18/04/2016 - Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian received the award, aimed at promoting female directors, at Istanbul

Anca Damian collecting the Audentia Award at Istanbul (©Istanbul Film Festival)

Romania's Anca Damian won the €30,000 Eurimages Audentia Award, aimed at promoting female directors, for The Magic Mountain [+see also:
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The award, a cash prize of €30,000, has been instigated by Eurimages alongside a raft of other measures to promote greater gender equality in the European film industry. With it, Eurimages intends to celebrate women who have had the courage to be filmmakers, by giving their work greater visibility and inspiring other women to follow in their footsteps. Fifteen films had been pre-selected from across all categories and all films by female directors to compete for the first edition of the prize (read news).

For forthcoming editions a different international festival will be selected on a yearly basis.