This year, for the first time, at the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Con­test „the Pic­ture of the world” organ­ised in the frames of Doc­u­ment­ary Sec­tion of the Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival of the Art of Cine­ma­to­graphy PLUS CAM­ERAIM­AGE, under the pat­ron­age of Dis­cov­ery Net­works Cent­ral Europe, it was pos­sible to sub­mit applic­a­tions for two tem­poral cat­egor­ies: short – and full-​length one.

The jury, com­posed sep­ar­ately for each of the cat­egor­ies, will decide on who will receive Grand Prix — the Golden Frog award. Addi­tion­ally, inde­pend­ently from the jury’s decision, the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Section’s pat­ron will for the first time in his­tory give the statuettes of Dis­cov­ery Net­works Cent­ral Europe.

12 full-​length doc­u­ment­ar­ies have been qual­i­fied for the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Con­test, includ­ing „Yodok Stor­ies” by Andrzej Fidyk. Fidyk’s doc­u­ment­ary will com­pete with films which have received awards at fest­ivals such as Hot Docs, Dok Leipzig, Krakow Film Fest­ival or Sil­ver­docs. These films include, among oth­ers, „Unmis­taken Child”, „Blind Loves”, “Burma VJ”,“Rene”.

The prize will be awar­ded by the jury, com­posed of:

Lech Majew­ski( The Jury’s Pres­id­ent), dir­ector, scriptwriter

Bar­bara Bilińska, Dis­cov­ery Net­work Cent­ral Europe, Chan­nel Dir­ector Poland

Karl Wal­ter Linden­laub, pho­to­grapher

Lawrence Grobel, writer — the author of bio­graph­ies of Mar­lon Brando, Tru­man Capote, Al Pacino, UCLA, Los Angeles, lecturer

Louis – Phil­ippe Capelle, pho­to­grapher

There are 22 doc­u­ment­ar­ies in the Short-​Length Doc­u­ment­ary Film, includ­ing 9 Pol­ish productions:

“Glasstrap” — dir. Paweł Fer­dek, pho­to­graphy: Woj­ciech Staroń

“Incant­a­tio” — dir. Tomek Wyso­kiński, pho­to­graphy: Michał Popiel-​Machnicki

“Mother” — dir. Jakub Piątek, pho­to­graphy: Michał Sta­jniak

“Poste rest­ante” — dir. Mar­cel Łoziński, pho­to­graphy: Jacek Petrycki

“Flight­less Birds” — dir. Michał Daw­id­ow­icz, pho­to­graphy: Jan Prosiński

“Rab­bit a la Ber­lin” - dir. Bar­tosz Konopka, pho­to­graphy: Piotr Rosołowski

“Side-​track” — dir. Anna Kazejak, pho­to­graphy: Jakub Giza

“Six Weeks” — dir. Mar­cin Janos-​Krawczyk, pho­to­graphy: Woj­ciech Staroń

“Bajki z krainy pieców…” — dir. Andrzej B. Czulda, pho­to­graphy: Jacek Siwecki

People judging the short-​length doc­u­ment­ary films include:

Erik Daarstad, film photographer

Jerzy Zieliński, film photographer

Johannes Kirch­lech­ner, film photographer

John Dyson, journ­al­ist, writer

Magda Szcza­w­ińska, Dis­cov­ery Net­work Cent­ral Europe, Chan­nel Man­ager Hun­gary, Czech Repub­lic and Slovakia

Fest­ival Plus Camer­im­age starts on 28^th Novem­ber and lasts to 5^th Decem­ber. More inform­a­tion on the web­site: www​.pluscamerimage​.pl

(16.11.2009)