Swiss Film Award

The Swiss Film Prize (French Prix du cinéma suisse, Italian Premio del cinema svizzero, Romansh Premi dal film- svizzer ) was awarded for the first time in 1998 at the Solothurn Film Festival. Since then, he has been awarded every year in January during the film days Solothurn. Overall, in the past were 600,000 Swiss francs in six categories, prize money available. Beginning of March 2009 was the first time a TV gala on Swiss TV with alignment of the Federal Office of Culture (FOC ) and the newly founded Swiss Film Academy instead. As a prize trophy acts of " Quartz", a sculpture from the same sounding mineral that the presented until then "View Finder" replaced in 2008. The award has since been transformed into each edition of designers. Thus, most recently in 2009 by Alfredo Häberli.

The Swiss Film Prize to distinguished filmmakers from Switzerland for her outstanding films. The jury is composed of various individuals from the fields of culture, film and media. The jury will be filled each year. The nominations will be determined by a nine -member commission, which is elected by the Federal Department of the Interior. Open to Swiss films which were shown in the current year on various major film festivals (domestic and foreign ).

The award of the Film Prize was until 2008 directed by the Federal Office of Culture, together with its partner Swiss Films, SRG SSR idée suisse and the three Swiss Solothurn Film Festival, Locarno and Nyon. In March 2009, the Swiss Film Prize was first awarded during a televised gala at the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne in ten categories. For this, the Swiss Film Academy was founded end of July 2008 under the direction of filmmaker Fredi M. Murer, which should take care of the organization of the nomination process. After differences in legal and financial matters with the Federal Office of Culture, the nominations are made by the Swiss Film Academy and pronounced as in previous years by a nine -member commission in 2009. For 2010, presented the BAK prospect to leave the film full price of the Swiss Film Academy. This rejected the academy from, however, as these would then be responsible for ensuring to generate the necessary resources. For 2009, the Academy had been prepared to make only 30 percent of its own funds for the alignment of the Swiss Film Prize.

As of 2013, the Federal Office of Culture took over full responsibility for the organization of the Swiss Film Prize, in collaboration with the SRG SSR. For the future direction and Bern, competed together and the cities of Geneva and Zurich and Lausanne and Lucerne. On 30 March 2012, the Swiss federal authorities announced on admin.ch that the Film Award in Geneva and Zurich is awarded.

Swiss Film Award

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