One World festival dates announced
January 16th, 2007 by Zsofia
From February 28 to March 8, 2007, the 9th edition of the One World International Documentary Film Festival will take place in Prague. The festival base will be at the Lucerna Cinema in the city centre, advence booking starts on February 19.
In the Main Competition, films compete for the Best Film Award and the Best Director Award. The 2007 jury will include prominent filmmakers, such as renowned Brazilian director Maria Ramos who is currently based in the Netherlands, and Mexican filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo, the author of The Pit, a documentary awarded at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Other jury members include Philippine director and multiple award-winner Nick Deocampo, Czech documentary filmmaker Miroslav Janek, the author of Vierka, and German director Jens Schanze, last year’s Best Director Award-winner with his Winter’s Children, The Silent Generation.
The Short Forms Competition covers experimental and animated human-rights-oriented films of under 35 minutes competing for the Mayor of Prague’s Best Short Film Award. The jury will be composed of Cara Mertes (Sundance), Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen (IDFA - Amsterdam), Ana Isabel Santos Strindberg (Doc Lisboa, Portugal), Amir Labaki (It’s All True, Brazil) and Karel Och (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival).
For more info, visit the One World website.
