
EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER 2005
Franz Lustig for DON'T COME KNOCKING, Germany
EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2005
Rupert Gregson-Williams & Andrea Guerra for HOTEL RWANDA, UK/South Africa /Italy
EUROPEAN EDITOR 2005
Michael Hudecek & Nadine Muse for CACHÉ (Hidden), France/Austria/Germany/Italy
EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2005
Aline Bonetto for UN LONG DIMANCHE DE FIANÇAILLES (A Very Long Engagement), France
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Sir Sean Connery, UK
EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2005
Maurice Jarre, France
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DISCOVERY 2005 - Prix Fassbinder
ANKLAGET (Accused), by Jakob Thuesen, Denmark
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS AWARD 2005 - Prix Fipresci
CACHÉ (Hidden) by Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany/Italy
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2005 - Prix ARTE
UN DRAGON DANS LES EAUX PURES DU CAUCASE (The Pipeline Next Door), by Nino Kirtadzé, France
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2005 - Prix UIP
UNDRESSING MY MOTHER by Ken Wardrop, Ireland
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY NON-EUROPEAN FILM 2005 - Prix Screen International
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, by George Clooney, USA
THE JAMESON PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2005
for Best European Director
Marc Rothemund for SOPHIE SCHOLL - THE FINAL DAYS
for Best European Actor
Orlando Bloom in KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
for Best European Actress
Julia Jentsch in SOPHIE SCHOLL - THE FINAL DAYS
