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

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Szombathely, Hungary June 2013, TBA
Call for Entry Deadline: January 2014, TBA
Festival Data:
- Established: 1991
- Genre: Animation - Games, Documentary, Experimental - New Media, General
- Attendance: 30000
- Media Attendance: 100
- Accredited Industry Attendance: 120
- Total Number of Films Submitted: 1100
- Total Number of Films Screened: 155
- Total Screenings: 310
- Total National and International Premieres: 119
- # of Shorts Screened: 126
- # of Features Screened: 29
- Accreditations: ECFF
- Competitive
- Online Festival
- Has Panels
- Has Seminars
- Workshops
Festival Website:
www.mediawave.hu
Festival Description:

The MEDIAWAVE Int'l Film and Music Festival has become 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 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 MEDIAWAVE - 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, took part in the festival two times with her special plays. The festival is distinctive because of its 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 has managed to restore the importance and the rank of Eastern European film and has established itself as 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 changed over time and step-by-step the festival selected the genres that were to get more emphasis. Since 2002 MEDIAWAVE has had the subtitle "International Film and Music Festival" that expresses the acceptance of music as a main festival genre with improvisative, jazz, ethno and underground sub-genres playing a central role. Since 2004 MEDIAWAVE's very successful workshops in those music sub-genres have come to life as a continuing feature of the festival.
Film Submissions:
- Accepts direct submissions
- Call for Entry: http:/ / mediawavefestival.hu/ index.php?modul=nevezesiszabalyzat&nyelv=eng

Email:	info(at)mediawave.hu
Phone:	(36) 96 517 667
Fax:	(36) 96 517 668
Mailing Address:	MEDIAWAVE International Fim and Music Festival 9028 Győr, Soproni Str. 45 9001 Győr Pf. 668 Hungary

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JUN 23, 2010 08:57PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

Award WInners for MEDIAWAVE’2010

THE HUNGARIAN STUDENT JURY'S AWARD
Rene Bo Hanssen (Sweden/Germany):
Die Stimme des Adlers /The Eagle Hunter's Son

AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM EDITING
Jean-Paul Liilienfeld (France):
La journée de la jupe/Skirt Day
The editor: Aurique Delannoy (France)

AWARD FOR THE BEST ACTOR
Hannu-Pekka Björkman (Finland):
Haarautuvan rakkauden talo/The House of Branching Love
(dir. Mika Kaurismaki)

AWARD FOR THE BEST ACTRESS
Rifka Lodeizen (The Netherlands):
Kan Door Huid Heen/Can go through skin
(dir.: Esther Rots)

AWARD FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR
Trencsényi Klára (Hungary) and Vlad Naumescu (Romania):
Drumul Pasarilor/Birds' Way
The award was offered by Duna Workshop

AWARD FOR THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Jörn Staeger (Germany):
Reise zum Wald/Journey to the forest

AWARD FOR THE BEST ANIMATION
Francois Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain (France):
Logorama

AWARD FOR THE BEST SHORT FICTION
Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen (Poland):
Darek

AWARD FOR THE BEST DOCUMENTARY
Responsible Society Award offered by KPMG
Fabian Daub & Andreas Gräfenstein (Germany):
Was übrig bleibt / Left behind

AUDIENCE CHOICE
Bertóti Attila (Hungary/Romania):
Ariadné fonala/Ariadne’s thread

AWARD FOR THE BEST FEATURE FILM & the MAIN PRIZE OF MEDIAWAVE'2010
George Ovashvili (Georgia):
Gagma napiri /The Other Bank
The award was offered by the Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation

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JUN 18, 2008 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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