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YDA 2011 Winners

Up-and-coming director Hanna Maria Heidrich is the Queen of Cannes after scooping the Special Jury Award at the shots/cfp-e Young Directors Award.

Hanna – winner of Special Jury Prize with cfp-e president Francois Chilot and Manfred Vogelsanger.

The ceremony at the Palais Stephanie in Cannes was a celebration of new talent, with Heidrich leading the pack. Her short film We Miss You for WWF was awarded joint first prize in the European Branded Short category as well as the Special Jury Prize.

From spec ads to music videos and web films, 2011 was a bumper year for entries, according to shots editor-at-large Lyndy Stout. “With over 350 entries we were viewing work for days but the shortlist reflects the amazing fresh new directing talent, original ideas and craft from new directors all over the world which like cream rises to the top.”

It’s a sentiment shared by Cfp-e president Francois Chilot who agreed that the standard of entries this year was particularly high, especially in the the filmschool and non-European music video categories.

The winning films will be shown in shots 131, but in the mean time, here’s a rundown of last night’s winning entries:

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

WE MISS YOU

Director: Hanna Maria Heidrich

Born in 1984 in Germany, Hanna Maria Heidrich grew up in a small town close to the Black Forest. She started experimenting with photography, drawing and painting at an early age, but soon discovered her love for filmmaking and enrolled at the Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg in 2005 to study Direction. Since then she has won numerous international awards for her commercials and short films and was awarded a scholarship for the UCLA – Filmacademy Hollywood Masterlcass in Los Angeles. In order to deepen her direction studies, she spent 2009 at Central Saint Martins College in London and is now producing her final films at the Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg. Apart from film Hanna Maria is interested in theatre, dance, photography, art, music and interior design.

Non European Broadcast

2nd Prize

Title: Dad’s Love

Director: Wataru Sato

Production Company: TYO Inc.

Country: Japan

Shortlist

Title: Blender

Director: Michael Lockshin

Production Company: Bazelevs

Country: Russia

Title: Let there be light

Director: Helen Clemens

Production Company: Plaza Films

Country: Australia

 

Non European Test Commercials

2nd Prize

Title: First Date

Director: Ben Callner

Production Company: Collective

Country: USA

Shortlist

Title: Volkswagen – Escape

Director: David Colin

Production Company: freelance director

Country: Australia

Title: “A Boy And His Tire”

Director: Jeannette Godoy

Production Company: Superlounge

Country: USA

Non European Filmschool

2nd Prize

Title: Public Execution

Director: Y-C Tom Lee

Production Company: Art Center College of Design

Country: USA

Shortlist

Title: Voices from the Field

Director: John X. Carey

Production Company: Art Center College of Design

Country: USA

Title: The World Bullies you when you can’t see

Director: Garon Campbell / Danielle Erasmus

Production Company: AFDA

Country: South Africa

Non European Webfilms

1st Prize

Title: WORDS

Director: Everynone

Production Company: Epoch Films

Country: UK

2nd Prize

Title: Wolf is back

Director: Michael Lockshin

Production Company: Bazelevs

Country: Russia

Shortlist

Title: December

Director: Andreas Pasvantis

Production Company: 328 Stories

Country: Nederland

Title: Ethan

Director: MOS

Production Company: Industry Films

Country: Canada

Non European Branded Shortfilms

1st Prize

Title: Hong Kong Honey

Director: Kiku Ohe

Production Company: Exit Films

Country: Australia

Shortlist

Title: Converse Jacky

Director: Rowan Cloete

Production Company: Long Island Media

Country: South Africa

Title: Levi’s Things Come Together

Director: Daniels

Production Company: Prettybird

Country: USA

Title: Converse Sipho

Director: Rowan Cloete

Production Company: Long Island Media

Country: South Africa

Title: COS

Director: –

Production Company: –

Country: –


Non European Music Videos

 

1st Prize

Title: Spoek Mathambo “Control”

Director: Pieter Hugo & Michael Cleary

Production Company: Orange Films

Country: South Africa

2nd Prize

Title: Cordrazine ‘Always Coming Down’

Director: Stephen Carroll

Production Company: The Otto Empire

Country: Australia

Shortlist

Title: Turn Up The Volume

Director: Miles Jay & Derek Blais

Production Company: New Media Athletes

Country: Canada

Title: By Some Miracle

Director: David Altobelli

Production Company: Symphony 19

Country: USA

European Broadcast

2nd Prize

Title: Nike/Footlocker- I am the rules

Director: alexandliane

Production company: Factory Films

Country: UK

Shortlist

Title: Love Life. Fight Cancer

Director: Lennart Verstegen

Production company: Wefilm

Country: the Netherlands

 

Title: Auction

Director: Nicole Volavka

Production company: Lucky Man Films

Country: Czech Republic

Title: NKF “Record Rhop”

Director: Andreas “bombom” Lisberg

Production company: Paradox Reklamefilm as

Country: Norway

European test commercials

1st Prize

Title: Femme-o-matic

Director: Jelmar Hufen

Production company: Comrad

Country: the Netherlands

Shortlist

Title: Clever Dick

Director: Daniel Perez

Production company: TBWAparis

Country: France

Title: Because I Like You

Director: Davide Mardegan

Production company: Cric

Country: Italy

Title: Balloons

Director: Timo Schaedel

Production company: Timo Schaedel

Country: Germany

European film school

1st Prize

Title: Dirtdevil – Exorcist

Director: Andreas Roth

Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Country: Germany

1st Prize

Title: We Miss You

Director: Hanna Maria Heidrich

Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Country: Germany

2nd Prize

Title: Whatever Happened

Director: Christian Mielmann

Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Country: Germany

Shortlist

Title: Opel OPC

Director: Sandin Puce

Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Country: Germany

Title: One

Director: Mario Zozin

Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Country: Germany

Title: The Customer

Director: Kai Schonrath

Production company:Filmakademie Baden Württemberg

Country: Germany

 

Title: A World Without Electricity

Director: Stephan Hilpert

Production company: HFF München

Country: Germany

Title: the Journey

Director: Thomas Garber

Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Country: Germany

European webfilms

1st Prize

Title: Nokia N8

Director: Sumo Scienc

Production company: Aardman

Country: UK

2nd Prize

Title: Nohair – the Carpet

Director: Georg von Mitzlaff

Production company: Element e Filmproduktion gmbh

Country: Germany

Shortlist

Title: La Senza – Cup Size Choir

Director: Aneil Karia

Production company: Skin Flicks

Country: UK

Title: Facebook Unfriend Coal

Director: Daniel Bird

Production company: Savage

Country: Czech Republic

Title: Amnesty International

Director: Emre Olcayto

Production company: Denzzo

Country: Belgium

Title: Uniplan “Eckig”

Director: Isabel Prahl

Production company: Element e Filmproduktion gmbh

Country: Germany

Title: Lira’s Manifest

Director: Hauke Hilberg

Production company: Czar Film gmbh

Country: Germany

European branded short films

1st Prize

Title: the Car Parts

Director: Timo Schaedel

Production company: Infected Postproduction GmbH

Country: Germany

1st Prize

Title: We Miss You

Director: Hanna Maria Heidrich

Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Country: Germany

Shortlist

Title: Clever Dick

Director: Daniel Perez

Production company: TBWAparis

Country: France

Title: EF International Language Centers – Live the Language – Paris

Director: Gustav Johansson

Production company: Camp David Film

Country: Sweden

Title: Nokia N8

Director: Sumo Science

Production company: Aardman

Country: UK

European music videos

2nd prize

Title: Esthers

Director: Charles de Meyer

Production company: Tall Stories

Country: UK

2nd Prize

Title: Karl X Johans – Flames

Director: Gustav Johansson

Production company: Camp

Country: Sweden

Shortlist

Title: Metronomy – She Wants

Director: Jul & Mat

Production company: Solab

Country: France

Title: Patrice “Ain’t got no”

Director: Guillaume Cagniard

Production company: Cosa

Country: France

Title: When I Am King

Director: Sverre Fredriksen

Production company: Submarine Channel

Country: the Netherlands

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