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Docupolis International Documentary Film Festival of Barcelona

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  • Barcelona, Spain October 01 - 05, 2008
  • Call for Entry Deadline: June 01, 2008
  • Festival Data:
    • Established: 2000
    • Attendance: 12000
    • Media Attendance: 80
    • Accredited Industry Attendance: 100
    • Total Number of Films Submitted: 700
    • Total Number of Films Screened: 80
    • Total Screenings: 90
    • Competitive
    • Has Panels
  • Festival Website:
    www.docupolis.org
  • Festival Description:

    This festival screens Documentary films in various competitive categories including: Feature, Short, Experimental, Urban issue- based.

    Awards given include:

    DOCÚPOLIS AWARD (Worth : 6.000 €)- Best Documentary film. The Docúpolis Award to the best documentary is a recognition of the documentary work and of author. The subject matter is free and they can compete for the prize from students to professionals. The efficiency and the rigor documentary maker are essential aspects of this prize, but also it it are the experimentation and the treatment.

    GRAN ANGULAR AWARD TVE Catalunya (Worth: 3.000 €)- Best Short Documentary Film. The works presented to the "Gran Angular" award TVE Catalunya will be works not emitted previously in Catalunya, with a duration of among 21 to 25 minutes and free of rights. TVE Catalunya will pay 3.000 euros directly to the winning documentary. The winning authors will yield the broadcasting rights to TVE Catalunya for three emissions. The Catalonian TVE' s program Gran Angular is a program of documentaries and articles of social subject matters. The program tries to be a platform for the diffusion of the works of new producers.

    BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY AWARD (Worth: Documentary’s distribution by Ermedia). This prize is to go toward the distribution of the winning film makers production. The company in charge of distributing the documentary is Ermedia.

    TERCER OJO AWARD – Best experimental documentary film. This prize, granted by Tercer Ojo, Association of Cinema and Documentary

    Video, must meet the criteria defined by Tercer Ojo: experimentation, risk, freshness, aesthetic ethics, and contribution to the development of documentary language.

    HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD – Best documentary film. This prize is a contribution to the enrichment of the fundamental values of the human being and for that reason the call tries to be a seal of identity of the festival like a datum point for the defense of the human rights.

    BEST LATIN AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY- Docupolis gives this award responding to the great participation of documentaries coming from Latin America, a complex area but with a great increase in documentary production.

    AUDIENCE AWARD- The public attending to the Festival choose the best documentary on competition.

    THE MAN OF THE CAMERA AWARD- This award was first granted in 2004 with the aim of recognizing and supporting the honorific career of a documentary maker. It is dedicated to film makers who have left an important legacy in the audio-visual and the documentary field. One of the criteria being valued is the historical issue as well as the audio-visual quality of the work.

  • Email:info(at)docupolis.org
    Phone:(34) 93 306 41 00
    Fax:(34) 93 302 24 23
    Mailing Address: CCCB, C/ Montalegre 5,
    Barcelona 8001
    Spain

                                                                                                                                                       

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  • Official Competition Awards:

    Docúpolis Award Best Documentary: "Welcome Europe" Directed By: Bruno Ulmer (France)
    Prize: 6.000 euros

    Special Mention by the Jury of Best Documentary: "The Mother’s House"
    Directed By: François Verster (South-Africa)

    Best First Documentary Award ex aequo:" Encounter Point "
    Directed By: Julia Bacha and Ronit Avni (USA)
    and "A verdade do gato" (The truth of the cat)
    Directed By: Jeremy Hammers (Belgium)

    Best Short Documentary Award Gran Angular: "ShantyGARDENtown"
    Directed By: Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti (France)

    OFF DOCÚPOLIS Award: "Roaming Around"
    Directed By: Brigitte Maria Bertele (Germany)

    Honorific Prices :

    Best Documentary Concerning Human Rights: "A Walk to Beautiful"
    Directed By: Mary Olive Smith (USA)

    Best Latin-American Documentary: "Descaminhos" (Dead End)
    Directed By: Marilia Rocha, Luis Felipe Fernández, Alexandre Baxter, Joao Flores, Maria de Fátima Augusto, Leandro HBL, Armando Mendz and Cristiano Abud (Brazil).

    Best Experimental Documentary Award Tercer Ojo: "A Ilha da boa vida"
    Directed By: Merces Tomaz Gomez (Portugal)

    Audience Award: "Djiarama"
    Directed By: Chus Barrera and Alícia Fernández Carmena
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