Cinekid Awards Winners 2021
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The Cinekid Lions have been awarded to the best children’s films, youth series and game & app of 2021. With some of the winners and nominees slated for more screenings, Cinekid runs through October 31 within numerous locations across the country, and online on Cinekid Play.
The much-coveted Cinekid Lions for Best Children’s Film and Best Dutch Children’s Film were awarded to the thrilling science-fiction movie Captain Nova (director: Maurice Trouwborst), which had its world première as Cinekid opening film 2021. Back in 2018 Captain Nova was pitched as a project during the Junior Co-production Market.
The German movie Night Forest, directed by André Hörmann and Katrin Milhahn, won the Cinekid Lion in the Best Youth Film category. In the film, two best friends have the summer of their lives as they search both for a mysterious cave and a long-lost dad.
The Best Dutch Fiction Series award went to Elisabeth Hesemans for Kabam! while De dikke data show (Emiel Strzeszewski) won the prize for Best Dutch Non-fiction Series. The Dutch virtual reality game Traffic Jams (Little Chicken Game Company, NL) won the Cinekid Game & App Award.
For the second year in a row Emma Branderhorst won the Best Dutch Live Action Short Lion, this time for Spotless. Meanwhile the prize for Best Short Animation went to Sanne de Vries for Reflection. The Best Dutch Documentary Award was claimed by Milou Gevers for Why didn’t you stay for me?
From an international perspective, Sounds Between the Crowns by Filip Diviak (Czech Republic) won the Best International Short Animation while Henning Backhaus’ The Best Orchestra in the World (Austria) was awarded in the Best International Short Live Action category.
Cinekid for Professionals prizes
Cinekid for Professionals, the leading international industry event for the children’s media, also handed out its annual awards this evening. The winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, a €20,000 cash prize bestowed on a European co-production, was named as I Accidentally Wrote a Book (HU) by Nora Lakos, produced Claudia Sümeghy (JUNO11 Pictures).
The Filmmore Post-Production Award for Best Live-action Project, valued at €5,000, was presented by the Amsterdam-based post-production company to Idje Doesn’t Want to Have a Haircut (NL) by Michael Middelkoop, produced by Tom van Blommestein (Lemming Film).
All the Cinekid jury reports can be read here.
All the winners in a glance:
Best Children’s Film
Captain Nova
Director: Maurice Trouwborst
Script: Maurice Trouwborst, Lotte Tabbers
Production: Keplerfilm
Netherlands
Best Dutch Children’s Film
Captain Nova
Director: Maurice Trouwborst
Script: Maurice Trouwborst, Lotte Tabbers
Production Keplerfilm
Netherlands
Best Youth Film
Night Forest
Directors: André Hörmann & Katrin Milhahn
Script: André Hörmann, Katrin Milhahn
Production: Kurhaus Production
Germany
Best Dutch Short Animation
Reflection
Director: Sanna de Vries
Script: Sanna de Vries
Production: Studio Pupil
Netherlands
Best Dutch Short Live Action
Spotless
Director: Emma Branderhorst
Script: Milou Rohde
Production: IJswater Films
Netherlands
Best Dutch Short Documentary
Why didn’t you stay for me?
Director: Milou Gevers
Script: Milou Gevers
Production: Netherlands Film Academy
Netherlands
Best International Short Animation
Sounds between the Crowns
Director: Filip Diviak
Script: Filip Diviak
Production: Tomas Bata University
Czech Republic
Best International Short Live Action
The Best Orchestra in the World
Director: Henning Backhaus
Script: Albert Meisl, Henning Backhaus, Rafael Haider
Production: Filmakademie Wien
Austria
Best Dutch Non-Fiction Series
De dikke data show
Director: Emiel Strzeszewski
Script: Emiel Strzeszewski, Jard Struik
Production: VPRO
Netherlands
Best Dutch Fiction Series
Kabam!
Director: Elisabeth Hesemans
Script: Floor Paul, Lilian Sijbesma
Production: IJswater Films, KRO-NCRV
Netherlands
Cinekid Game & App Award
Traffic Jams
Little Chicken Game Company
Netherlands
Eurimages Co-Production Development Award (Jury award € 20,000)
I Accidentally Wrote a Book
Director: Nora Lakos
Script: Nora Lakos
Production: JUNO11 Productions
Hungary
Filmmore Post-Production Award (Jury award € 5000)
Idje Doesn’t Want to Have a Haircut
Director: Michael Middelkoop
Script Michael Middelkoop
Production: Lemming Film
Netherlands