Nothing Personal scoops nomination for EFA Discovery Award
The IFB funded feature NOTHING PERSONAL directed by Urszula Antoniak and starring Stephen Rea has been nominationed for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY - Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.Nothing Personal, which shot on location in Connemara and also stars Dutch actress Lotte Verbeek, tells the tale of Anne (Verbeek), a Dutch woman who hits the road to escape a personal grief. Hitching her way to the west coast of Ireland, she happens upon an isolated farm belonging to Martin (Rea). When he offers Anne work on the farm in exchange for food and shelter, she agrees on condition there will be no questions, no small talk between them. In time, despite their ardent desire not to be shackled by dependence on another person, they develop a unique relationship that awakens both of them to the real value of love.
The film has been nominated along with La Doppia Ora (Italy), Eu Can Vreau sa Fluier, Fluier (Romania), Die Fermde (Germany) and Lebanon (Israel/Germany/France) by a committee comprising of members of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. The films will now be made available to all 2,300 members of the European Film Academy who will vote for the winner, which will be announced at the 23rd European Film Awards on the 4th December in Talinn, Estonia.
Nothing Personal was co-produced by Macdara Kelleher and Morgan Bushe for Fastnet Films (Ireland) with funding from the Irish Film Board and produced through Amsterdam-based Rinkel Film & TV in cooperation with VPRO and Family Affair Films.
The European Film Awards 2010 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and EFA Productions gGmbH with the support of European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011, Estonian Ministry of Culture, the City of Tallinn, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Enterprise Estonia, Estonian Public Broadcasting, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and BDG.