K3 Film Awards
The K3 Film Festival annually awards the best films with prizes totalling € 7,300.
Short films (less than 30 minutes long) and feature films (with a running time longer than 70 minutes) are in competition. Medium films (between 30 and 70 minutes long) can often be seen in special screenings. This allows these gems not to be missed.
What all competitors have in common is that they must come from one of the 3-cultural areas of Carinthia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Slovenia. Thus:
- Director’s place of birth or residence
- Filming location
- Support from a public institution in one of these three regions.
SHORT FILM AWARDS
Jury Award € 1,500
The jury, consisting of different representatives from the film industry within the 3 regions, awards the prize worth € 1,500 and the K3 trophy.
JURY SHORT FILM AWARD WINNER 2023:
Granny’s Sexual Life
Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard | SLO 2021 | 13‘38
Jury Members
Annemarie Pilgram, born in 1973, studied der German Studies und Media Communication. Text worker, dramaturge, since 2002 producer of fictional films and documentaries.
Davide Salucci, born in Triest to an Austrian mother and Italian father. Studied History and Philosophy at the University of Triest. Graduated in Directory from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. ‚Artificial Truth‘ is his first feature-length film.
Lorenzo del Porto, former documentary filmmaker and script consultant. Currently working between film criticism, selling vinyls and breeding black cats.
Audience Award € 800
K3 is probably the only film festival worldwide where the audience becomes a jury, in fact this award is decided in a freely accessible and equal discussion!
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS 2023:
Siegfried Ortner | A 2023 | 15‘41‘‘
It is open-hearted and one can argue bluntly for their favourite, thereby, negotiating the winning film. The audience become jurors, who have to convince each other, in order to reach a decision. Meanwhile, the filmmakers become silent observers of the immediate and spontaneous reactions that their films evoke. Living film culture par excellence!
FEATURE FILM AWARD
This award, worth € 5,000, is intended to enable a theatrical release in Austria or to provide financial support. The aim of the prize is to make “festival’s films” available also in regular cinemas and to expand exploitation possibilities for film-makers.
The prize money includes € 1,000 in kind from CinePostproduction.
FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNER 2023:
Jury members
Financial support can make a theatrical release easier. Distributors can make it possible, but ultimately, it is up to the individual cinemas to include a film in their program. The feature film jury is therefore made up of programmers from Austrian cinemas; supplemented by an online survey of selected cinema operators.
