48th INTERNATIONAL THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 16-25, 2007
The jury of the International Competition Section of the 48th Thessaloniki Film Festival
comprised of:
Jirí Menzel, Director (CzechRepublic), President
Lucrecia Martel, Director (Argentina)
Yasmin Ahmad, Director / Producer / Actress (Malaysia)
Michael Fitzgerald, Producer (USA)
Nae Caranfil, Director (Romania)
Fred Roos, Producer (USA)
and
Olga Brumas, Poet / Professor (Greece)
THE ΑWARDS
- Best Feature Film Award - Golden Alexander
(37.000 euros)
HONGSE KANBAIYIN, (THE RED AWN)
by
Shangjun Cai, Producer Li Xudong, China
- Special Jury Award - Silver Alexander
(22.000)
PVC-1
by
Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Producers Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Jason Hall, Colombia / Greece / USA
to
VEIKO OUNPUU
for
Sügisball (Autumn Ball), Estonia
to
THANOS ANASTOPOULOS, VASSILIS RAISSIS
for
Diorthosi (Correction), by Thanos Anastopoulos, Greece
to
ANNA LALASIDOU
for
Elli Makra - 42277 Wuppertal, by Athanasios Karanikolas, Germany
to
ALBERTO SORNOZA
for
PVC-1, by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Colombia / Greece / USA
- Artistic Achievement Award
to
JONAS CUARON, for Año Uña (The Year of The Nail), Mexico
FIPRESCIAWARDS
The 48th International Thessaloniki Film Festival FIPRESCI (The International Federation of Film Critics) jury comprised of:
Alin Tasciyan, President (Turkey)
Pablo Utin (Israel)
Shahla Nahid (France)
Raghavendra Mirle (India)
Dimitris Babas (Greece)
Bestows the FIPRESCI award for a film in the International Competition Section 2007 to
PVC-1 by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Colombia / Greece / USA
For a film in the Greek Films 2007 section to
i EPISTROFI (THE HOMECOMING) by Vassilis Douvlis, Greece
HUMANVALUESAWARD (15.000 euros)
Τhe Hellenic Parliament TV Channel is bestowing the award to a film of the Independence Days ID-07 section, to the film
- SZTUCZKI (Tricks) by Andrzej Jakimowski, Poland
FISCHER PUBLIC CHOICE AWARDS
For a film in the International Competition section
(3.000 euros)
- PVC-1 by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Colombia / Greece / USA
For a film in the Greek Films 2007 section
(3.000 euros)
- el greco by Iannis Smaragdis, Greece
For a film in the Balkan Survey section
(2.000 euros)
- BEYNELMILEL (THE INTERNATIONAL) by Sirri Sureyya Onder and Muharrem Gulmez, Turkey
For a film in the Greek Films DigitalWave section
(2.000 euros)
- YAGONAN: THE DARK DAYS OF DOOM by Yagos Raftopoulos, Greece
THEGREEKUNIONOFFILMTELEVISIONANDAUDIOVISUALTECHNICIANS (ETEKT) AWARD
The ETEKT award to a Greek film in the Greek Films 2007 section is given to
- EL GRECO by Iannis Smaragdis
THEGREEKFILMCRITICSASSOCIATION (PEKK) AWARD
The PEKK award for a Greek film in the Greek Films 2007section is given to
· METAMORFOSI (METAMORPHOSIS), by Costas Sfikas, Greece
EVERYDAY LIFE: TRANSCENDENCE OR RECONCILIATION AWARD (15.000 EUROS)
Offered by the Ministry for Macedonia – Thrace
• ELLI MAKRA - 42277 WUPPERTAL, by Athanasios Karanikolas, Germany
WOMAN & EQUALITY AWARD (5.500 EUROS)
Offered by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality, a division of the Hellenic Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization
• BUDA AZ SHARM FORU RIKHT (BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME), by Hana Makhmalbaf, Iran / France
CROSSROADS - Co-production Forum AWARD (10.000 EUROS)
Offered by Nokia N series
• THE POLICEMAN by Navad Lapid, Israel - Producers Edgar Tenembaum, Geraldine Michelot
BALKAN FUND - Script Development AWARDS (10.000 EUROS each) AND SPECIAL MENTIONS
2 SPECIAL MENTIONS:
METASTASES -Director: Branko Schmidt -Producer: Stanislav Babic, Croatia
SOME OTHER STORIES- Writers/ Directors: Ana Maria Rossi / Ines Tanovic /Maria Dzizeva / Hanna Slak / Ivona Juka - Producer: Nenad Dukoc, Serbia / Montenegro
4 AWARDS:
RIO - Writers: Nicolas Panoutsopoulos & Argyris Germanidis - Director/Producer: Nicolas Panoutsopoulos, Greece
THE POOR LITTLE THINGS - Writer: Onder Cakar - Director: Ayhan Hacifazlioglu - Producer: Sevil Demirci Cakar, Turkey
FIRST OF ALL, FELICIA - Writers/Directors: Melissa De Raaf & Razvan Radulescu -Producer: Ada Solomon, Romania
MOTHER - Writer/Director: Juraj Lerotic - Producer: Dana Budisavljevic, Croatia |