04/05/2015 - Children in 25 European cities vote for Gabriele Salvatores’ latest film

The Invisible Boy screenwriter Stefano Sardo, with the Young Audience Award

Gabriele Salvatores’ The Invisible Boy [+see also:
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The fourth edition of the EFA Young Audience Award included the two other nominees Sanna Lenken’s My Skinny Sister [+see also:
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interview: Sanna Lenken
film profile] and Mark Noonan’s You’re Ugly Too [+see also:
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interview: Mark Noonan
film profile] (read the news). With a record 25 participating countries this year, from Israel to Sweden, the award is organised and presented by the European Film Academy and EFA Productions, with the support of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM).