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 2024:
Stones and Words // Claps e peraulis
Stefano Giacomuzzi | IT 2023 | 30‘
“For the many artistic elements involved in the filmmaking, showing the poetic power of the cinematography in relation to the subjects and for the ability to connect humans beyond virtual interfaces giving value to actual life, the award goes to CLAPS E PERAULIS | STONES AND WORDS by Stefano Giacomuzzi.”
“A special mention goes to the programming of the festival, thus to our short film programmers Piera Nodari and Marina Pavido. Thank you for showing us all those short films carefully selected and put together in these three programs.”
Jury Members:
Amina Hanke
Filmmaker, Artist – AT
Mojca Pernat
Producer – SLO
Gabriella Ziraldo
Location Manager, Producer – IT
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 2024:
It’s Not Far Here
Timur Chopliani | GEORGIA 2023 | 21‘30‘‘
Also nominated: The Singers and Stones and Words
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 2024:
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.
