Also: Thomas Pluch screenplay awards for two productions with ORF participation
Vienna (OTS) – One day before the end of this year’s Diagonale, today, on Monday, April 8, 2024, in addition to the presentation of the Carl Mayer and Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards, the main awards ceremony of the Austrian Film Festival will also take place in Graz. The ORF is represented in the program of the Styrian film festival with a total of 27 productions. After the Franz Grabner Prize was awarded to the ORF co-production “Eugenie Schwarzwald:
Pioneer of Modernity” as Best TV Documentary on Saturday, April 6th, there were or are still more awards for six other productions with ORF participation. This year’s Thomas Pluch screenplay prizes were awarded to “Des Teufels Bad” and “Sleeping with a Tiger” in the morning. In the evening the main awards ceremony will take place at the Graz Orpheum. Eleven awards will be given to the feature and documentary films “The Klezmer Project”, “Club Zero”, “Vista Mare”, “Rickerl – Music is at Most a Hobby” and “Des”, which were co-financed by ORF as part of the film/television agreement “Devil’s Bath” and “Sleeping with a Tiger” were presented.
Diagonale Awards Ceremony 2024 – Overview of eleven awards for six productions co-financed by ORF:
Diagonale Prize Editing from the Film Editing Association aea / Best Artistic Montage Feature Film:
Leandro Koch and Javier Favot for “The Klezmer Project”
Diagonale Prize Sound Design from the Professional Association of Film Sound Creators in Austria – Filmton Austria / Best Sound Design Feature Film:
Matz Müller for “Des Teufels Bad”
Diagonale Prize Production Design from the Association of Austrian Film Designers VÖF / Best Production Design:
Martin Reiter for “Sleeping with a Tiger”
Diagonale Prize Costume Design from the Association of Austrian Film Designers VÖF / Best Costume Design:
Tanja Hausner for “Club Zero”
Diagonale Prize Sound Design from the Professional Association of Film Sound Creators in Austria – Filmton Austria / Best Sound Design Documentary:
Florian Kofler for “Vista Mare”
Diagonale Prize for image design from the Austrian Association. Cinematographers AAC / Best Cinematography Documentary:
Julia Gutweniger for “Vista Mare”
VAM Diagonale Prizes for exceptional production achievements:
Production company 2010entertainment.at for “Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby”
Production company coop99 for “Sleeping with a Tiger”
Diagonale acting awards in cooperation with the VdFS – collecting society of filmmakers for remarkable performances by Austrian actors in a Diagonale ’24 competition film:
Voodoo Jürgens for “Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby” Birgit Minichmayr for “Sleeping with a Tiger”
Diagonale Prize Best Film Composition Feature Film:
Markus Binder for “Club Zero”
Thomas Pluch screenplay awards for two productions with ORF participation
Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards 2024:
Main prize to Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala for “Des Teufels Bad” Special jury prize to Anja Salomonowitz for “Sleeping with a Tiger”
This year’s Franz Grabner Prize will be awarded on April 6th
Franz Grabner Prize 2024 for humanistic documentary filmmaking in the field of television and cinema to:
“Eugenie Schwarzwald: Pioneer of Modernity” by Alex Wieser – “Best TV Documentary”