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My Brother Chases Dinosaurs, My Extraordinary Summer with Tess and Rocca Changes the World are vying for the award, to be decided by audiences of 12- to 14-year-olds across Europe. The European Film Academy (Efa) announced the three nominees for the 2020 Efa Young Audience Award: Stefano Cipani's My Brother Chases Dinosaurs (Italy/Spain), Steven Wouterlood's My Extraordinary Summer with Tess (Netherlands/Germany) and Katja Benrath's Rocca Changes the World (Germany). The nominations were again chosen in a two-step procedure. An international committee consisting of Efa Board Member Vanessa Henneman (Netherlands) and experts Gonçalo Galvão Teles (director/Portugal), Jacek Rembiś (screenwriter/Poland), Joanna Van Der Meer (BFI/UK) and Nora Lakos pre-selected six films. A jury of 13-to-14-year-old former Yaa participants Edoardo from Turin (Italy), Luna from Vienna (Austria), Raluca from Cluj (Romania), Rannveig from Reykjavik (Iceland) and Štefan from Izola (Slovenia) then watched these six films and chose the.

Around 25% will be invested in projects by new talents.

Warner Bros Germany is to invest €3m over the next three years in the development and production of feature films originating from or shot in the German region of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein in the first deal of its kind between a German regional fund and a Us major.

At least 25% of each annual €1m will be earmarked for projects by up-and-coming filmmakers to boost talent development in the region.

The deal was signed today (January 24) between Hamburg-based Warner Bros Entertainment and the regional film fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Ffhsh)

The financial...