THE HELLENIC RED CROSS AUDIENCE AWARDS

 

Hellenic Red Cross Audience Award for a film over 45’

 

i. A Greek production, accompanied by a cash prize of 4.000 € to the film "Birds In The Mire"

Directed by: Alinda Dimitriou

 

ii. A Foreign production, accompanied by a cash prize of 4.000 € to the film "As seen through these eyes"

Directed by: Hilary Helstein.

 

Hellenic Red Cross Audience Award for a film under 45’

 

i. A Greek production accompanied by a cash prize of 2.000 €, to the film "The Archelon Bubble"

Directed by: Eleftherios Fylaktos

 

ii. A foreign production accompanied by a cash prize of 2.000 €, to the film "City of cranes"

Directed by: Eva Weber.

 

THE FIPRESCI AWARDS

 

This year’s The FIRPESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) Jury consisted of:

Michel Euvrard, President (Canada)

Caroline Buck (Germany)

Matti Rämö (Finland)

Alex Leo Serban (Romania)

Vassilis Kehagias (Greece)

 

The FIPRESCI Awards go to:

 

i. A Greek production, to the film "The Lovers From Axos" Directed by: Nicos Ligouris

 

ii. A foreign producion, to the film "Be Like Others" Directed by: Tanaz Eshagian

 

MINISTRY OF MACEDONIA - THRACE AWARD

 

The Ministry of Macedonia - Thrace Award, for a film in the Portraits – Human Journeys section goes to the film "The Mirror and the Knife"

Directed by: Dimitris Vernikos. The award is accompanied by a cash prize of 6,000 €.

 

GREEK FILM CENTER AWARDS

 

The Greek Film Center, gives the following awards:

 

- Award for a medium length documentary, accompanied by a cash prize of 2000 € goes to the film "Etel Adnan Words in Exile"

Directed by: Vouvoula Skoura.

 

- Award for a medium length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 2000 € goes to the film "Alex"

Directed by: Alexandros Papanikolaou and Emily Yiannoukou.

 

- Award to a feature length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 3.000 € goes to the film "Birds in the Mire" Directed by: Alinda Dimitriou.

 

- Award to a feature length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 3.000 € goes to the film "The Third Takis" Directed by: Katerina Patroni.

 

- Award to a feature length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 3.000 € goes to the film "The Lovers of Axos"

Directed by: Nicos Ligouris.

 

- Award to a feature length documentary accompanied by a cash prize of 3.000 € goes to the film "The Mirror and the Knife"

Directed by: Dimitris Vernikos.

 

ERT3 (Greek Public Television) BROADCASTING AWARD

 

The Jury consisting of:

Nelli Zika – Tsemelegou – Greece (ERT 3 Administration Committee)

Yorgos Botsos – Greece (Director)

Phaedon Lazaridis – Greece (Head of Educational and Cultural Screenings Office)

 

The ERT3 Greek Public Television awards the best film in the Stories to Tell section to: "The lovers of Axos"

Directed by: Nikos Ligouris. The award includes one broadcast of the film on ERT3 which is equivalent to the sum of 3,000 €.

 

THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD

 

The Amnesty International Jury consisting of:

Stelios Kouloglou – Greece (Journalist)

Pavlos Nerantzis – Greece (Journalist)

Tassos Teloglou – Greece (Journalist)

Katerina Kalogera – Greece (Director, scriptwriter)

Nikolas Kominis - Greece (Photographer)

Irini Tsolaki – Greece (Member of the Board, Greek Section of Amnesty International)

and Hans Thoolen – Greece (President of the Martin Ennals Awards for Human Rights Defenders)

 

Awards the best film in the Human Rights section to: "The Price of Sugar"

Directed by: Bill Haney

 

THE WWF AWARD

 

The WWF Jury consisting of:

Konstantinos Liarikos – Greece (Head of Environmental Programs WWF Greece)

Yorgos Vellidis – Greece (Head of Communications, WWF Greece)

Kostas Livadas - Greece (Composer - lyricist)

 

Awards the best film in the Habitat section to: "About Water: People And Yellow Cans"

Directed by: Udo Maurer, Austria / Luxembourg, 2007

The International Jury composed of :

Lav Diaz, filmmaker (The Philippines)

Françoise Etchegaray, filmmaker (France)

Gulya Mirzoeva, filmmaker (France) Scam representative

Eugenio Polgovsky, filmmaker (Mexico)

Olaf Möller, critic (Germany)

 

Has awarded

 

- Cinéma du Réel Grand Prize with the support of the Procirep (8000€): "Holunderblüte"

Directed by: Volker Koepp (Germany)

Honorable mentions: "Wollis Paradies"

Directed by: Gerd Kroske (Germany)

and "San"

Directed by: Du Haibin (China)

 

- Scam International Award (4600€)

ex aequo

"Qian men Qian"

Directed by: Olivier Meys (Belgium, France)

"Invisible City"

Directed by: Tan Pin Pin (Singapore)

 

- Short Film Award (2500€): "Minot North Dakota"

Directed by: Cynthia Madansky and Angelika Brudniak (United States/Austria)

 

- Joris Ivens Award, attributed to a young filmmaker (2500€): "La Frontera Infinita"

Directed by: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda (Mexico)

 

The Young Jury composed of 5 highschool students and of filmmaker Pierre-Oscar Levy has awarded

 

- the Young Jury Award – Cinéma du Réel, with the support of the Centre Pompidou and of Paris Townhall (2500€): "L’Empreinte"

Directed by: Guillaume Bordier, France

 

The Young Jury wishes to attribute honorable mentions to "La Frontera infinita"

Directed by: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda (Mexico) and

"Podul de Flori"

Directed by: Thomas Ciulei (Romania)

 

The Librarian Committee, composed of

Julien Farenc, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)

Thierry Maillot, Bibliothèque Kateb Yacine (Grenoble)

Dominique Rousselet, Bibliothèque de Villepinte

And of filmmaker Vincent Martorana

 

has awarded

 

- the Library Award (6000€)

to "Podul de Flori"

Directed by: Thomas Ciulei (Romania)

 

- The Intangible Heritage Award (2500€): "Gugara"

Directed by: Jacek Naglowski and Andrzej Dybczak (Poland)

 

Honorable Mentions: "C’est beau les vacances"

Directed by: Anna Zisman (France) and

"Le Chamane son neveu et le capitaine"

Directed by: Pierre Boccanfuso (France)

 

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has awarded

 

- The Louis Marcorelles Award (purchase of rights, english and spanish subtitling, DVD edition, DVD promotion, mission abroad, equivalent to about 15000€)

to "Barcelone ou la mort"

Directed by: Idrissa Guiro (France)

 

The Festival selection committee has awarded

 

The Pierre and Yolande Perrault Grant, attributed to a young filmmaker (2500€)

to "Listener’s Tale"

Directed by: Arghya Basu (India)

[via wired]

Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You” (TechCrunch)

We learned yesterday that Warner Music, the third largest music label, is gunning for a $5/month music tax on U.S. residents.

The death throes of an industry that hasn’t figured out how to adapt. One thing that I never figured out about the music industry was it’s inability to be innovative around it’s business models. At the independent level, sure. But at the top-end, they are working on nearly the same model since the day the industry originated. For an industry that is all about “cool,” this is surprising. Their current set of challenges aren’t new. They are dating back twenty years! Remember “Home Taping is Killing Music?” The technology has been evolving for decades and rather than embrace it and figure out how to work with it, the music industry has fought it every step of the way until we reach this point: “Pay us in case you might want to pirate music.”

This is extortion and the ISPs need to band together to fight it.

As one of many artists who has made more money over the years from live performance than from selling records, the argument that we might be moving to a system where music would be free in order to draw people to live performances has resonated with me. I just came across the Stretta blog today and saw this:
The Stretta Procedure

The fact of the matter is Recorded Music and Live Music are separate art forms. Theyre lumped together in our minds for many reasons, but for people who push the idea that recorded music should be free, it is convenient to exclude all other types of musical expression that dont fit into their new world order business model, which, incidentally, benefits them the most Will we soon justify torrenting movies for free because theyre simply promotional material to drive awareness of actors, who should derive all their income from performing in stage plays?

I just really liked that…

All the votes have been counted and you have made your choice for your festival favourites. And the award goes to.....

 

Audience Choice Award for Best Feature: SHELTER (Jonah Markowitz - USA) - $5000 cash. Co-presented by MQFF and Volkswagen

 

Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary: I KNOW THAT I AM (Peyman Khosravi – Iran/Netherlands) - $2000 cash. Co-presented by MQFF and MQFF Life member David McCarthy.

 

Audience Choice Award for Best Australian Short Film: MY LAST TEN HOURS WITH YOU (Sophie Hyde) $1000 cash. Co-presented by MQFF and Karen Russell of Step Right Up.

 

Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film: PAGES OF A GIRL (Paginas de Menina) (Monica Pallazzo - Brazil) $500 cash.

 

Selector’s Choice Award for Best Film In Celluloid Casserole: LOVE IS BLUE (Emily Brindal - Australia) - $500 cash.

The City of Malmö´s Children and Young People´s Film Award:

 

"The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat"

(Titanics ti liv.) Norway 2007. Director: Grethe Bøe.

 

Jury 2008:

Leontine Petit, Producer, Lemming Film, The Netherlands

Thomas Hailer, Festivaldirector Berlinale Generation, Berlin International Film Festival, Germany

Lynn Ljungberg, kultur- och fritids kommunalråd, Malmö Kulturnämnd

Bengt Hall, Head of the Culture Affaires

Cornelia Röjner, Member of the Culture Board of Malmö

 

Award: 5 500 EURO och statuette made by Martin Jönsson.

 

Sydsvenskan and BUFF's Honorary Award:

Each year BUFF and Sydsvenskan award a person or an organisation who´s made great efforts for Children- and Young People´s Film.

 

Award winner:

Lennart and Ylva Li Gustafsson

 

Prize Amount: 3 900 EURO and a beautiful iron filmstrip made by Håkon Garpestad.

 

Jury 2008:

Johan Strömbeck and Emma Leijnse, Sydsvenskan, Andreas Hoffsten, Svenska Filminstitutet,

Krister Kjellström and Cecilia Grubb, BUFF.

 

The Film Factory for Young People and BUFF's Youth Jury Award:

 

"Keith"

USA 2006. Director: Todd Kessler.

 

Prize Award: Vase of glass

 

Jury 2008:

Class 8A from the Oxievångs school in Malmö.

 

The Swedish Church Award:

 

"Fighter"

Denmark 2007. Director: Natasha Arthy.

 

Jury 2008:

Janne Rantala, documentary filmmaker, Malmö

Fredrik Holmberg, filmteacher, Göteborg

Charlotta Rosman Nissen, parish pedagogue, Malmö

Lena Sjöstrand, priest, Lund

 

The award is 5 500 EURO.

 

County Council of Skåne Short Film Award:

 

"Doggie"

Koest. The Netherlands 2007. Director: Simone van Dusseldorp

 

Jury 2008:

Filippa Frejd, director, Malmö

Mats Olof Olsson, director, Stockholm

Charlotte Wachtmeister, Chairman of the Culture Board of Culture Skåne

Claes Göran Jönsson, Executive Chairman Culture Board of Culture Skåne

Chris Marschall, Head of Culture, Culture Skåne

 

Prize Amount: 2 800 EURO

Grand Award: "In Prison my whole life"

by Marc Evans

exaequo

"Suffering and Smiling"

by Dan Ollman

 

Special prize of the Jury: "Faces"

by Gmax

 

The OMCT Award: "Calle Santa Fe"

by Carmen Castillo

 

The Junior Jury Award: "Suffering and Smiling"

by: Dan Ollman

NEW YORK INT’L CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2008 AWARD WINNERS AT

 

Presented March 16, 2008 at the DGA Theater

2008 Awards Host: Adam Gopnik

2008 Jury: Susan Sarandon, Gus Van Sant, James Schamus, Matthew Modine, Evan Shapiro, Rob Minkoff, Adam Gopnik, Lynne McVeigh

 

NYICFF 2008 Winners:

 

NYICFF Grand Prize: "Knuffle Bunny"

Directed by: Maciek Albrecht/Mo Willems, USA

 

NYICFF Jury Award: "Paradise"

Directed by: Jesse Rosensweet, Canada

 

Audience Awards- Ages 3-6: "Knuffle Bunny"

Directed by: Maciek Albrecht/Mo Willems, USA

 

Audience Awards- Ages 5-10: "Crank Balls"

Directed by: Devin Bell, USA & Zhiharka, Oleg Uzinov, Russia

 

Audience Awards- Ages 8-14 – "Black & White"

Directed by: Jon Izen, Canada

 

Audience Awards- Ages 12-18 – "Wolf Daddy"

Directed by: Chang Hyung-Yun, South Korea

 

Audience Awards- Parents’ Choice – "Knuffle Bunny"

Directed by: Maciek Albrecht/Mo Willems, USA

 

HSBC Environmental Award – "Boo Roo"

Directed by: Gwon Mi-Jeong, South Korea

 

New York, NY, March 17, 2008 – The 2008 New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) concluded another sold-out year on Sunday, March 16th with the NYICFF Awards “Best of the Fest” and Closing Night Gala. The winners were determined by the NYICFF Jury and audience voting throughout the festival. The 2008 NYICFF Jury included Academy Award® winning actress Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), Academy Award® nominated director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Paranoid Park), Academy Award® nominated filmmaker James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain), actor Matthew Modine (Birdy, “Weeds”), the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik, Professor of Children’s Media at NYU, Lynne McVeigh, director Rob Minkoff (The Lion King) and Evan Shapiro, EVP and General Manager of The Independent Film Channel (IFC).

The GreenhouseFX Best Animation Award: "The Tale of How"

Directed by: The Blackheart Gang

Best Cinematography Award: "Tanghi Argentini"

Directed by: Frank Van den Eeden

 

Best Documentary Award: "Indestructible"

Directed by: Ben Byer & Rebeccah Rush

 

The Byron At Byron Best Environmental Film Award: "Saving Luna"

Directed by:Suzanne Chisholm & Michael Parfit

 

The Frontline Best Experimental Film Award: "Tyger" Directed by: Guilherme Marcondes

 

The Bay FM Best Byron Bay Filmmaker Award: Mick Waters for "Believe"

 

BBFF08 Honorable Mention: "To Touch the Soul"

Directed by: Ryan Goble

Produced by: Teresa Hagen

 

The Splendour in the Grass Best Short Film Award: "Tanghi Argentini" -

Directed by: Guido Thys & Anja Daelemans

 

Best Surf Film Award: "Sliding Liberia"

Directed by: Britton Cailouette & Nicholai Lidow

 

The SAE Institute Best Dramatic Feature Award: "Heartlines"

Directed by: Angus Gibson & Mariki Pretourius

 

The Avid Technology 2008 Best Young Filmmaker Award Lav Bodnaruk: "The Sound of Cry"(Prod) & "The Pain of the Macho" (Dir)

 

The Southern Cross University Best Film Award: "Laya Project"