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UNICA NEWS - August 2001
Announcements & Awards

Awards

Announcements


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Der BDFA - Landesverband Baden-Württemberg hat einen neuen Vorsitzenden
Horst W. Meinecke
Achalmstraße 25
72631 Aichtal
tel:  0 71 27 / 96 02 82
fax: 0 71 27/ 96 02 81
email: hwmeinecke@aol.com


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THE COTSWOLD INTERNATIONAL FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2001
Place & date: South Cotswold town of Stroud, the 14th and 15th September 2001
Amateur:
  • Gold & Overall Best Film: ROSE - Ron Prosser
  • Silver: CHESTER - Malcolm Whiteley
  • Bronze: MLYN (THE MILL) - Martin Lanik (CZE)
Student:
  • Gold : A DAY AT THE PARK - Dan Greenway
  • Silver: LEFT WITH THE UNKNOWN - Emma Hey
  • Bronze: THE SEVEN DAYS OF THE NINJA - Mark Jackson
Open:
  • Gold : SCHÄFCHEN ZAHLEN - Sven Taddicken (DEU)
  • Silver: SHOOTER - K. Akeseh Tsakpo
  • Bronze: THE ARABIAN PRINCE - Tana Fletcher
Special:
  • Photographic Society of America Gold Medal for Best Photography: H5 - Holger Hendricks (DEU)
  • Best of British: ROMANIA - Matthew Bigwood
  • Best Use of Sound: LEFT WITH THE UNKNOWN - Emma Hey; A PARK FOR ALL SEASONS - John Astin; A FORGOTTEN HERO - Alan Wood
  • Jessops Prize: THE ENCHANTED ISLANDS - Daphne Barbieri


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SOME OF THE UNICA SILVER AWARDS

UNICA FILM - SILVER MEDAL 2001 & FELLINI PRIZE
Iain Gaffney (GBR), VHS - 9´

Designer Babies
In the future, might it be possible to have a baby "made to measure" as far as colouring, etc is concerned? This movie suggests how.
Bébés a mesure - A l'avenir est-ce qu'on aura la possibilité d'avour un bébé "fait sur mesure", en ce qui concerne la couleur, etc? Ce film suggére comment ça peur arriver.
Kinder nach Mass - Wird es in der Zukunft möglich sein, Gestalt und Aussehen eines Babys zu bestimmen, selbst Augen und Haarfarbe? Diese Film zeigt die Möglichkeiten.

UNICA FILM - SILVER MEDAL 2001
Bob Bennett (GBR), VHS - 8´

The Same Time Next Week
An unusual version of a familiar story in which a man plans to kill his wife. But where is he?
La semaine prochaine à la meme heure - Une version inhabituelle d'une historie bien connue. Un homme projette de tuer sa femme. Mai où est-il?
Nächste Woche um die gleiche Zeit - Eine ungewöhnlich Version einer bekannten Geschichte, in der ein Mann plant, seine frau zu töten.  Aber wo ist er?

UNICA FILM - SILVER MEDAL 2001
Rolf Mandolesi (ITA), Mini DV - 23´

Vicine - Due anziane vedove, vicine di casa, pur appartenendo ad etnie diverse, vivono "assieme" en non "una accanto all'attra".
Neighbours
- Two elderly women, both widows speaking different languages are neighbours living next door to each other in the same house and have become friends.
Nachbarinnen - Zwei betagte Witwen unterschiedlicher Herkunft un Nachbarinnen in einem Miethaus, welche sich über die Sprachgrenzen hinweg angefreundet haben.

UNICA FILM - SILVER MEDAL 2001
Mariusz Chandoha & Marcin Szot (POL), S-VHS 18´

Nigdzie (Nowhere)
A movie about the metaphysical meaning of events. The authors tell a story filled with secrets and riddles. They use many perverse film games.
Nirgends - Eine Geschichte mit vielen Rätseln und Geheimnisen die durch Autoren etwas metaphysisch behandelt wurde.

UNICA FILM - SILVER MEDAL 2001
Rémy Foucherot (FRA), Mini DV - 18´

Console Moi - Gérard est tellement passionné de jeux-vidéo qu'il en est venu à ignorer tout ce qui se passe autour de lui et à négliger sa petite amie Aline.
For the Love of the Game - Gérard no longer takes any interest in life except video games. Even his girlfriend Aline is now absent from his mind.
Videospiel "Tröste mich"  - Gérard hast sich so leidenschaftlich in Videospiele vertieft, dass er seine Umwelt vergisst und vor allem seine Freundin vernachlässigt.

UNICA FILM - SILVER MEDAL 2001
Gregor Theuss, jeunesse (DEU), DV - 18´

Am Ende des Seins (At the End of Existence)
An unsparing film, yet one which is both sensitive and tactful. It takes place in a hospital ward in which the essence of humanity has ceased to exist. This young man who undertook social work (instead of military service) in Germany and worked for a year in a ward of Alzheimer patients portrays a situation which might affect all of us one day, and yet is something which we prefer to ignore. He does not comment at all, but simply shows "the way it is" - and thus he forces us to think about the essence and dignity of being human, about the last ethical and moral questions which affect us all. And just as inevitably we are confronted with the dubiousness, even the hypocrisy of the current moral discussion about matters such as gene technology and related problems.


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Maribor pictureTOTI - 2nd INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2001
AWARDS

Place and date: Maribor, Slovenia, 16th September 2001.
Jury: Marjan Backo (SLO) - President of the jury, Kristijan Sande (SLO), Karol Steiner (SLO), Günther Agath (AUT), Ctirad Štipl (CZE).
Festival Officer: Valter Kvar (SLO). Festival Secretary: Alojz Krivec (SLO). Technician: Franz Kopik (SLO).
Documentary
  • Gold: VLATVA - Bernard Hausberger & Alfred Oberkofler (AUT)
  • Silver: NIAGARA - Josef Töbich (AUT)
  • Silver: V VETRU POJE STARI MLIN - Tincek Ivanuša (SLO)
Fiction
  • Gold: APPLES - Rolf Mandolesi (ITA)
  • Gold: DOLL - Iranian Young Cinema Society (IRN)
  • Bronze: ASOCIACION AREGENTINA DE ACTORES - Sebastian Alfie (ARG)
Experimental
  • Gold: P. CONNECTION - Manfred Rouleder (DEU)
  • Silver: IMPRESSION - Róka Ildikó & Móczár István (HON)
  • Bronze: DER BLICK DES ORPHEUS - Manfred Pilsz (AUT)
Animation
  • Gold: THE MOSQUITO AND THE HORSE - Mikki Rand (EST)
  • Silver: TO ŠE SPIJEMO PA GREMO - Franc Kopic (SLO)
  • Bronze: ELVIS UND FLIEGE - Julia Tews (DEU)
Diploma
  • LETICIA - Mestské kúlturne centrum (SVK)
  • HOTEL LIBERTAS - Daniel Šprah (SLO)
  • DIE BRÜCKE VON ANDAU - Erwin Sprenger (AUT)
  • VOM MYTHOS DER GÖTTER - Anton Wallner (DEU)
  • DOGONLAND - Uta Birk (AUT)
  • DA BOM LAZJE NOSIL - Franc Kopic (SLO)
  • DREAM OF THE CLAY -Calugaru Dumitri (ROM)
  • SIMILUAN - Josef Töbich (AUT)
  • GERUSALEMME PIANGE! - Lia Zanei (ITA)
  • EIN HEIMLICHER WALDARBEITER - Geotg Henpfling (DEU)
  • STILLSTAND - Filippo Lubiato (CHE)
  • THE BEAUTY AND THE BEATLE - Filippo Lubiato (CHE)
  • EINSAMKEIT - Horst Brücker (DEU)
  • DER LETZE TAG - Thomas Hoffman (DEU)
  • DIE QUALITÄTSPRÜFUNG - Lothar Sinnus (DEU)
  • UNA BELLA GIORNATA - Brunella Audello (ITA)
  • DER LETZTE ABENTEUER - Ralf Gerber (DEU)
  • HAPPY MEAL -Nancy & Gerd Dirks (NDL)
  • TEMIDA - Henryk Lehnert (POL)
  • HERRSCHAFT DER TÜRME - Werner Eichorn (DEU)
  • SOLAR DRIFTWOOD - Josef Töbich (AUT)
  • HERZ IST TRUMPF - Lothar Sinnus (DEU)
  • TÊZKÁ MINUTA - Martin Lánik (CZE)


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28th EULENSPIEGELEIN
the only world-wide non-professional film-festival of humour

* 25th (7 p.m.) - 27th (12 a.m.) January 2002 in Berlin - Rahnsdorf (Germany)

* Deadline for acceptance of entry forms and films: 15th January 2002

Humorous films may be of any genre. The films can be on VHS, S-VHS or Mini-DV. The running time of any film should not exceed 20 minutes. The films selected for presentation will be judged in public by an independent jury. The jury awards 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in order of merit. Furthermore numerous special awards will be given. Travelling and accommodation expenses have to be paid entirely by the author. To get more information or to make hotel reservations, please contact the following address:

FiViA Berlin
Dr. Ralf Köthnig
Director of the Festival
Immenweg 22
D - 16356 Eiche
tel: : (030) 93 49 12 56
email: pas-eiche@t-online.de

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logoUNICA PATRONAGE
8th A WINDOW FACING EAST - EIN FENSTER ZUM OSTEN
motto: Film and Video - Chronicle of Our Time.
date: 22nd - 24th March 2002
place: WABE, Danziger Str. 101, D - 10407 Berlin - Ernst Thälmann Park, Germany
films: Every type of movie dealing with the variety of human life.
Non-commercial films & videos, film-school films (all made after 1999)
Super 8, 16 mm, VHS, S-VHS (PAL/Secam), MiniDV
contact: Herr HasselbarthMr Rainer Hässelbarth
Pistoriusstraße 33
D - 13086 Berlin

email: ars.cinema@berlin.de
website: http://www.ars-cinema.de
email: rainer.haesselbarth@t-online.de
emai: Haesselbarth@gasag.de

closing: 1st February 2002
programme: Tier Park Hotel logo22nd
06.00 p.m. - Departure from the ABACUS Tierpark-Hotel to WABE.
07.00 p.m. - Opening of the festival, films and discussion.

23rd
09.30 a.m. - Sightseeing.
12.00 a.m. - Films and discussion.
09.30 p.m. - Arrival at ABACUS Tierpark-Hotel.
- Open ended workshop session

24th
10.00 a.m. - Awards ceremony in ABACUS Tierparkhotel


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Fast growing web portal with links to amateur film sites everywhere.


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