And the nominees for the TAA 2011 are...

On Friday 15 July 2011, the Rotterdam exhibition space TENT is organizing a festive edition of the TAA: the annual competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animations from all the art academies in the Netherlands. In addition to students from the Dutch art academies, students from Belgium and Luxembourg are also competing for the highly coveted prize for graduating audiovisual talent. This week TENT announces the nominees for the TAA 2011.

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Over the past few weeks, a team of professionals from the art, and film world have visited the graduation exhibitions of the Dutch art academies, in search of talent. The scouts nominated eleven works by Dutch students for the TAA 2011. This year, in addition to the Dutch talent, students from Belgium and Luxembourg also have a chance to win an award: the TAA For Best Foreign Film.

The nominees for the TAA 2011 are:
-Sarah Bijlsma – ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem
-Dóra Hargitai – AKV St. Joost, s’Hertogenbosch
-Charlotte Lagro – Academie Beeldende Kunsten, Maastricht
-Johannes Langkamp – ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Enschede
-Christine Maas – Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
-Marleen Özgür & Emmanuel Adjei – Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht
-Sunil Sital – Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam
-Willem Sluyterman van Loo – Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague
-Lex Vesseur – Academie Minerva, Groningen
-Auke de Vries – AKV St. Joost, Breda
-Idzi Wagemans – Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam

The nominees for the TAA for Best Foreign Film 2011 are:
-Michiel Bollen – Media, Arts, Design Faculty, Genk, Belgium
-Ruben Desiere – Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
-Robert Frankle – Luxembourg
-Quinten Leon – Sint Lukas, Brussels, Belgium
-Kate Maveau – Rits Erasmus Hogeschool Brussels, Belgium