Franswa Sharl wins the Crystal Bear
February 25th 2010 06:23
Best Short Film at Berlin International Film Festival
Screen Australia¬–funded short film Franswa Sharl has been awarded the prestigious Crystal Bear Award for Best Short Film at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.
Written and directed by Hannah Hilliard and produced by Linda Micsko, Franswa Sharl is about a 12-year-old boy who reinvents himself as a French girl while on a family holiday in Fiji so he can enter a competition – much to his father’s dismay. A fictionalised account of a bizarre stunt pulled off by co-writer Greg Logan, Franswa Sharl is framed in the exotic and colourful landscape of a Fijian resort in 1980.
On awarding Franswa Sharl, the Berlin jury said, “We couldn’t help laughing when we saw this charming and funny story based on a true story. Nonstop fun! For a moment we forgot the world around us. The actors were simply great.”
“The audience reaction in Berlin has been amazing – the best response a filmmaker could possibly hope for,” said director Hannah Hilliard.
Callan McAuliffe stars as the young Greg Logan who will go to the most extreme lengths to win the attention of his father. McAuliffe has recently been cast as the lead in the feature Flipped. Other Franswa Sharl cast include John Batchelor, Diana Glenn and Steve Lemarquand.
Franswa Sharl screened in Berlin’s Generation KPlus section – a program targeting the youngest cinemagoers aged four years and over.
Franswa Sharl
Production Company: Room Four Film Pty Ltd
Writers: Greg Logan and Hannah Hilliard
Director: Hannah Hilliard
Producer: Linda Micsko
Cast: Callan McAuliffe, John Batchelor, Diana Glenn, Steve Lemarquand, Pippa Grandison, Ivy Latimer
Synopsis: Keeping the position of number one son calls for a certain amount of ingenuity.
The full ist of Berlinale Award winners are:
PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
GOLDEN BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM
Bal
Honey
by Semih Kaplanoglu
JURY GRAND PRIX-SILVER BEAR
Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier
If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle
by Florin Serban
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Roman Polanski for
The Ghost Writer (The Ghost Writer)
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTRESS
Shinobu Terajima in
Caterpillar (Caterpillar) by Koji Wakamatsu
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR
Grigori Dobrygin
ex aequo
Sergei Puskepalis for
Kak ya provel etim letom (How I Ended This Summer) by Alexei Popogrebsky
SILVER BEAR FOR AN OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT IN THE CATEGORY CAMERA
Pavel Kostomarov for the camera in
Kak ya provel etim letom (How I Ended This Summer) by Alexei Popogrebsky
SILVER BEAR FOR THE BEST SCRIPT
Wang Quan'an and
Na Jin for
Tuan Yuan (Apart Together) by Wang Quan'an
ALFRED BAUER PRIZE, awarded in memory of the Festival founder, for a work of particular innovation
Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier
If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle
by Florin Serban
BEST FIRST FEATURE JURY
BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD, endowed with 50.000 Euros founded by GWFF
Sebbe
by Babak Najafi
PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY
GOLDEN BEAR
Händelse Vid Bank(Incident by a Bank)
by Ruben Östlund
THE JURY PRIZE - SILVER BEAR
Hayerida
The Descent
by Shai Miedzinski
BERLINALE SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010
Venus vs Me
Venus vs Me
by Nathalie Teirlinck
DAAD SHORT FILM AWARD
Colivia
The Cage
by Adrian Sitaru
PRIZES OF THE JURIES GENERATION
Children’s Jury Generation Kplus
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM
Shui Yuet Sun Tau(Echoes Of The Rainbow)
by Alex Law
SPECIAL MENTION
This Way of Life
by Thomas Burstyn
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM
Franswa Sharl
by Hannah Hilliard
SPECIAL MENTION
Indigo
by Jack Price
Youth Jury Generation 14plus
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM
Neukölln Unlimited
by Agostino Imondi, Dietmar Ratsch
SPECIAL MENTION
Dooman River
by Zhang Lu
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM
Az Bad Beporsid(Ask The Wind)
by Batin Ghobadi
SPECIAL MENTION
Ønskebørn(Out of Love)
by Birgitte Stærmose
International Jury Generation Kplus
THE GRAND PRIX OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST FILM
Boy
by Taika Waititi
SPECIAL MENTION
Yeo-haeng-ja(A Brand New Life)
by Ounie Lecomte
THE SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM
Apollo
by Felix Gönnert
SPECIAL MENTION
The Six Dollar Fifty Man
by Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland
INDEPENDENT JURIES
PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Competition Bal (Honey), by Semih Kaplanoglu
Panorama Kawasakiho ruze (Kawasaki's Rose), by Jan Hrebejk
Forum Aisheen [Still Alive in Gaza], by Nicolas Wadimoff
FIPRESCI PRIZES
Competition En Familie (A Family), by Pernille Fischer Christensen
Panorama Parade (Parade), by Isao Yukisada
Forum El vuelco del cangrejo (Crab Trap), by Oscar Ruíz Navia
PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS
Shahada (Shahada), by Burhan Qurbani
C.I.C.A.E. PRIZE
Panorama Kawasakiho ruze (Kawasaki's Rose), by Jan Hrebejk
Forum Winter's Bone (Winter's Bone), by Debra Granik
LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS
Die Fremde (When We Leave), by Feo Aladag
TEDDY AWARDS
Best Feature Film The Kids Are All Right (The Kids Are All Right), by Lisa Cholodenko
Best Documentary Film La bocca del lupo (The Mouth of the Wolf), by Pietro Marcello
Best Short Film The Feast Of Stephen (The Feast Of Stephen), by James Franco
Teddy Jury Award Open (Open), by Jake Yuzna
DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE, endowed by the German-French Youth Office
Lebendkontrolle (Outside), by Florian Schewe
Special Mention
Portraits deutscher Alkoholiker (Portraits of German Alcoholics), by Carolin Schmitz
CALIGARI FILM PRIZE
La bocca del lupo(The Mouth of the Wolf), by Pietro Marcello
NETPAC PRIZE
Yi yè Tái bei (Au revoir Taipei), by Arvin Chen
PEACE FILM AWARD
Son Of Babylon (Son Of Babylon), by Mohamed Al-Daradji
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE
Son Of Babylon (Son Of Babylon), by Mohamed Al-Daradji
ex aequo
Waste Land (Waste Land), by Lucy Walker, João Jardim, Karen Harley
FEMINA FILM PRIZE
Reinhild Blaschke
for the production design in Im Schatten (In the Shadows) by Thomas Arslan (Forum)
READERS’ JURIES AND AUDIENCE AWARD
PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD
Waste Land (Waste Land), by Lucy Walker, João Jardim, Karen Harley
BERLINER MORGENPOST READERS’ PRIZE
En ganske snill mann (A Somewhat Gentle Man), by Hans Petter Moland
TAGESSPIEGEL READERS’ PRIZE
Winter's Bone (Winter's Bone), by Debra Granik
SIEGESSÄULE READERS’ AWARD
Postcard To Daddy (Postcard To Daddy), by Michael Stock
PRIZE OF THE BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS
SCORE COMPETITION
Camilo Sanabria (Colombia)
BERLIN TODAY AWARD
Bryn Chainey (Australia)
for Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness
www.berlinale.de
Screen Australia¬–funded short film Franswa Sharl has been awarded the prestigious Crystal Bear Award for Best Short Film at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.
Callan McAuliffe_Hannah Hilliard's Franswa Sharl.
On awarding Franswa Sharl, the Berlin jury said, “We couldn’t help laughing when we saw this charming and funny story based on a true story. Nonstop fun! For a moment we forgot the world around us. The actors were simply great.”
“The audience reaction in Berlin has been amazing – the best response a filmmaker could possibly hope for,” said director Hannah Hilliard.
Callan McAuliffe stars as the young Greg Logan who will go to the most extreme lengths to win the attention of his father. McAuliffe has recently been cast as the lead in the feature Flipped. Other Franswa Sharl cast include John Batchelor, Diana Glenn and Steve Lemarquand.
Franswa Sharl screened in Berlin’s Generation KPlus section – a program targeting the youngest cinemagoers aged four years and over.
Franswa Sharl
Production Company: Room Four Film Pty Ltd
Writers: Greg Logan and Hannah Hilliard
Director: Hannah Hilliard
Producer: Linda Micsko
Cast: Callan McAuliffe, John Batchelor, Diana Glenn, Steve Lemarquand, Pippa Grandison, Ivy Latimer
Synopsis: Keeping the position of number one son calls for a certain amount of ingenuity.
The full ist of Berlinale Award winners are:
PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
GOLDEN BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM
Bal
Honey
by Semih Kaplanoglu
JURY GRAND PRIX-SILVER BEAR
Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier
If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle
by Florin Serban
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Roman Polanski for
The Ghost Writer (The Ghost Writer)
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTRESS
Shinobu Terajima in
Caterpillar (Caterpillar) by Koji Wakamatsu
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR
Grigori Dobrygin
ex aequo
Sergei Puskepalis for
Kak ya provel etim letom (How I Ended This Summer) by Alexei Popogrebsky
SILVER BEAR FOR AN OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT IN THE CATEGORY CAMERA
Pavel Kostomarov for the camera in
Kak ya provel etim letom (How I Ended This Summer) by Alexei Popogrebsky
SILVER BEAR FOR THE BEST SCRIPT
Wang Quan'an and
Na Jin for
Tuan Yuan (Apart Together) by Wang Quan'an
ALFRED BAUER PRIZE, awarded in memory of the Festival founder, for a work of particular innovation
Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier
If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle
by Florin Serban
BEST FIRST FEATURE JURY
BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD, endowed with 50.000 Euros founded by GWFF
Sebbe
by Babak Najafi
PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY
GOLDEN BEAR
Händelse Vid Bank(Incident by a Bank)
by Ruben Östlund
THE JURY PRIZE - SILVER BEAR
Hayerida
The Descent
by Shai Miedzinski
BERLINALE SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010
Venus vs Me
Venus vs Me
by Nathalie Teirlinck
DAAD SHORT FILM AWARD
Colivia
The Cage
by Adrian Sitaru
PRIZES OF THE JURIES GENERATION
Children’s Jury Generation Kplus
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM
Shui Yuet Sun Tau(Echoes Of The Rainbow)
by Alex Law
SPECIAL MENTION
This Way of Life
by Thomas Burstyn
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM
Franswa Sharl
by Hannah Hilliard
SPECIAL MENTION
Indigo
by Jack Price
Youth Jury Generation 14plus
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM
Neukölln Unlimited
by Agostino Imondi, Dietmar Ratsch
SPECIAL MENTION
Dooman River
by Zhang Lu
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM
Az Bad Beporsid(Ask The Wind)
by Batin Ghobadi
SPECIAL MENTION
Ønskebørn(Out of Love)
by Birgitte Stærmose
International Jury Generation Kplus
THE GRAND PRIX OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST FILM
Boy
by Taika Waititi
SPECIAL MENTION
Yeo-haeng-ja(A Brand New Life)
by Ounie Lecomte
THE SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM
Apollo
by Felix Gönnert
SPECIAL MENTION
The Six Dollar Fifty Man
by Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland
INDEPENDENT JURIES
PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Competition Bal (Honey), by Semih Kaplanoglu
Panorama Kawasakiho ruze (Kawasaki's Rose), by Jan Hrebejk
Forum Aisheen [Still Alive in Gaza], by Nicolas Wadimoff
FIPRESCI PRIZES
Competition En Familie (A Family), by Pernille Fischer Christensen
Panorama Parade (Parade), by Isao Yukisada
Forum El vuelco del cangrejo (Crab Trap), by Oscar Ruíz Navia
PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS
Shahada (Shahada), by Burhan Qurbani
C.I.C.A.E. PRIZE
Panorama Kawasakiho ruze (Kawasaki's Rose), by Jan Hrebejk
Forum Winter's Bone (Winter's Bone), by Debra Granik
LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS
Die Fremde (When We Leave), by Feo Aladag
TEDDY AWARDS
Best Feature Film The Kids Are All Right (The Kids Are All Right), by Lisa Cholodenko
Best Documentary Film La bocca del lupo (The Mouth of the Wolf), by Pietro Marcello
Best Short Film The Feast Of Stephen (The Feast Of Stephen), by James Franco
Teddy Jury Award Open (Open), by Jake Yuzna
DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE, endowed by the German-French Youth Office
Lebendkontrolle (Outside), by Florian Schewe
Special Mention
Portraits deutscher Alkoholiker (Portraits of German Alcoholics), by Carolin Schmitz
CALIGARI FILM PRIZE
La bocca del lupo(The Mouth of the Wolf), by Pietro Marcello
NETPAC PRIZE
Yi yè Tái bei (Au revoir Taipei), by Arvin Chen
PEACE FILM AWARD
Son Of Babylon (Son Of Babylon), by Mohamed Al-Daradji
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE
Son Of Babylon (Son Of Babylon), by Mohamed Al-Daradji
ex aequo
Waste Land (Waste Land), by Lucy Walker, João Jardim, Karen Harley
FEMINA FILM PRIZE
Reinhild Blaschke
for the production design in Im Schatten (In the Shadows) by Thomas Arslan (Forum)
READERS’ JURIES AND AUDIENCE AWARD
PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD
Waste Land (Waste Land), by Lucy Walker, João Jardim, Karen Harley
BERLINER MORGENPOST READERS’ PRIZE
En ganske snill mann (A Somewhat Gentle Man), by Hans Petter Moland
TAGESSPIEGEL READERS’ PRIZE
Winter's Bone (Winter's Bone), by Debra Granik
SIEGESSÄULE READERS’ AWARD
Postcard To Daddy (Postcard To Daddy), by Michael Stock
PRIZE OF THE BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS
SCORE COMPETITION
Camilo Sanabria (Colombia)
BERLIN TODAY AWARD
Bryn Chainey (Australia)
for Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness
www.berlinale.de
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