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Uruguay and USA win top awards at Rotterdam
During the 2006 Awards Ceremony on Friday, February 5, 2006 in Concert and Congress Centre 'de Doelen' in Rotterdam, the winning films of the 35th International Film Festival Rotterdam were announced. The three VPRO Tiger Awards were granted to 'Walking on the Wild Side' (Lia Xiao Zi) by Han Jie (China/France), The Dog Pound (La Perrera) by Manuel Nieto Zas (Uruguay/Argentina/Canada/Spain), and 'Old Joy' by Kelly Reichardt (United States). Fourteen
films by first or second filmmakers competed in 'the VPRO Tiger
Awards' Competition 2006. The Jury consists of Pierre Audi (artistic
director Holland Festival and artistic director De Nederlandse Opera,
The Netherlands), Paulo Branco (film producer, France), Lee Chang-Dong
(filmmaker, South Korea, Jury Chair), Martin Rejtman (filmmaker,
Argentina), Patrice Toye (filmmaker, Belgium). Each VPRO Tiger Award
comes with a prize of Euro 10,000 and guaranteed broadcast by Dutch
public television network VPRO. Selecting 'Walking on the Wild Side', the jury stated "in an unexpected China filled with exploding contradictions, the movie portrays with fine accuracy, the despair of the young generation. Beautifully acted and directed." In its statement on 'The Dog Pound' it stated the film unfolds with a deceptively slow rhythm, involving us in the life of a young man who throughout the film is constructing a house, building at the same time a world for himself." Continuing the statement said ‘Old Joy seems to come from the literary tradition of the American short story and becomes a truly cinematic experience that plunges the spectator into an inner journey about friendship, nature and the passing of time’. Among the other awards the NETPAC Award was given to two films 'The Lost Hum' by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan, 2006) and The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by van Auraeus Solito (Philippines, 2005) . The NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Jury, consisted of Raman Shawla (Director of Osian's Cinfan Festival of Asian Cinema, India), programmer Christine Huang (Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan) and producer Peggy Chiao (Arc Light Films, Taiwan). The jury of the international association of film critics FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique), consisting of Antonia Kovacheva (TRUD, Bulgaria, Jury Chair), Neil Young (BBC Radio Newcastle, UK), Barbara Schweizerhof (Freitag, Germany), Carlos Helí (Jornal Do Brasil, Brazil), Mariska Graveland (De Filmkrant, The Netherlands) awarded its FIPRESCI Prize to Madeinusa by Claudia Llosa (Peru/Spain, 2005). The jury stated "Many films in this year's VPRO Tiger Awards Competition dealt with the relationships between children and their parents, often within isolated communities. Fathers were killed, innocence was lost, and both fluids were spilled. There is one film however in which all of this happens... in an especially surprising, intelligent and accessible way. For these reasons, the winner of the International Critics Prize is: Madeinusa by Claudia Llosa". The jury of the KNF, the Association of Dutch film critics, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam chose 'Look Both Ways' by Van Sarah Watt (Australia, 2005). The Award of the KNF is meant to promote the acquisition for distribution within The Netherlands. The winners of the Tiger Awards for short films are 'Beginnings' by Roy Villevoye (The Netherlands, 2006) and the animation 'Rabbit' by Run Wrake (United Kingdom, 2005) and 'Who I am and What I Want' by David Shrigley and Chris Shepherd (United Kingdom, 2005). The Tiger Awards for Short Films, three equal prizes of Euro 3,000 were presented by a jury consisting of: Bianca Stigter (filmcritic, The Netherlands), Johan Grimonprez (filmmaker, Belgium) and John Smith (filmmaker, United Kingdom). The winner of the first 'Prix UIP Rotterdam' for short films (prize money: Euro 2,000) was presented to 'Meander' by Joke Liberge (Belgium, 2005). The European Film Academy and UIP present a Prix UIP at fourteen film festivals across Europe. The prize includes Euro 2,000 and automatic nomination for the European Film Awards, the 1,600 members of the European Film Academy then vote for the winner. The 'MovieSquad Award'- Rotterdam young people's jury, consisting of Jelle (16), Nienke (19), Nina (20), Ozella (17) and Simon (18) chose the winner out of seventeen films in the official Rotterdam 2006 selection. The award comprises Dutch distribution within the MovieZone educational film programme for young people and Euro 2,000 to be spent on its promotion among young people in The Netherlands. The jury presented the Golden MovieSquad Shield to director Alexis Dos Santos for his film 'Glue' (Argentina, 2006), supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and selected for the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2006. MovieSquad is an initiative of the Nederlands Instituut voor Filmeducatie (Dutch Institute for Film Education) in collaboration with the International Film Festival Rotterdam. This
year's Prince Claus Fund, a film grant aims at supporting the first
creative phase of the development of a film production was awarded
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