FESTIVALS: Red Spider and Vasaryova Pick up goEast Prizes

27-04-2016

FESTIVALS: Red Spider and Vasaryova Pick up goEast Prizes

By FNE Staff

Red Spider by Marcin Koszałka

WIESBADEN: The Polish/Czech/Slovak coproduction Red Spider directed by Marcin Koszałka won the Best Director award and Emilia Vasaryova received an Honourable Mention for her title performance in the Slovak/Czech film Eva Nova from director Marko Skop at the 16th goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Films during the closing ceremony on 26 April 2016.

Russia took three awards including Best Film for Insight directed by Aleksandr Kott. A total of 45,000 EUR in prize money was awarded at the final ceremony.

Young directors from Slovakia, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina were among the recipients of development funding for their films. They include, respectively, Milan Durnak (SK), Anda Puskas (RO) and Jasmin Brutus (BH).

The list of winning films follows:

Best Film

Insight (Russia)
Directed by Aleksandr Kott

Best Director

Marcin Koszalka for The Red Spider (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Produced by MD4, Sokol Kollar and Fog’n’Desire Films
Supported by Polish Film Institute, Krakow Film Commission, Czech Film Fund and Slovak Audiovisual Fund

Cultural Diversity Award

Not My Job (Russia)
Directed by Dennis Shabaev

Honourable Mention

Emilia Vasaryova for her performance in Eva Nova (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
Directed by Marko Skop
Produced by Artileria
Coproduced by Sirius Films (CZ), Filmpark production (SK), Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (SK)
Supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Czech State Cinematography Fund, the MEDIA Programme, the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic