Mediawave 'Another Connection' Int'l Film and Music Festival

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Gyor, Hungary April 25 - May 02, 2009
Call for Entry Deadline: January 10, 2009
Festival Data:
- Established: 1991
- Genre: Documentary, General
- Attendance: 30000
- Media Attendance: 70
- Accredited Industry Attendance: 20
- Total Number of Films Submitted: 723
- Total Number of Films Screened: 68
- Total Screenings: 288
- Total National and International Premieres: 5
- # of Shorts Screened: 45
- # of Features Screened: 13
- Accreditations: ECFF
- Competitive
- Has Panels
- Has Seminars
Festival Website:
www.mediawave.hu
Festival Description:

The MEDIAWAVE Festival became well known in Hungary and abroad as a film contest, judged by an international jury, that honors quality films from around the world. The open competition excludes the mass-produced "blockbusters.” In addition to the film competition, there are also retrospective screenings, film premiers, film workshops and a robust slate of musical performances.

During the history of the festival almost every important Eastern European film makers visited us like Iljenko, Klimov, Menzel, Bukovski, Kossakovsky, Vivi Dragan Vasile and Emir Kusturica who also debuted as a musician. Maia Morgenstern, who became world famous during the time, has also took part in the festival two times with her special plays. The festival is distinctive because of the special location. The event is a kind of borderline and also a meeting point of the western and eastern film culture. With hard work it managed to restore the importance and the rank of the Eastern European film and also established the bases of an intensely "visual-minded” festival.

In the first festival’s program almost all branches of contemporary art had a place (concert, theatre, dance-theatre, street theatre, exhibition, literature). This all-inclusive attitude cleared out with time and step-by-step the festival found the genres that were to get more emphasis. Since 2002 it has the subtitle International Film and Music Festival that indicates the acceptance of music as a main genre with improvisative, jazz, ethno and underground sub-genres playing a central role. Since 2004 very successful workshops have come to life in these types of music, and they will continue in the future as well.
Film Submissions:
- Accepts direct submissions
- Call for Entry: http:/ / mwave.irq.hu/ index.php?pid=20071114033132T6hiRzWAiM9bkL4n&modul=nevezes&nyelv=eng

Email:	info(at)mediawave.hu
Phone:	(36) 96 517 667
Fax:	(36) 96 517 668
Mailing Address:	International Visual Art Foundation, Kazinczy u. 3-5, Gyor H-9021 Hungary

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JUN 18 03:57PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

Award WInners Announced for the 2008 MEDIAWAVE

MEDIAWAVE 2008 Award Ceremony was held in the former synagogue, now University Concert Hall in the evening 2 May. Animation films were missing from the list of the award winner films this year, Hungarian fictions were preferred by the international jury, though the main prizes were received by Eastern-European documentaries again.

Members of the international jury were:
Ella Davletsina, documentary filmmaker, director of "MEETINGS IN SIBERIA" International Documentary Film Festival (RUS), Mike Hoolboom, fringe filmmaker (CAN), Samira Sinai, actress, director (IRN), Ferenc Török, filmdirector (HUN), Zoltán Korösi, writer (HUN).

MEDIAWAVE’2008 AWARD LIST

HUNGARIAN STUDENT JURY AWARD:
Alexey Fedorchenko for "First on the Moon" (RUS)

SPECIAL MENTION
Rafal Skalski: "52 procent" (52 Percent) (POL)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
offered by KODAK Hungary
Erdély Mátyás: "Türelem" (With a Little Patience) (directed: László Nemes Jeles) (HUN)

THE BEST YOUTH FILM
offered Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture
Horváth Lili: "Uszodai tolvaj" (Swimming Pool Thief) (HUN)

PRIZE OF THE CITY OF GYOR offered by the City of Gyor
Pavel Medvedev: "Na tretej planete ot solnca" (On The 3rd Planet From The Sun) (RUS)

THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE
offered by the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation 4K Advisory Board
Buharov Igor and Buharov Iván: "Lassú Tükör" (Slow Mirror) (HUN)

The KPMG Responsible Society Award
Marcin Sauter – "Pierwszy dzien" (The First Day) (POL)

THE BEST DOCUMENTARY
offered by Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture
Andrey Paounov – "Problemat s komarite i drugi istorii" (The Mosquito Problem And Other Stories) (BUL)

MEDIAWAVE Grand Prize
offered by by the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation
Thomas Ciulei – "Podul de flori " (The Flower Bridge) (ROM)
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