11th Brisbane International Film Festival

Festival Awards

Introduction

Chauvel Award

FIPRESCI Award

NETPAC Award

FIPRESCI - "Federation Internationale de la Presse Cinematographique" is the international federation of film critics. It has members in sixty countries, the Film Critics Circle of Australia being the Australian national body. Founded at the end of the 20s in France, Belgium and Italy, FIPRESCI is represented at many of the major world film festivals.

FIPRESCI's charter is to promote film art and to encourage new and young cinema. FIPRESCI awards the "International Film Critics Prize" at a variety of international festivals. FIPRESCI first jury prize - at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival - was presented to David Lean's Brief Encounter and Georges Rouquier's Farrebique.

THE FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) is the national body of professional film critics/reviewers/ writers on cinema. As well as participating in various overseas FIPRESCI juries the FCCA presents annual awards for Australian features, documentaries and shorts.

The Brisbane International Film Festival is proud to host a FIPRESCI jury for the first time in 2002. They will make an award to an Asia-Pacific film.

Jurors

Jonathan Rosenbaum is a film critic for the Chicago Reader. He has authored a number of books including Moving Places: A Life at the Movies, Movies as Politics and Movie Wars and is currently co-editing with Adrian Martin the book Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia.

Stephen Teo is a film critic and author of the book "Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions" His writings appear regularly in the online magazine Senses of Cinema. He now resides in Melbourne and is completing a Ph.D at RMIT University.

Paul Harris has worked as a film reviewer-commentator for numerous media outlets including The Age , 3AW and 3RRR , previously working as a programmer for the National Film Theatre Of Australia and the Australian Film Institute . Since 1999 he has been the artistic director of the St . Kilda Film Festival.

Fiona A. Villella is editor of Senses of Cinema and a Melbourne-based writer on film. She is also a co-programmer of the Melbourne Filmoteca and board member of the Melbourne Cinémathèque.