i.a. “Vera” as “Best Feature Film” and “Souls of a River” as “Best Documentary”
Graz (OTS) – This year’s Diagonale ends today, on Sunday, March 26, 2023, with the main award ceremony – the ORF was represented with a total of 35 productions in the program of the Austrian film festival in Graz. After the Franz Grabner and Thomas Pluch screenplay prizes were awarded to a total of four productions with ORF participation during the festival week, there are now a further nine feature films and documentaries co-financed by the ORF as part of the film/television agreement a media art project among this year’s winners. For example, the Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Feature Film goes to “Vera” by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, while the Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Documentary Film goes to Chris’s “Souls of a River” at the awards ceremony in the Orpheum Graz crikellis. In addition to the ten film projects that were represented in the Diagonale 2023 program, the production “Rotzbub” (VAM Diagonale Prize for outstanding production achievements in 2022) is also among this year’s award winners (ex aequo with “Corsage” and “Rubikon” ).
Diagonale award ceremony 2023 – 13 awards for 11 productions co-financed by the ORF at a glance:
Grand Diagonale Prize of the State of Styria / Best Feature Film: “Vera” by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Grand Diagonale Prize of the State of Styria / Best Documentary: “Souls of a River” by Chris Krikellis
Diagonale Prize Innovative Cinema of the City of Graz / Best Innovative Film, Experimental or Animated Film:
“C-TV (If I tell you, I like you)” by Eva Egermann and Cordula Thym – a project of the ORF III media art series “Pixel, Bytes + Film – Artist in Residence”
Diagonale Prize Editing of the Association Film Editing aea/Best Artistic Montage Documentary: Lisa Zoe Geretschläger for “Souls of a River”
Diagonale Prize for Image Design from the Association of Austrian Cameramen AAC/Best Image Design for a Feature Film: Judith Kaufmann for “Corsage”
Diagonale prize for image design from the Association of Austrian Cameramen AAC/Best image design for a documentary film: Klemens Koscher for “27 Storeys”
Diagonale Prize for Sound Design from the Professional Association of Film Sound Creators in Austria – Filmton Austria/Best Sound Design Feature Film: Lenja Gathmann for “Family Dinner”
Diagonale Prize for production design and costume design from the Association of Austrian Film Decorators VÖF/Best production design: Martin Reiter for “Corsage”
Diagonale Acting Awards in cooperation with the VdFS – collecting society of filmmakers for a remarkable performance by an Austrian actress and an Austrian actor in a Diagonale’23 competition film:
Pia Hierzegger for “Family Dinner”
Gerhard Liebmann for “Eismayer”
VAM Diagonale Prize for outstanding production achievements ex aequo to the following three productions:
Film AG for “Corsage” (Alexander Glehr and Johanna Scherz);
Samsara Film Production and Graf Film Production for “Rubikon” (Loredana Rehekampff, Andreas Schmied and Klaus Graf);
Aichholzer film production for “Rotzbub” (Josef Aichholzer and Ernst Geyer);
Diagonale Prize for Film Composition of the Austrian Composers Association / Best Film Composition Feature Film: Karwan Marouf for “Stars Under the City”
Diagonale Audience Award from the Kleine Zeitung/most popular film of the Diagonale’23: “Feminism WTF” by Katharina Mückstein
Four productions with ORF participation had already received awards as part of the Diagonale:
Franz Grabner Prize 2023 for humanistic documentary filmmaking in the field of television and cinema to:
“Away with it – -The Art of Disposal” by Karin Berghammer “Best TV Documentary”
“Let Me Fly” by Evelyn Faye “Best Feature Documentary”
Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards 2023:
Main prize to Marie Kreutzer for “Corsage”
Special Jury Prize to Tizza Covi for “Vera”
The diagonal ’23 on Flimmit
Flimmit (flimmit.at) is back on board as a long-standing streaming partner and took over the patronage of the short film program this year. Works such as: “Ciao, Czerny, Ciao” by Elisabeth Jakobi and Maximilian Conway, “Until I lie still” by Yana Eresina, “mise à nu” by Simon Maria Kubiena and Lea Marie Lembke and “Bohemia by the Sea” by Dominik Enzi. The Ö1 film editors curate and comment on selected Diagonale winning films from recent years for Flimmit. The festival package is rounded off with a selection of award-winning films from previous editions of the Diagonale, assembled in a separate collection, including works such as “Die Dohnal” by Sabine Derflinger and “We’re still staying” by Arash T. Riahi.
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