blog.daazo.com » Film Festival http://blog.daazo.com News, Reviews, unofficial Opinions around the world of Daazo Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Cinéfondation Prizes 2010 http://blog.daazo.com/2010/05/23/cinefondation-prizes-2010/ http://blog.daazo.com/2010/05/23/cinefondation-prizes-2010/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 15:28:20 +0000 Zoltan http://blog.daazo.com/?p=330 This year the Cinéfondation Selection showed 13 student films coming from Asia, Europe, North and South America.
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided by Atom Egoyan, composed of film directors Carlos Diegues and Marc Recha and actresses Emmanuelle Devos and Dinara Droukarova, has awarded the Cinéfondation prizes during a ceremony in the Buñuel Theatre.

First Prize:
TAULUKAUPPIAAT (The Painting Sellers)
directed by Juho Kuosmanen
Aalto University, Finland

Second Prize:
COUCOU-LES-NUAGES (Anywhere Out of the World)
directed by Vincent Cardona
La fémis, France

Third Prize (joint winners):
HINKERORT ZORASUNE (The Fifth Column)
directed by Vatche Boulghourjian
NYU, United States

JA VEĆ JESAM SVE ONO ŠTO ŽELIM DA IMAM
(I Already Am Everything I Want to Have)
directed by Dane Komljen
FDU, Serbia

“The jury was extremely impressed with the quality of the selection, particularly the excellence of the directors’ work with actors. All the films strove to find unique ways of harnessing cinematographic vision with delicate and often haunting performances.” Atom Egoyan

The awarded films will receive 15 000 € for the First Prize, 11 250 € for the Second Prize and 7 500 € for the Third Prize.
The 13 competing films have been selected among over 1500 submitted.

Films of directors from previous Cinéfondation Selections are present in different sections of the Festival: Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project by Kornél Mundruczó in Competition, Pál Adrienn by Ágnes Kocsis at Un Certain Regard, All Good Children by Alicia Duffy at the Directors’ Fortnight and Cynthia todavia tiene las llaves by Gonzalo Tobal at the Critic’s Week.
The Cinéfondation Selection, created in 1998, is proud to have accompanied the work and development of these new talents of international cinema.

]]> http://blog.daazo.com/2010/05/23/cinefondation-prizes-2010/feed/ 0 Winners of Clermont-Ferrand http://blog.daazo.com/2010/02/10/winners-of-clermont-ferrand/ http://blog.daazo.com/2010/02/10/winners-of-clermont-ferrand/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:36:45 +0000 Zoltan http://blog.daazo.com/?p=305 Since Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival is a true home of short films and it has a very prestigious competition, the winners of the festival are giving us a good overview of the landscape of the actual short film industry.

However the winners can be hardly seen by a wide audience, you will might catch them on some other short film festivals.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

GRAND PRIX
BLUE SOFA
de Lara Fremder, Giuseppe Baresi, Pippo Delbono
Italie

PRIX SPÉCIAL DU JURY
ELLA
de Hanne Larsen
Norvège

PRIX DU PUBLIC
SINNA MAN (L’homme en colère)
d’Anita Killi
Norvège

PRIX DE LA JEUNESSE
EFECTO DOMINO (Effet domino)
de Gabriel Gauchet
Cuba, Allemagne

PRIX CANAL+
GLENN OWEN DODDS
de Frazer Bailey
Australie

PRIX DES MÉDIATHÈQUES
I LOVE LUCI (J’aime Luci)
de Colin Kennedy
Royaume-Uni, Danemark

PRIX DE LA PRESSE INTERNATIONAL SFR
ON THE RUN WITH ABDUL (En cavale avec Abdul)
de David Lalé, James Newton et Kristian Hove
Royaume-Uni

]]> http://blog.daazo.com/2010/02/10/winners-of-clermont-ferrand/feed/ 0 Festival deadlines in February 2010 http://blog.daazo.com/2010/02/01/festival-deadlines-in-februray-2010/ http://blog.daazo.com/2010/02/01/festival-deadlines-in-februray-2010/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:13:20 +0000 Zoltan http://blog.daazo.com/?p=301 It is never too late to apply to these festivals. All have a deadline this month. Here we have our suggestions for February.

Krakow Film Festival
Krakow, Poland
Entries must be received by 11th Feb 2010

Krakow FF promotes the documentary, animated and short films. More than 350 films are presented during KFF every year. In 2007 a new competition section was held – for feature-length documentary films.

International ShortFilmFestival Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Entries must be received by 15th Feb 2010

In 1985 the festival started under the title No Budget Festival as a small festival that mainly screened super 8 films. Over the years it grew bigger and bigger and is nowadays one of the most important shortfilm festivals in Europe that lures everyyear up to 14 000 spectators into the word of short films.

Funchal International Film Festival – Madeira island
Funchal, Portugal
Entries must be received by 19th Feb 2010

The Festival will explore new trends in art film; main category is the International Official Competitive Section for fiction features and shorts produced between 2008 and 2009.

Titanic Film Festival
Budapest, Hungary
Entries must be received by 20th Feb 2010

The aim of the Festival is to present a wide variety of daringly new, original and trend-breaking motion pictures from every possible corner of the world, be it dark comedies, emotionally charged dramas, genre films, or documentaries.

Munich International Short Film Festival
Munich, Germany
Entries must be received by 28th Feb 2010

MUNICH INTERNATIONAL showcases a variety of talent from all over the world by presenting new ideas, new stories, new visions, new techniques, new styles and new trends in filmmaking. These short films offer the rare opportunity to view a medium that encourages innovation and originality in filmmaking, thus giving something very special and enriching to the viewer.

Maremetraggio
Trieste, Italy
Entries must be received by 28th Feb 2010

The Festival main section, Maremetraggio, is a “Best of the Best” of European shorts, where only the winners of other Festival in the previous year can be selected. It has also the CEI prize for shorts from eastern European countries and a debut work section only for Italian movies.

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Stort’ – by Joris Hoebe, The Netherlands

Silent Consent - by Alessandro Bianco, Italy

Tripe and Onions – by Márton Szirmai, Hungary

Brei Brumm Bumm (Mash goes Splash) – by Elise Klement, Germany

A film From my Parish – by Tony Donoghue, Ireland

For All the Tea in England – Kerry Mcleod, UK

Pogacha – by Balint Mark Turi, Hungary

Pasta Day – by Elizabeth Rocha Salgado, The Netherlands

Fish Eye – by Margot Buff, Czech Republic

Semolina Halva – by Ezgi Kaplan, Turkey

Cum Pane – by Anne Linder, Sweden

Tropezones – by David Macian & Eduardo Molinari, Spain

Devouring Reality – Melissa Suarez del Real, Spain

Sa Cage – by Luz Diaz, Belguim

The Market – by Ana Husman, Croatia

Cravings – by Andreas Lindergard, Sweden

Ma petite cuisine – by Maryline Poux, France

La Torta – by Stefan Archetti, Italy

Mc Russia – by Andrei Tanase, Georgy Groshkov & Florian Krebs (Romania, Bulgaria and Germany)

Apple & Ei – by Ahmet Tas, Germany

Congratulation! For more information about the Matter of Taste project visit its official website: www.matteroftaste.eu

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The Golden Dragon to the film “Pizza in Auschwitz” /“Pizza be Auschwitz” directed by Moshe Zimerman (Israel) for a complex and thought provoking portrayal of a family journey into one man’s personal tragedy and historical survival.

The Silver Dragon for the Director of the Best Documentary Film to the film “Poste Restante” directed by Marcel Łoziński (Poland)

The Silver Dragon for the Director of the Best Animated Film to the film “Ten” /“Dix” directed by BIF (Fabrice le Nezet, Francois Roisin, Jules Janaud), France

The Silver Dragon for the Director of the Best Fiction Film to the film “Leaving” directed by Richard Penfold, Samuel Hearn (United Kingdom)

The EFA Nomination Krakow 2009  – a nomination for the European Film Award in the short film category to the film “Poste Restante” directed by Marcel Łoziński (Poland)

The Special Mention to the films:

“Wagah”, directed by Supriyo Sen (Germany)

“Hugo Rey y su Doncella” (“Hugo King and his Damsel”), directed by Franco do Peña (Poland/Venezuela)

“Shesh Vahesti Dakot Betel Aviv”/ “Six and Half Minutes in Tel Aviv” directed by Mirey Brantz (Israel),

The FIPRESCI (International Film Critics) Jury at 49th Krakow Film Festival consisting of: Vladimir Ignatovski (Bulgaria), Saskia Legein (The Netherlands), Tadeusz Szczepański (Poland) decided to award the film “Poste restante” directed by Marcel Łoziński (Poland).

Having watched all the competitive films the FICC (International Federation of Film Discussion Clubs) Jury at 49th Krakow Film Festival consisting of: Marta Chwałek (Poland), Carl Henrik Eilertsen (Norway) i Andrea Pócsik (Hungary) has decided to grant the Don Quichote Award to the film “Goleshovo” directed by Ilian Metev (Bulgaria/United Kingdom). The director’s easy approach on this seemingly simple subject gives the audience the opportunity to get involved in the efforts of a disappearing community, sharing with the viewers their irony, strength and life wisdom in a deliberating way.

Special mention goes to the short fiction film titled “Leaving”, directed by Richard Penfold and Sam Hearn (United Kingdom).

The Student Jury consisting of: Grzegorz Lis, Michał Gulik, Anna Fac-Biedziuk has decided to award ex equo the films: „My amulet” directed by Leah Thorn (United Kingdom ) for a brave, fresh and  artistic interference into political correctness and “Skhizein” directed by Jérémy Clapin (France) for a subtle and brilliant study of a misfit.

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