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  • Bar, Montenegro October 2012, TBA
  • Call for Entry Deadline: September 2012, TBA
  • Festival Data:
    • Established: 1994
    • Attendance: 40000
    • Media Attendance: 50
    • Accredited Industry Attendance: 200
    • Total Number of Films Submitted: 152
    • Total Number of Films Screened: 55
    • Total Domestic Films Screened: 2
    • Total Foreign Films Screened: 53
    • Competitive
    • Has Panels
    • Has Seminars
    • Workshops
  • Festival Website:
    http:/ / www.tvfestbar.com/
  • Festival Description:

    In one of the six former Yugoslav republics of Montenegro on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, The International TV Festival Bar is held each October to evaluate the quality of domestic and international television programs, while encouraging creativity in television medium. The festival endeavours to organize a program of screenings, TV meetings and communications in order to build roads of cooperation and understanding, among both TV authors and countries and TV viewers from different countries.

    The festival organization was created in 1994 the after the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992. The International TV Festival Bar was created to preserve the loosened ties among people and nations of what used to be their common homeland.  Founded upon the belief that future cooperation in the media and openness to the world would be inevitable, the first festival took place in 1995. After one year's break in 1998, it continued gathering more and more television centres from renowned European and world centres, as well as from all the republics of former Yugoslavia.

    The festival's selection committee consisting of three members who select programs for competitive category which include:

    • FEATURE PROGRAMMES - TV DRAMAS and TV FILMS (up to 120 minutes);)
    • DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMES: documentary TV reportage and a documentary TV film (up to 90 minutes);
    • Documentary programme on ecology (up to 30 minutes);

    There are two basic criteria for programme selection: quality and established duration of programmes in competitive category.

    The Golden, Silver and Bronze Olive awards are presented in the documentary and feature programs, while one best program award is presented in the category of ecology.  The Author’s awards are presented in each category for the Best Screenplay, for the Best Directing  and for the Best Photography

    Awards will be presented in the feature program including Best Actor Award and  Best Actress Award.  The best program in the Festival is presented with the Grand Prix of the Festival and a producer award will be presented for the Best Selection in the Festival.

    The International TV Festival is a non-governmental, independent organization. It is financed by and raises assets thanks to the material support of its founders and donors. In accordance with its Statute and program objectives, the Festival cooperates with relevant local and international non-governmental organizations.

    **THERE IS NO FEE TO SUBMIT TO THIS FESTIVAL**

  • Film Submissions:
  • Email:tvfest(at)cg.yu
    Phone:+382-85-303-053
    Fax:+382-85-303-052
    Mailing Address: Jovana Tomasevica 57.
    Bar, Crna Gora 85000
    Montenegro

                                                                                                                                                       


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  • The Grand Prix of the Festival goes to the film "(Hate) Machine", author and producer Phil Caron, Canada. The film is about the power of the media. It is warning how dangerous it can be to accept the constructed new truth.
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  • JURY'S DECISIONS IN THE CATEGORY OF DOCUMENTARY:

    GOLDEN OLIVE goes to the film "Wolverines – hyenas of the north" directed by Oliver Goetzl and produced by GULO FILM PRODUCTIONS (for NDR NATURFILM – STUDIO HAMBURG DOCUMENTARIES), Germany, for the passionate commitment to discover the world never before captured by the camera, and for the intriguing portrait of the wildlife photographer.

    SILVER OLIVE goes to the film "Statement 710399", directed by Refik Hodžić and produced by XY FILMS, BiH, sober and moving for the investigation into the crimes of the past. It finds the reason for hope on the both sides of conflict.

    BRONZE OLIVE goes to the film "Welcome Europa", directed by Bruno Ulmer and produced by ARTE FRANCE / Son et lumière, France. A poetic exploration of relentless, hopelessness and emasculation experienced by four refugees in Europe which powerfully questions the lack of humanity faced by these vulnerable people.

    THE AWARD FOR DIRECTING goes to Nurit Kedar for the film "Wasted" produced by Ruth Diskin Films, Israel. Through a skilful and innovative structure and approach, the director explores the visceral experiences of Israeli soldiers and invites the audience to contemplate the many levels of waste brought about by war and politics.

    THE AWARD FOR THE SCREENPLAY goes to Claudio Canepari, Piergiorgio di Cara, Salvo Palazzalo, Clelio Benvento and Francesco la Licata for the film "Checkmate – Provenzano", directed by Claudio Canepari, Claudio Mariano Cirino and Paolo Santolini, and produced by RAI, Italy, because excellent and dynamically structuring of story turns this documentary into suspensful thriller movie.

    THE AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY goes to the director of photography Ivo Nörenberg for the film "Wolverines – hyenas of the north", produced by GULO FILM PRODUCTIONS (for NDR NATURFILM – STUDIO HAMBURG DOCUMENTARIES), Germany, with its exceptional cinematography the film invites the audience into the beauty and mystery of Finland's landscape and into the lines of the elusive wolverine.

    GRAND PRIX OF THE FESTIVAL
    The Grand Prix of the Festival goes to the film "Crime named Katyn", directed by Petra Shelikova and produced by CZECH TV, Czech. An excellently structured film with international signifance to the past, present and future. Trough the words of witnesses, families of victims, historians and even denialists, it exposes the truth of the massacre at Katyn.

    THE AWARD FOR THE BEST SELECTION ON THE FESTIVAL
    Jury decided that the award for the best selection on the Festival goes to RAI, Italy, because of consistency of quality and innovative ways in dealing with serious topics.

    JURY'S DECISIONS IN THE CATEGORY OF ECOLOGY

    AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTING
    The award for the best director in the category of ecology goes to Villi Hermann for the film "Greina", produced by RTSI Televisione Svizzera / Imagofilm Lugano, Switzerland. Through the story of one cheese maker who wants to continue old ecological cheese-making tradition he in a beautifully cinematic and silence way shows the change in the agricultural system.

    THE AWARD FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
    The award for the best photography in the category of ecology goes to Damir Bednjanec for the film "Kornati Islands", produced by HRT, Croatia.. Photography vividly captured natural beauties and cultural heritage of this Croatian islands.

    AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY
    The award for the best screenplay goes to Roonak Sonboli for the film "A black night" produced by IRIB, Iran. The script brought dramatic structure to this ecological story and the complicated subject matter was delivered with great clarity.

    GOLDEN OLIVE
    In the category of ecology Golden Olive goes to the film "A black night", produced byIRIB, Iran and directed by Saeid Nabi. "A black night" is a well structured story of the invasion of alien jellyfish into the Caspian sea over last 5-6 years. With the very effective use of cinema language it illuminates the devastation that jellyfish cause into the livelihood of the fisherman and the scientists effort to find a solution.

    JURY'S DECISIONS IN THE CATEGORY OF TV FILM/ TV DRAMA

    THE AWARD FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
    The award for the best photography in the category of TV Film/ TV Drama goes to Marek Traskowskit for the film "Feast of St Barbara" produced byTVP SA – Film Agency, Poland, for discovering a surprising beauty in the most unexpected surroundings.

    THE AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTING
    The award for the best director in the category of TV Film/ TV Drama goes to Gianfranco Albano, for the film "The moon's child", produced by RAI Fiction 11 MARZO FILMS, Italy. For the successful transformation of a historical event into a truthful film story, where the director interprets this true story in a warm, human and gripping film with a large ensemble of excellent perfomances.

    THE AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY
    The award for the best screenplay in the category of TV Film/ TV Drama go to Rupert Henning and Uli Brée for the film "Brothers – on the road to Santiago" produced by DOR FILM PRODUCTION / ORF / ARTE, Austria. The Jury liked how the script integrated personal stories with large social issues and combined it with a light-hearted touch.

    THE AWARD FOR THE BEST ACTOR
    The award for the best actor in the category of TV Film/ TV Drama goes to Piotr Fronczewski for the film "Conversations with an executioner" produced by TVP SA – Film Agency, Poland, for the detailed depiction of the mind and soul of the totalitarian man for whom the emotions are suspended by rigid ideology.

    THE AWARD FOR THE BEST ACTRESS
    The award for the best actress in the category of TV Film/ TV Drama goes to Alexandra Kurikova for the film "The God of sadness and joy", produced by Viktor Minsky and Maksim Ykhanov – Film.UA, for the realistic portrayal of woman who is suddenly confronted with unresolved issues from the past, and in that confrontation she must find her true self.

    BRONZE OLIVE
    In the category of TV Film/ TV Drama Bronze Olive goes to "Nothing is forgotten", directed by Nils Willbrandt, produced by Dagmar Rosenbauer / WDR. The eternal human dilemmas: guilt and forgiveness and consequences of lack of absolution are competently explored in this film.

    SILVER OLIVE
    In the category of TV Film/ TV Drama Silver Olive goes to film "Before you hit the ground" produced byDramatiska Istitutet, Sweden, directed by Magnus Holmgren. Creatively directed and structured love story. Lucid dream subject has dealed with care, which beautifully adds more layers on this surviving story.

    GOLDEN OLIVE
    In the category of TV Film/ TV Drama Golden Olive goes to film "The moon's child" produced by RAI Fiction 11 MARZO FILMS, directed by Gianfranco Albano, Italy, for the epic story of a most difficult struggle for the human dignity and freedom.
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