This year’s EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD – Prix EURIMAGES, an award acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry, goes to Italian producer Andrea Occhipinti.
Born in Rome, Andrea Occhipinti is the founder of Lucky Red who has, over the past 28 years, successfully produced and distributed some of the best international independent production and who has discovered exciting new talent and helped to launch some great careers.
Since 1987 Andrea Occhipinti has theatrically distributed over 250 titles and produced over 40 films among which many have been supported by Eurimages: SONETAULA by Salvatore Mereu, THE FRONT LINE by Renato de Maria, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Paolo Sorrentino and AZUR & ASMAR by Michel Ocelot as well as EFA winners like THE KID WITH A BIKE by the Dardenne brothers (European Screenwriter 2011), THE WHITE RIBBON by Michael Haneke (European Film, Director and Screenwriter 2010 and Golden Palm in Cannes 2009), IL DIVO, also by Paolo Sorrentino (European Actor 2008), and THE SEA INSIDE by Alejandro Amenábar (European Director & Actor 2004 and Best Foreign Language Film at the US Academy Awards 2005), among many other successful co-productions.
Lucky Red has been producing and distributing the films of directors from all over the world such as Lars Von Trier, Patrice Leconte, Wong Kar-Wai, Park Chan-Wook, Peter Mullan, Luc Jacquet, François Ozon, Gurinder Chadha, Hayao Miyazaki, Agnès Jaoui, Jacques Perrin, Robert Altman, Frank Oz, Atom Egoyan – just to name a few.
The EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD – Prix EURIMAGES will be presented during the European Film Awards Ceremony in Berlin on Saturday, 12 December 2015.
Berlin and Strasbourg, 17 November 2015
