Pärnu International Documentary & Anthropology Film Festival

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Pärnu, Estonia July 2011, TBA
Call for Entry Deadline: April 2011, TBA
Festival Data:
- Established: 1992
- Genre: Documentary (click to see)
- Competitive
Festival Website:
http:/ / www.chaplin.ee/
Festival Description:

The Annual Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival is an artistic and scientific event, an important link between documentary film makers and anthropologists of the East and West. The aim of the festival in general is to support cultural survival of peoples. Only documentary films and videos of high value and quality, recording human activities in social, historical or ecological context are accepted for competition screenings.

The Pärnu International Film Festival prizes- There are 3 categories of competition.

International documentary competition:

*Grand Prize for the best film of the festival

*Prize for the best film on survival of indigenous people

*Prize for the best scientific documentary

*Prize for the best art documentary

*Prize for the best children documentary

Estonian national documentary competition:

* Prize for the best Estonian documentary

TV-competition:

* Estonian People's Award

The Pärnu International Film Festival has one very special prize. This is the ESTONIAN PEOPLE'S AWARD.

During the festival a selected program of outstanding documentaries will be broadcast on Estonian TV and during the last night the TV-audience will be voting for the best film to be awarded with the ESTONIAN PEOPLE'S AWARD.
Film Submissions:
- Accepts direct submissions
- Submission formats: Beta-SP, 16mm, DVD, MiniDV
- Call for Entry: http:/ / www.chaplin.ee/ filmfestival/ industry.htm
Email: festival(at)chaplin.ee

Phone: 372 4430772

Fax: 372 4430774

Mailing Address: Pärnu Film Festival
10, Esplanaadi St.
Pärnu 80010
ESTONIA

Email:	festival(at)chaplin.ee
Phone:	372 4430772
Fax:	372 4430774
Mailing Address:	Pärnu Film Festival 10, Esplanaadi St. Pärnu 80010 ESTONIA

OCT 20, 2008 01:13PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

2008 Award Winners of the Pärnu International Film Festival

GUGARA by Andrzej Dybczak and Jacek Naglowski
- Grand Prize of festival for the best artistic achievment

MAKING RAIN by Liivo Niglas and Frode Storaas
as the best scientific audiovisual recording

CONFLUENCES - EMERILLON OF FRENCH GUIANA by Perle Møhl
as the best film on survival of indigenous peoples

LAST JOIK IN SAAMI FORESTS by Hannu Hyvönen
as the best film on relationship between man and nature

OAK #419 by Robert Harding Pittman, the special mention of jury as the significant film on citizen¹s movement

PARADISE by Jerzy Sladkowski
as the Prize of French Amabassador

Members of the international jury:
Kersti Uibo (Chairman)
Priit Pedajas
Mati Põldre
Elo Liiv
Pille Runnel
Õie Sarv

ALYOSHA by Meelis Muhu
- as the best Estonian film

Jury for Estonian films:
Edward Lucie-Smith
Carol Salter
Andreas Fischer-Hansen

The Estonian People¹s Award according to the televoting on Estonian TV:
MOTHER by Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov
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AUG 16, 2007 02:37PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

Award Winners for the 2007 Pärnu International Film Festival

Estonian People's Award: “DEVIL'S MINER”
Directed by: Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson

The Best Film of the XX Pärnu IDA Film Festival - GRAND PRIX - “BEFORE FLYING BACK TO EARTH”
Directed by: Arunas Matelis (Lithuania)
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