12/03/2003

Redd Barna (Save the Children) by Terje Rangnes won two major prizes at the 33rd Tampere International Short Film Festival (5-9 March 2003): the Audience and UIP Tampere 2003 Awards.
Set up with the European Film Academy and 11 European film festivals, the UIP Award comes with a Euros2,000 prize and gives the winner automatic nomination to the European Film Awards 2003 in the short film category.
Produced by Motlys AS Save the Children is an episode of Rangnes’ feature film entitled Folk Flest Bor I Kina (Nobody Is Perfect In The Perfect Country) which won the Fassbinder prize for Best Film at the 2002 Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival (Germany).
The other major winners at this year’s Tampere event were Australia’s The Projectionist (winner of the Grand Prix), Suzie Templeton’s UK entry Dog (Best Animated Short), Russia’s documentary Kazan-Moscow-Kazan by Alexei Shipulin (Special Prize). Finland’s Meet You In Finland Angel (Tähteläiset) won the Risto Jarva Prize, the most important Finnish award, and two documentaries, Selam Vilhunen’s My Little Elephant (Best film under 30 mn) and Alexia Kouros and Kari Tervo’s Without My Daughter (Best film in the Long Category) each received Euros5,000.

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