The following juries sat at the 11th year of IDFF Ji hlava and the following filmmakers were awarded:

BETWEEN THE SEAS INTERNATIONAL JURY to award Best Central and Eastern European Documentary Film: “Artel”
Director: Sergei Loznitsa (Russia, 2006)

This year the jury also gave a special mention to the film: “It Happened Just Before”
Director: Anja Salomonowitz (Austria, 2006)

The following persons sat on this jury:

Michal Bregant / Czech Republic
Film historian and theoretician, chief editor of the magazine Iluminace, since 2002 dean of Prague FAMU; due to his merit the whole department has shifted in a fundamental way towards a more free curriculum structure and hosting international tutors.

Arnold Dec / Poland
Film critic and organizer of film events, he has finished studies in geography, film studies and media studies, director of the Sanok Film Festival and Summer Film School in Zwierzyniec, since 2006 executive director of the International Documentary Film Festival Crossroads of Europe in Lublin.

Juan Manuel Eujanian / Argentina
A producer schooled at Buenos Aires University. National, Public and State University - a versatile author, graduate student of film studies, author of several television films and short films, worked as cameraman and editor, held seminars of digital editing technologies and film editing in Mexico and Argentina.

Mária Ferenčuhová / Slovakia
Prorector of the University of Fine Arts in Bratislava, film theoretician and editor of the Slovak Film science and the "moving pictures" magazine Kino-Ikon, besides Kino-Ikon she also publishes in the Cinepur revue or the National film archive quarterly Iluminace.

Jean-Philippe Tesse / France
Film critic writing for the French magazine Les Cahiers du Cinéma, dramaturgist of the Nantes Three Continent Film Festival dealing with the contemporary film of African, Asian and Latin American countries.

OPUS BONUM JURY to award BEST WORLD DOCUMENTARY FILM: “731: Two Versions of Hell”
Director: James T. Hong (China, USA, Taiwan, 2006)


Woody Vasulka Award for the best documentary film of 2007, juried by Woody Vasulka / USA
Born in Brno, he studied hydraulic mechanics and metalurgy, subsequently the documentary film department at FAMU, he belongs to the first generation of video technology experimenters, he has lived in the US since 1965, he founded the electronic media theater The Kitchen in New York, currently he works as curator and archivist in the Center for Art and Media Technologies (KZM) in Karlsruhe, Germany.

CZECH JOY JURY to award BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM: “A Town Called Hermitage”
Directors: Ondřej Provazník, Martin Dušek (Czech Republic, 2007)

The following persons sat on the jury:

Juraj Horváth
Artist and graphic designer of books, head of the illustration and graphics atelier at VŠUP. He was awarded The Most Beautiful Czech Book Award several times and in 2001 he received the Finest Book of the World Award at the Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany. His activities include drawing, graphics, illustration and publishing of children´s books and magazines in a family publishing house Baobab, for seven years he has been the author of the graphic design of the Jihlava festival.

Jan Šikl
Film director and screenwriter, after graduating from the Prague FAMU he has worked in the Short Film Studio since 1984, besides how own documentaries or commission work he also cooperated at the screenplay for the TV series The Criminalist Adventure. In 1991 he founded his own production company Pragafilm. He was awarded the Best Czech Documentary Film Award at the IDFF Jihlava in 2005 (along five five more filmmakers) and 2006.

Drahomíra Vihanová
Chief pedagogue at FAMU, film director, famous especially for her safe film Zabitá neděle, made a whole range of creative documentary films (among others Proměny přítelkyně Evy, Denně předstupuji před tvou tvář) and keeps coming back also to feature films (last time in 2000 with her film Zpráva o putování studentů Petra a Jakuba).

Petr Pirochta
Currently a taxi driver in Jihlava, in the past he worked as a Construction Industry driver in Brno, after 1989 he worked as an assessor of the municipal court in Jihlava and a local manager of the political party Občanské hnutí (Civil Movement), later on he went over to security services; he has been a long-time subscriber of Literární noviny.

AUDIENCE AWARD: “The Tadpole, the Rabbit and the Holy Ghost”
Director: Filip Remunda (Czech Republic, 2007)

CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMATOGRAPHY

The contribution to world cinematography was personally received in Jihlava by the Brno-born Woody Vasulka.

Born in Brno, he studied hydraulic mechanics and metalurgy, subsequently the documentary film department at FAMU, he belongs to the first generation of video technology experimenters, he has lived in the US since 1965, he founded the electronic media theater The Kitchen in New York, currently he works as curator and archivist in the Center for Art and Media Technologies (KZM) in Karlsruhe, Germany.

THE "RESPEKT" AWARD for the BEST REPORTAGE went to the two-part “Highway” from the ČT Reporters program.