DANISH DOX:AWARD
Danish Dox Award is CPH:DOX's new competition programme for the best Danish documentaries. The competition was founded in cooperation with the Danish Producers' Association to support both national and international attention towards the diversity and artistic developments in contemporary Danish documentary filmmaking.The competition is made up of 11 brand new films. From new talents right out of film school to well established names on the international documentary scene. In terms of genres, the selection spans from political analysis and reportage in films such as '69' and 'The Arab Initiative' over philosophical essay in 'Everything is Relative' to the more formally experimental works such as Niels Plenge's 'Screening' and Steen Møller Rasmussens 'Long Bien Bridge'. Danish documentary filmmaking is going through sweeping developments, and we hope that DANISH DOX AWARD can help support it.
The prize is worth euro 5000 and is sponsored by the Danish Producers' Association.
See the jury below.
Yoav Shamir (Israel)
Yoav Shamir is a documentary filmmaker who is greatly experienced in portraiying young people. He was born and raised in Tel Aviv, where he studied History and Film in 1995. From 2001 to 2005, he made the documentaries Marta & Luis', 'Checkpoint' and '5 Days'. The films have participated in over 40 festivals around the globe and have been warmly received at great film festivals such as IDFA, Sundance, Berlin and Documenta Madrid, where they have won numerous awards. Yoav Shamir's latest documentary 'Flipping Out' is also shown at CPH:DOX 2008 (see SPECIAL SCREENINGS). The film depicts the hefty reaction of young Israelis, both women and men to having to go through three years of military service. Yoav Shamir has previously been present at CPH:DOX in 2004.
Karolina Lidin (Sweden)
Karolina Lidin is a documentary film consultant with more than 15 years of experience in the international documentary arena. She is currently involved in the Nordic Film & TV Fund, Sheffield DocFest/MeetMarket and works at The Swedish Film Institute. Karolina Lidin started her career at the MEDIA Project for the Creative DOCUMENTARY in 1991. Since then, she has worked as a creative producer at Holland House Productions, been the director of the Danish Film InstituteÕs short and documentary division, managing director of Filmkontakt Nord and the leading organiser of Nordisk Panorama. She has moderated the Toronto Documentary Forum since its inception in 2000 and has moderated IDFA FORUM since 1997. In 2004, Karolina Lidin was presented the Danish WIFT Award for her contribution to the Danish documentary film world.
Dietmar Schwärzler (Austria)
Dietmar Schwrzler is a Film & Media consultant, a freelance writer and a curator of various arts projects. Among his many projects are the film compilation 'Rohstoff / Raw Materials', which he established together with Sylvia Szely to shed light on non-canonised films, which also gave rise to the publication of three magazines. Since 1999, he has worked for the innovative Austrian distribution company Sixpackfilm, a non-profit organisation that promotes Austrian film and video art. Additionally he works for INDEX, where he is a part of the team of concept developers and programmers. INDEX was founded in 2004 and strives to make hitherto unavailable audiovisual works easily available to the public & comparable to a publishing company of quality literature.
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