The Risto Jarva Award ( fi, Risto Jarva -palkinto) is an annual film industry award for new Finnish short films named after the Finnish filmmaker

Risto Jarva Risto Antero Jarva (15 July 1934 – 16 December 1977) was a Finnish filmmaker. Jarva usually approached his long films and short documentary films from some social problem and from one or more possible ways to solve it. Such problems included t ...

. The winner is chosen by a jury of no more than three members that changes every year. Jury members are selected by the

Finnish Film Foundation The Finnish Film Foundation ( fi, Suomen elokuvasäätiö, sv, Finlands filmstiftelse) is an independent foundation with the task of supporting and developing Finnish film production, distribution and exhibition. It is supervised by the Departmen ...

, which has funded and presented the award at the

Tampere Film Festival The Tampere Film Festival ( fi, Tampereen elokuvajuhlat) is a short film festival held every March, mostly at the Finnkino Plevna movie theatre, in Tampere, Finland. It is accredited by the film producers' society FIAPF, and together with the shor ...

since 1979.

Winners

References

External links

Tampere Film Festival

List of winners
{{in lang, fi Awards established in 1979 Finnish film awards