AWARDS & JURY 2021

Previously, two jury prizes, one special prize and four audience prizes were awarded at the Provinziale. This was a bit confusing, and above all, it always caused discussions within the film festival team. Why are the long documentary and the short fiction film evaluated by one jury – but the short documentary and the animation film are not? Is the audience award aimed at the simple fare beyond the professional evaluation? Or does that mean underestimating the audience? And shouldn’t our competitions be built in such a way that the decision is as difficult as possible for everyone, regardless of whether it is a jury or the audience that has to decide? So should we use even more juries, award even more prizes – or go in the other direction?

There is “only” one audience award for each of our four competitions in 2021. So we’re asking a lot of you! To qualify your choices, you can cast your vote later this year: You have until the evening of the following day – apart from the last evening of the competition – to do so. This gives you the opportunity to talk to each other, to the filmmakers or to the film festival team. We would especially appreciate written comments in our PUBLICUMS BOOK, which we can read out at the award ceremony. Because where the jury is missing, the laudation is usually missing as well. So join in – talk to each other, leave your impressions! We are looking forward to your verdict!

• Audience Award the “e” Documentary 4,000 EUR
  donated by the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Energy of the State of Brandenburg
• Audience Award the “e” short documentary 2.000 EUR,
  donated by the mayor of the city of Eberswalde
• Audience Award the “e” short feature film 2.000 EUR,
  donated by Sparkasse Barnim
• Audience award the “e” animated film 2.000 EUR

In view of the already shaky presence planning for festival guests at the moment, we decided to try it in a different way. In 2021 there will be only one jury prize – this is the “Stachel”, which will be awarded to a film from our four competitions across all genres. Here, of course, we’re looking for a compelling piece of film, but we’re also challenging thematic engagement with our central questions: How do we arrange our lives in space, in the landscape? Do we find a wise next step in the dynamics of our gigantic appropriation of nature, or are we sitting on false promises? At a time when cheerful messages of sustainability are being proclaimed even from Davos, we want to award films that equip us with doubt and strength to move forward in these debates.

 

• Special Award ” THE PRICKLE” for the best cinematic examination of the sustainability issue 2,000 EUR
  donated by BARNIM ENERGY and Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development

Dr. Jan König
Jan König holds a doctorate in economics (FU Berlin) and has been with the city of Eberswalde since 2012. In 2017 he took over the management of the Department for Economic and Social Affairs, which also includes the Cultural Office. Together with his colleagues and the many cultural actors, he promotes, accompanies and shapes cultural life in Eberswalde in this capacity. He is also an honorary professor for municipal economic development at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development. HNEE Storytelling – a Soap Opera on Sustainability, which is founded by the Brandenburg State Ministry of Research, Economy and Culture. Recently, she started working on a second, more fariytale-like project named Es wa(h)r einmal… HNEE (True) Storytelling, where she is able to combine her knowledge on sustainability and storytelling with personal fates and accounts full of lifeblood and imagination.

Tobias Hartmann

Tobias Hartmann was born in Wilhelmshaven in 1988 and has lived in the Oderbruch since 2013. In 2015 he completed the master’s degree in regional development and nature conservation at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development. From 2013 to 2019 he was on the program advisory board of the Eberswalde Film Festival. He has been working for the Oderbruch Museum Altranft since 2016 and coordinates, among other things, the application for the European Heritage Label.

Christian Vahrson

Christian Vahrson, born in Costa Rica in 1988, has held a managerial position in the Barnim District Works Group since 2021. Among other things, he is responsible for issues relating to the regional energy industry and sustainable mobility in the Barnim district. Combined with a great joy in traveling, getting to know other cultures is important to him from the point of view of the systemic prerequisites. And if the wanderlust cannot be satisfied by traveling, it goes visually with the eyes of the filmmakers on a wandering through the world.

Johanna von Hackewitz

Johanna von Hackewitz studies regional management at the University for Sustainable Development in Eberswalde. Since the beginning of her studies she has been committed to the interests of the student body in student bodies such as the AStA. Since October 1st, 2021 she has been the student vice-president in the executive committee of the HNEE. Whether during studies, in student committee work, activist engagement or privately – for Johanna, sustainability is a cross-cutting issue that is given the best possible consideration everywhere. Johanna loves challenges and finds boredom annoying.