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This year's nominations were chosen by an international committee consisting of Manlio Castagna (Giffoni International Film Festival/Italy), Ana Cerar (International Film Festival Kino Otok - Isola Cinema/ Slovenia), Corinna Downing (London Film Festival - British Film Institute/UK), EFA Board Member Vanessa Henneman (talent agent/The Netherlands) and Holger Twele (film educator/Germany).
On 6 May, the three nominated films will be screened to audiences of 12 – 14 year-olds in the following 36 countries across Europe and beyond:
| AUSTRALIA: Brisbane AUSTRIA: St. Pölten & Vienna BELGIUM: Brussels BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Sarajevo BULGARIA: Sofia CROATIA: Zagreb CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague DENMARK: Aalborg ESTONIA: Tallinn FINLAND: Helsinki FRANCE: Bourg Saint Maurice – Les Arcs GERMANY: Berlin, Chemnitz & Erfurt HUNGARY: Budapest ICELAND: Reykjavik RELAND: Dublin ISRAEL: Tel Aviv ITALY: Florence, Rome & Turin KOSOVO: Prizren |
LATVIA: Riga LITHUANIA: Vilnius LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg FYR MACEDONIA: Skopje MALTA: Valletta MONTENEGRO: Podgorica THE NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam POLAND: Lodz, Warsaw & Wroclaw PORTUGAL: Lisbon ROMANIA: Cluj-Napoca SERBIA: Niš SLOVAKIA: Bratislava SLOVENIA: Izola SPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid & Seville SWITZERLAND: Lucerne TURKEY: Istanbul UK: London |
And it is the young audience that will act as a jury and vote for the winner right after the screenings. In a truly European vote, jury speakers will then transmit the national results live via video conference to Erfurt (Germany) where the winner will be announced in an award ceremony streamed live on yaa.europeanfilmawards.eu, a special website that offers further information about the nominated films and the participating cities.
But the YAA now also includes various platforms for the general public to watch the nominated films: EFA Productions, EFA’s in-house production company, will bring the EFA Young Audience Award films out Europe-wide on Video-on-Demand (T-VoD) platforms, like iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft and Pantaflix, on the regional Balkan-platform Cinesquare, as well as on local platforms like Filmin or Univerciné!
EFA Productions teamed up with Under The Milky Way for this initiative with the support of Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union, to make the nominated films available for young viewers all year around. Finally, those who could not participate in the EFA Young Audience Award event will have the possibility to watch the nominated films online. VoD is a great way to reach this age group to promote the EFA Young Audience Award and the films nominated for it.
For the opening of the VoD initiative, the films of the last three editions as well as the three films nominated in 2018 will all go online on 7 May, one day after this year's EFA Young Audience Award. Films nominated in earlier editions will then follow next year.
