The French city of Lille hosted the second Emile Awards ceremony on Saturday evening, December 8, at which nineteen awards were presented, grouped under four categories: Student Films, Commissioned Films, TV/Broadcast Productions, and Feature Films.
The Danish series The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivanhoe and the Irish-Luxembourg-Canadian feature film Parvana took the top awards, scooping four prizes each.
Funan by Denis Do (a film produced by Sébastien Onomo from Les Films d'Ici, which was recently honored with the Grand Prize at the 2nd Animation Is Film Festival in Los Angeles) received the awards for Best Screenplay for a Feature Film and Best Sound Design for a Feature Film.
Two French short films also won awards:
- This Magnificent Cake! by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels (Belgium/France) received the Emile Award for Best Direction in an Animated Short Film
- (Fool Time) JOB by Gilles Cuvelier received the Emile Award Best Background and Character Design in a Short Film.
In the television category, Un homme est mort (A Man is Dead) by Olivier Cossu (France/Belgium) won the Emile Award for Best Soundtrack in a TV/Broadcast Production.
See the complete awards list here.
