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AWARDS |
CHAUVEL AWARD
Each year the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) acknowledges
a distinguished contributor to Australian cinema through the
Chauvel Award. In the past the Award has been presented to Jan
Chapman (2002), Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson (2001), Bryan
Brown (2000), Bob Ellis (1999), Rolf de Heer (1998), Jon Seal
(1997), Dr George Miller (1996), Gillian Armstrong (1995), Fred
Schepisi (1994) and Paul Cox (1993).
In 2003 the recipient is Tony Buckley. Click
here for more on the achievements of Tony Buckley
FIPRESCI AWARD
FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse
Cinématographique) is the international federation
of film critics, and has members in sixty countries. Founded
in the late 1920s 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 film festivals.
FIPRESCI's first jury prize was presented to David Lean's
Brief Encounter and Georges Rouquier's Farrebique at the 1946
Cannes Film Festival.
The FCCA (Film Critics' Circle of Australia) is the national
body of professional film critics, reviewers, and writers
on cinema. As well as participating in various overseas FIPRESCI
juries, the FCCA presents annual awards for Australian features,
documentaries, and shorts.
Nominees for the FIPRESCI Award, for Asia-Pacific film,
are:
Bird Man Tale, Garin Nugroho (Indonesia)
Gettin' Square, Jonathan Teplitzky (Australia)
Japanese Story, Sue Brooks (Australia)
A Piece of Land, Peter Walker and Ashley Burgess (Vanuatu)
Shadow Kill, Adoor Gopalakrishnan (India, France)
Small Voices, Gil M. Portes (Philippines)
Somewhere over the Dreamland, Cheng Wen-tang (Taiwan)
Springtime in a Small Town, Tian Zhuangzhuang (China)
This is My Land, Mrinal Sen (India)
Turning Gate, Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)
For information on the jurors of the FIPRESCI Award click
here
NETPAC
The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema
NETPAC (the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) takes
as one of its aims the promotion of Asian cinema's role in
the development of cultural diversity and integrity in the
face of late-twentieth-century globalisation. It involves
filmmakers, critics, festivals, programmers, distributors,
exhibitors, and film educators.
One of the ways of promoting Asian cinema is through the
presentation of the NETPAC Award at film festivals. The Brisbane
International Film Festival is proud to host the NETPAC Award
in Australia.
Nominees for the NETPAC Award for Asian Cinema are:
The Bookstore, Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba (Tunisia, France, Morocco)
Hejar, Handan Ipekçi (Turkey, Greece, Hungary)
I'm Taraneh, 15, Rassul Sadr-Ameli (Iran)
Letters in the Wind, Ali Reza Amini (Iran)
Mekhong Full Moon Party, Jira Maligool (Thailand)
Oasis, Lee Chang-dong (Korea)
Rana's Wedding: Jerusalem, Another Day, Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine)
Somewhere over the Dreamland, Cheng Wen-tang (Taiwan)
This is My Land, Mrinal Sen (India)
Turning Gate, Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)
For information on the jurors of the NETPAC Award click
here
INTERFAITH
Interfaith Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values
Inspiration for the inaugural BIFF Interfaith Award was drawn
from the first Interfaith Jury convened at the 2003 Tehran
Film Festival by SIGNIS representative Peter Malone. SIGNIS,
the World Catholic Association for Communication, organises
ecumenical juries to judge films on criteria that take into
account the films' artistic qualities and the human, social,
and spiritual values that they express.
This year's Interfaith panel will draw together three jurors
from diverse religious backgrounds and ask them to judge a
wide selection of films and to present an award to the film
that most successfully espouses humanitarian values.
Nominees for the inaugural BIFF Interfaith Award are:
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, Lee Hirsch (United
States)
Bird Man Tale, Garin Nugroho (Indonesia)
Blue Car, Karen Moncrieff (United States)
The Bookstore, Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba (Tunisia, France, Morocco)
Broken Wings, Nir Bergman (Israel)
Hop, Dominique Standaert (Belgium)
I'm Taraneh, 15, Rassul Sadr-Ameli (Iran)
Molly and Mobarak, Tom Zubrycki (Australia)
Oasis, Lee Chang-dong (Korea)
Shadow Kill, Adoor Gopalakrishnan (India, France)
For information on the jurors for the Interfaith Award click
here
Lexus IF Awards Love it? Hate it? Rate it!
As an accredited film festival, Australian films screened
at BIFF are in the running for the Lexus IF Awards.
The Lexus IF Awards, presented by Inside Film (or IF) magazine
and Lexus, are the people's choice awards for Australian films.
Begun in 1999, the Awards exist to let Australian filmmakers
know what local audiences think of their films. We want to
know your opinion of each and every Australian film you've
seen this year, so love it or hate it, rate it! By doing so,
you help to determine the winners at this year's Lexus IF
Awards, which culminate in a gala ceremony, broadcast live
on SBS on Wednesday 12 November, and rebroadcast on Showtime
on the 13th and 14th of November.
Click
on this link www.ifawards.com then click on 'Rate a Film' to rate the Australian films screened at BIFF.
Rate films from one ('gimme a refund') to 5 ('standing ovation').
Winners are then determined by the overall average audience
score.
Have your say about the quality and impact of the Australian
films you have seen.
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