The Egg

Comedy/drama 14 min
(original title Ägget)

A film by Gorki Glaser-Müller
SWEDEN 2003

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Synopsis:
Ivar, an eight-year-old boy and his grandfather don?t get along. Ivar is a vegetarian and grandpa thinks real men should eat meat. Ivar should at least be able to eat an egg, so Granpa sends him to by an one. But he crushes it and don?t dare to go back because he?s afraid of what grandpa might do to him. His desperate hunt for an egg creates completely new possibilities for their friendship.

Technical Info: Short, Colour, 14 min
Original format: DV-Cam
Screenings formats: Mini-DV, DV-cam, Beta SP Sound: Stereo
Videoprojection format: 4:3
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Awards:
2003
Best Film, Best screenplay,and Best actor at International Student Film by UNIACC, CHILE
2003
Grand Prix at International Student Film Festival, by ECU, URUGUAY.
2003
Special Mention BEST CONCEPT Sleepwalkers Int. Stud Film Festival, ESTONIA
2004
Special Price: Best Director , Guldklappan (SWE)
2004
Best Studentsfilm Guldklappan ( SWE)

Written and directed by: Gorki Glaser-Müller
Director of Photography: Ola Magnestam
Music: Lars Carlsson
Edited by: Orhan Demir, Gorki Glaser-Müller
Sound Design: Christian Holm

Produced by:
Erika Malmgren
+46 (0)736 98 32 89
erikamalmgren@yahoo.com
and
Anna Byvald
+46 (0)709 66 72 86
a_produktion@hotmail.com

Coproduced by:
School of Film directing Gothenburg University, Sweden
gunilla.burstedt@film.gu.se
and
Högskolan Trollhättan Uddevalla, Sweden, ww.film.gu.se

Full cast:
Ivar (Ivar Svensson)
Grandfather (Roland Jansson)
Mother (Sofie Ljungman)
Shop assistant (Celeste Jeronimo)


Festivals:
Gothenburg Film Festival, 2003 (SWE)
Jönköping Film Festival, 2003 (SWE)
International Student Film 2003 by UNIACC, (CHILE) Best movie, Best screenplay, Best actor.
LA Short Film Festival, 2003 (US)
Five Cities Film Festival, Nordisk Panorama, 2003 (SWE)
Flimmer, 2003 (SWE)
Sleepwalkers Int. Stud. Film Festival., 2003 (ESTONIA)
Special Mention BEST CONCEPT. Int. Student Film Festival 2003, by ECU (URUGUAY)
Grand Prix. Stockholm Int. Film Festival 2003 (SWE)
Slynsky Pez Int stud film fest. 2004 ( Poland)
BUFF, Int. Children and Youth Film Fest. 2004 ( SWE)
MFA Planet Europe Int F F. 2004 ( SPAIN)
Int. Shortfilm festival. Seoul 2004 (KOREA)
Int. Shortfilm Festtival Oberhoussen ( GERMANY)
Guldklappan 2004 ( SWE)
1:rst Price.Studentsfilms. And Special Price Best Director IKFF, Hamburg, 2004 Mo and Friesse,Int. Children Filmfest. ( GERMANY)
BASE Int. Stud. Film Fest.2004 (SPAIN)
Giffoni International Filmfestival 2004 ( ITALY)
VGIK Int. Short. Film festival 2004 (RUSSIA)
FEST, international short film festival Espinho 2005 (PORTUGAL)
NEXT GEN FILM FESTIVAL, Miami 2005 (USA)
INT Stud Film Festival WIENNA, 2005 (AUSTRIA)
IMAGINE FILM FESTIVAL, Tampa 2005 (USA)

Produced with the support of:
FILM I VÄST (Växthus)
Swedish video distribution by FILMCENTRUM