Erik Balling travel grant

The Erik Balling Travel Grant ( Danish : Erik Ballings Rejselegat ) is a Danish culture and film award that was launched in 2006 on the 100th anniversary of the Nordisk Film film company .

The award is given to a person who has made outstanding contributions to Danish film within a year through self-created works, work or other activities. Furthermore, the winner is said to have addressed a larger audience and particularly supported the popularity of Danish film, as the namesake Erik Balling achieved with his films.

For Erik Balling and his partner and colleague Henning Bahs, travel has been a source of creativity and inspiration over the many years of their professional life. The prize money is 75,000 Danish kroner (DKK) donated by the Nordisk Film Fonden . In the first year of the award, 2006, four people were awarded at the same time. From 2007, only one or two people were considered.

For the jury every year known persons or former winners of the Danish culture and the film industry are determined such. B. 2017 Mikael Christian Rieks as chairman, Ask Hasselbalch (last year's winner), Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (actress) and Mia Stensgaard (scenographer).

Since 2017, the Erik Balling Travel Grant has been awarded at the beginning of November, together with the two other Nordisk Film awards, the Ove Sprogøe Award and the Nordisk Film Award , at the joint celebration of Isbjørnen (The Polar Bear).

Award winners

• 2006: several people were awarded at the same time:
  • Film director and screenwriter Nikolaj Arcel
  • Film director and screenwriter Anders Østergaard
  • Writer and journalist Lise Nørgaard
  • Composer and pianist Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
• 2007: Cameraman and still photographer Dan Laustsen
• 2008: Director Adam Neutzsky-Wulff
• 2009: Screenwriter, film producer and director Åke Sandgren
• 2010: Film director Susanne Bier
• 2011: Film director and screenwriter Martin Zandvliet
• 2012: Film producers Rene Ezra and Tomas Radoor
• 2013: Film producers Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Louise Vesth
• 2014: Screenwriter Maya Ilsøe
• 2015: Screenwriter May el-Toukhy
• 2016: Director Ask Hasselbalch
• 2017: Film director and production designer Sabine Hviid
• 2018: Actors and screenwriters Ditte Hansen and Louise Mieritz
• 2019: VFX Supervisor Peter Hjorth

Web links

• Griegers Lohse: Instructor-debutant får legat på 50,000 kroner at Danmarks Radio , November 7th, 2015 (Danish).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erik Ballings Rejselegat. In: nordiskfilm.dk. Nordisk Film, accessed November 13, 2018 (Danish). 
2. ↑ Beskrivelse af Nordisk Film Prisen og Erik Ballings Rejselegat on nordiskfilm.dk ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ( Danish )
3. ↑ Nordisk Film danske uddeler priser til movie Talenter. In: altinget.dk. Altinget, November 10, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017 (Danish). 
4. ↑ ISBJØRNEN 2019 he's digging! Nordisk Film, November 7, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 (Danish).