Christoph Rainer
RBC and the Toronto International Film Festival announced the winners of the 2013 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition. Christoph Rainer, Vienna, Austria is the national winner and received $20,000 prize. In Christoph Rainer’s film REQUIEM FOR A ROBOT, Rob, a worn out robot with a corrupt memory, drowns his sorrows of his ‘screwed’ existence in alcohol and asks himself the essential question: what did he do wrong?
NATIONAL WINNER: $20,000
Christoph Rainer, Vienna, Austria
REQUIEM FOR A ROBOT, Christophe Rainer
REQUIEM FOR A ROBOT – Tortured by a recurring nightmare, an alcoholic robot has nothing left but a corrupt memory. In order to find out what has happened, he returns to his creator.
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HONOURABLE MENTIONS: $5,000 each
Dan Popa, Montreal, Canada
TALES OF SANTA FE – A traveler shares his impressions of a city through a photographic journey into his fragmented past.
Kevan Funk, Vancouver, Canada
DESTROYER – A young athlete struggles with the weight of witnessing his fellow teammates commit an act of violence.
Each year, participants are provided a theme to guide their creative process and the theme for 2013 was Memory. The national winner and honourable mentions were selected from 16 submissions and then narrowed to five finalists by the jury panel. The other finalists were Rafael Balulu (Israel) and Mako Kamitsuna (U.S.).
“These winning films demonstrate the work of unique, emerging voices in filmmaking,” said Piers Handling, director and CEO, TIFF. “The Emerging Filmmakers Competition is a platform to share these voices and we are thrilled to partner with RBC once again on this initiative.”
“We look forward to seeing how up-and-coming filmmakers interpret, define and express the theme each year,” said Jennifer Tory, RBC’s regional president for Greater Toronto. “The winning films chosen this year represent the talent and creativity that make us proud to support TIFF and the RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition.”
The RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition is part of Talent Lab, a four-day intensive program at the Toronto International Film Festival that offers artistic development opportunities to a select group of emerging Canadian and international filmmakers.
Each filmmaker is provided with $500 cash to develop a one-to-five minute short film for the competition.