Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival - 2010 Awards

 

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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:

Best Documentary Film

by MALIN NICANDER and LISA JONSSON - Sweden
An asylum in El Salvador is the home of 250 people. We meet the jumble of plates in bright colours, the noisy televisions and sheet-metal beds, but also the peaceful pursuit of pastimes in corridors and dormitories.
Awarded Category: Best Documentary

Best Fiction Film

by JAN-EJE FERLING - Sweden
Cissi 27 and Bernt 59 become friends in AA. They cannot respond to each other's wants. She is searching her alcoholic father and Bernt his missing daughter.
Awarded Category: Best Fiction Film

Best Direction

by NANCY DURRELL MCKENNA & JOHN HOWARTH - United Kingdom
It is estimated that up to 140 million women have undergone some form of female genital mutilation (FGM). Its justification is that it's an important initiation that reinforces virginity, chastity, marriageability and fidelity.
Awarded Category: Direction

Best Screenplay

EXPANSIVE GROUNDS 
by GERBURG ROHDE-DAHL -Germany
The filmmaker's discussion about her identity as a German caused by the Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. A German story of every day life.
Awarded Category: Screenplay

Best Integral Realization

VOLCANOES OF THE DEEP SEA
by STEPHEN LOW - Canada
The Submersible drops into the depths, miles below the ocean surface, to a world that looks like it came from the overheated imagination of a science fiction writer. Overheated it may be, with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but this underwater world is real.
Awarded Category: Integral Realization

Best Actress

by JEEYOUNG KIM - Korea
Story about victim of sexual violence. And public gaze about her.(or all).
Actress Performance: Sunhwa HWANG

Best Actor

by JAN-EJE FERLING - Sweden
Cissi 27 and Bernt 59 become friends in AA. They cannot respond to each other's wants. She is searching her alcoholic father and Bernt his missing daughter.
Actor Performance: Anders Palm

Best Editing

by ALBERTO NACCI - Italy
QUIPPE DANCE is a ... dance of Heidelberg print machines shooted during an usually work day. A videoart work where photography meets music and the rhythm of Sabre Dance by Aram Khatchaturian describes the life of these beautiful machines!
Awarded Category: Editing

Best Photography

by ISRAEL DEL SANTO - Spain
'Mouth is not a hole in a wall that can be covered with mud'. This is what Kurdish people use to say if somebody ask them about the dark years they lived during the war.
Photography: LATI MARANA

Best Art Direction

LASTRAIN
by TONY LOPEZ & DAVID SANZ - Spain
I can't say whether it's courage or fear that drives me,but the thrill of being alive  is the most powerful feeling of all.
Art Direction: ANDREA ANCIBAR

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

Special Mention

by SHALINI RAGHAVIAH - India
The paradox of street children is that they are 'slum children' who belong to families. The community is aware of their presence and lays a careless stake in their existence. Most of them roam the streets, are into substance abuse and live on the fringes of street crime and violence.

Special Mention

by ALAN GORG - USA
Truth in history: the four rulers responsible for starting the four biggest wars of the last hundred years each present the same deceitful method they all used to trick their countries into supporting their wars.

Special Mention

by MARIA ROSA ANDREOTTI -Argentina
A documentary portrait shot in the streets of Buenos Aires of a street poet, Summa Cum Laude bum, as he defines himself, whose culture is his haven and his value of survival.
 


OFFICIAL SELECTION
Click on the title to watch. The titles in gray are available to watch online.
The films who's producers do not authorize its online screening can not be viewed publicly and will not have a link. Those films have been reviewed by the
Committee of Art and the Jury privately.


A TIME TO RE-BOND by SHALINI RAGHAVIAH
AHMEDABAD PROMENADE by DP STUDENTS, MGIS
ALBERTA, DETROIT
by JOHN WILBERDING
AN AREA OF DARKNESS by INDRANIL BANERJEE
APHRODITE'S MIRROR
by ISRAEL DEL SANTO
BREATH OUT by JEEYOUNG KIM
CAP A QUIMELCA by MANEL ALMINANA, ITATI MOYANO and XAVI PUEBLA
CHAT KERALA by EMANUELE MUSCOLINO
COMEBACK by SERHIY TSYMBAL
DAMAGED! by SUBRAT KUMAR SAHU
DE L AUTRE COTE - THE OTHER SIDE by MAUD GEFFRAY and SEBASTIEN CHENUT
DREAM by JAMES ROBERT BRASIC
EXPANSIVE GROUNDS by GERBURG ROHDE-DAHL
FAR FROM HAVANA by ALEYDA VALDEZ
GHOSTS by MORVARY SAMARE and ASTRID SCHAU-LARSEN
HOW TO JUMP START YOUR WAR by ALAN GORG
JUST FOR TODAY by JAN-EJE FERLING
L'ANDANA (THE PLATFORM) by SIRA ANDREU
LASTRAIN by TONY LOPEZ and DAVID SANZ
LILIANA CAVANI. A WOMAN IN CINEMA by PETER MARCIAS
LUMMOX by PETER BOYD MACLEAN
MAHOUTS, THE ELEPHANT PEOPLE by JANVI KARWAL and KRINA PRAJAPATI
MIENTRAS ESPERAMOS by MALIN NICANDER and LISA JONSSON
MODERN DAY SLAVES by TED UNARCE
MORE THAN VOLLEYBALL by KEILAN RICKARD
NORTH KOREA: CALLING THE TUNE by B.NECEK, F.THERY and P.JENLIS
NOT RECONCILED by JILL DANIELS
PARADISE OF 7 TRIBES by ISRAEL DEL SANTO
POSTCARDS FROM HEAVEN by PHIL BORGES and SARA ANDERSON
PROJECT 798 - NEW ART IN NEW CHINA by LUCIUS C. KUERT
QUIPPE DANCE by ALBERTO NACCI
RAMON ROJAS - SUENOS DE CHOZAS by MARIA ROSA ANDREOTTI
SHARP SHARP ! by SYLVIE COULON
SEASONS IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS  by MAX STACHOWSKI
SOMETHING IS STIRRING UNDER THE BANANA TREES by LLUIS CROUS
SOTTO IL CELIO AZZURRO by EDOARDO WINSPEARE
STOLEN LIVES by RUSHNA KHAN
THE BEAR'S SKIN by GILLES DAUBEUF
THE CUTTING TRADITION by NANCY DURRELL MCKENNA and JOHN HOWARTH
THE JAIL by ABHIJIT DAS GUPTA
THE POWER OF THE POWERLESS by CORY TAYLOR
THE SHAFTESBURY PLAYERS by CORNELIA HAYES O'HERLIHY and JOHN HAYES
TRAS LOS PASOS DEL BANDOLERO by PEDRO JAEN R.
TWO WEDDINGS IN THE TIME OF THE BRAVE by IQBAL MALHOTRA
VOLCANOES OF THE DEEP SEA by STEPHEN LOW
WHEN YOU DIE AS A CAT by ZORAN MASLIC

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"It was so fun and so much talent everywhere in all the films. Some of the decisions very very close but I am very happy with the final winners. All films are winners for me!"

Mattew Gordon
President of the Jury 


"I am so thankful to have had this opportunity to participate as member of
the jury of the Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Film Festival 2010. I had the chance to watch and enjoy a diverse and high quality group of films from all over, that show the passion and great effort we all put on filmmaking."

David Munoz
International Jury 

 

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