Documentary Films Competitions!
PLUS CAMERIMAGE PRESENTS DOCUMENTARY FILMS COMPETITION
Documentary Films Competition "Image of the World - World in Images"
is organized in collaboration with
For this year’s Documentary Films Competition, held within the Documentary Films Section of 'Image of the World - World in Images' under the patronage of Discovery Networks Central Europe,
the entries were accepted for two separate categories: feature-lenght
and short. The decision on which movie will be awarded the Grand Prix - the Golden Frog
will be made during the Festival by an international jury, separate for
each category. Furthermore, independently from the jury, the patron of
the Documentary Films Section will grant the statuettes of Discovery Networks Central Europe.
From November 27th to December 4th in Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz
the fans of documentaries will have a chance to see the movies screened
at IDFA, Silverdocs, Berlinare and Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto.
For the Documentary Films Competition we have lined up 12 feature-length
documentaries and 22 short ones.
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILMS COMPETITION
Feature documentaries will be judged by:
- Jay Rosenblatt (Jury Chairman) , director, editor, producer, Human Remains, Darkness of Day, King of the Jews, The Smell of Burning Ants
- Midge Costin, sound editor Crimson Tide, The Rock, Armageddon, Con Air, Professor in the Art of Dialogue and Sound Editing at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
- Nancy Schreiber, cinematographer, Dead Beat, The Celluloid Closet, November
- Lawrence Grobel, writer, author of biographies of Marlon Brando, Truman Capote and others, lecturer at UCLA in Los Angeles
- Michael Chapman, cinematographer, Raging Bull, The Fugitive, Taxi Driver
- Marcin Koszałka, cinematographer, scriptwriter Reverse, Till It Hurts, The Welts, at this year’s Plus Camerimage he’ll present The Declaration of Immortality
- Barbara Bilińska, Channel Director Poland, Discovery Networks Central Europe
Below you will find the list of the nominees in this category:
AT THE EDGE OF RUSSIA
director: Michał Marczak
cinematographer: Radosław Ładczuk
country: Poland
year: 2010
CONTACT
director: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
cinematographer: Bentley Dean
country: Australia
year: 2009
LA MACHINA
director: Thierry Paladino
cinematographer: Michał Marczak, Marcin Sauter
country: Poland, France
year: 2010
LETTERS FROM THE DESERT (EULOGY TO SLOWNESS)
director: Michela Occhipinti
cinematographer: Pau Mirabet
country: Italy
year: 2010
LIVES OF THE ARTISTS FOLLOW ME DOWN
director: Ross Cairns
cinematographer: Daniel Trapp
country: UK
year: 2010
MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN
director: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson
cinematographer: Andrew Thompson
country: UK
year: 2009
NORTH FROM CALABRIA
director: Marcin Sauter
cinematographer: Łukasz Gutt, Radosław Ładczuk
country: Poland
year: 2009
OATH, THE
director: Laura Poitras
cinematographer: Kirsten Johnson, Laura Poitras
country: USA
year: 2010
RED CHAPEL, THE
director: Mads Brügger
cinematographer: René Johannsen
country: Denmark
year: 2009
RESTREPO
director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
cinematographer: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
country: USA
year: 2009
SUMMER PASTURE
director: Lynn True, Nelson Walker III
cinematographer: Nelson Walker III
country: Tibet
year: 2010
THIS WAY OF LIFE
director: Thomas Burstyn
cinematographer: Thomas Burstyn
country: New Zeland
year: 2009
SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS COMPETITION
Short documentaries will be judged by:
- Robert Epstein (Jury Chairman), director, screenwriter, producer, The Celluloid Closet, The Times of Harvey Milk, Howl, Paragraf 175, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- Ed Lachman, cinematographer, director, Howl, Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, Far from Heaven
- Robert Fischer, director, writer, author of biographies of Hitchcock, Welles, David Lynch, Jean-Pierre Melville, Bresson, Fassbinder
- Małgorzata Szumowska, director, producer, screenwriter, 33 Scenes from life, Happy Man, Siedem lekcji miłości, There Is Nothing To Be Afraid
- Magdalena Szczawińska, On-Air Director, Discovery Networks Central Europe
- Anastas Michos cinematographer, Duplex, The Education of Little Tree, Man on the Moon, Mona Lisa Smile
- Vilmos Zsigmond cinematographer, The Deer Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Deliverance
The list of competition films:
ALBERT'S WINTER
director: Andreas Koefoed
cinematographer: Niels Thastum
country: Denmark
year: 2009
ARSY-VERSY
director: Miro Remo
cinematographer: Jaro Valko
country: Slovakia
year: 2009
CORRIDOR, THE
director: David Procter
cinematographer: David Procter
country: UK
year: 2010
DECLARATION OF IMMORTALITY, THE
director: Marcin Koszałka
cinematographer: Marcin Koszałka
country: Poland
year: 2010
ERASING THE LINES
director: Maya-Marlangeon Aharoni
cinematographer: Einav Giat
country: Israel
year: 2010
GUANAPE SUR
director: János Richter
cinematographer: Jakob Stark
country: Italy
year: 2010
HOLDING STILL
director: Florian Riegel
cinematographer: Luciano Cervio
country: Germany
year: 2010
HOMELESS
director: Ditte Haarløv Johnsen
cinematographer: Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, Minka Jakerson
country: Denmark
year: 2010
INHALE EXHALE
director: Jean Counet
cinematographer: Kimmo Jaatinen
country: Belgium, Netherlands, Finland
year: 2010
INVENTORY
director: Paweł Łoziński
cinematographer: Paweł Łoziński
country: Poland
year: 2010
IRON CROWS
director: Bong-Nam Park
cinematographer: Yeon-Taek Seo
country: South Korea
year: 2009
LOVERS
director: Rafał Skalski
cinematographer: Jakub Giza
Maciej Kaliński
country: Poland
year: 2009
LAST DAY OF SUMMER, THE
director: Piotr Stasik
cinematographer: Piotr Stasik
country: Poland
year: 2010
MORNING ALWAYS COMES
director: Kari Pettersen
cinematographer: Patrik Säfström
country: Norway
year: 2009
OUT OF LOVE
director: Birgitte Stærmose
cinematographer: Marek Septimus Wieser
country: Denmark
year: 2009
PIECE OF SUMMER, A
director: Marta Minorowicz
cinematographer: Paweł Chorzępa
country: Poland
year: 2010
SPIRIT
director: Adam Gutch, Chu-Li Shewring
cinematographer: Adam Gutch
country: UK
year: 2010
SUN COME UP
director: Jennifer Redfearn
cinematographer: Tim Metzger
country: USA
year: 2010
THAT'S LIFE...
director: Daniel Zieliński
cinematographer: Alex Pavlović
country: Poland
year: 2010
TRAFFIC JAM
director: Oskar Forstén, Arthur Franck
cinematographer: Oskar Forstén, Mikael Gustafsson
country: Finland
year: 2009
TRAPICHE
director: Luis Villacís
cinematographer: Luis Villacís
country: Columbia
year: 2009
WAY UP, THE
director: Shirly Berkovitz
cinematographer: Shirly Berkovitz
country: Israel
year: 2009
