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5TH
MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
LISTOF
AWARDS WINNING FILMS OF MIFF'1998
BEST
FILM IN VIDEO COMPETITION IN NON-FICTION CATEGORY
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A
SEASON OUTSIDE
Director
- Amar Kanwar Country - India
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| Synopsis:
A Season Outside is a film about understanding
the essential concepts of non-violence as a philosophy
and a way of life. The documentary travels through
different dimensions of conflict, seeking the wisdom
that could help transform conflict, through a process
of humanisation. The film reaches out in a strength-giving
exploration of the relevance, meaning and tremendous
power of active non-violence. |
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DIRECTOR'S
BIO-DATA : Studied cinema at the Mass Communication
Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Has carved a niche for himself, with award winning
documentaries such as On The Edge of Time, Echoes
From the Work Site and Talash. He has worked extensively
on varied issues.
CONTACT
ADDRESS : Foundation for Universal Responsibity
UGF, Zone 4 A, India Habitat centre Lodhi Road,
New Delhi - 110 003. Ph: 91-11-4648450 Fax: 91-11-4648451.
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SECOND
BEST ANIMATION FILM (MIFF'1998)
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CIDERPUNKS
Director
- Joel Simon Country - Ireland / United Kingdom
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| Synopsis:
This animated "mockumentary" brings a humorous
insight to the frantic, Belfast based life of Becky
Donduffin, aged 17 and her circle of friends who
share a passion for nihilism, protest, body-priercing
and army surplus clothing. The preponderance of
peer-pressure and escapism in the teenager's lives
are clerly the main themes reflecting on the issues
at stake. |
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DIRECTOR'S
BIO-DATA : Born 1973. Has studied video production
graphic design, photography, journalism visual
arts at various institutes. As a student placement,
he has worked in television and animation studios.
This is his debut film.
CONTACT
ADDRESS : Angus Sneddon South Parade, Belfast
BT7 2GN Ireland Fax: 1232-438566 Email: ni.deafyouth@dnet.co.uk
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BEST
ANIMATION FILM (MIFF'1998)
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I
MOVE, SO I AM
Director
- Gerrit Van Dijk Country - Netherlands
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| Synopsis:
A drawing of a hand that in turn draws, animated
hands, shoulders, heads, legs past, present, future,
developing his technique. The artist animates a
hand and animating a man that becomes the artist.
Portraits moving portraits, searching, moving, impulsive,
never still. For him, still life has no life at
all. Easch picture has the right to movement. The
right to exist. |
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DIRECTOR'S
BIO-DATA : Born 1938. After completing his
education at the Academy of Arts and Architecture
in Tilburg, he became involved in multi-disciplinary
projects in collaboration with other artists.
As an extension of his work as painter, he became
active as filmmaker. Since 1971 animation films
as moving paintings have been the essence of his
work.
CONTACT
ADDRESS : Cilia van Dijk, Ged. Voldergrach
20, 2011 WD Haarlem, The Netherlands Fax: 31-23-542
1067.
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SECOND
BEST FILM OF 60 MINUTES DURATION OR LESS IN FICTION
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THE
FILM OF HER
Director
- Bill Morrison Country - USA / Italy
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| Synopsis:
Using archival film as tis medium The Film of
Her tells the story of a clerk who rediscovers an
ancient film collection in the vaults of t he Library
of Congress. For the legal purposes, this collection
had been printed on paper. Consequently these prints
had survived, while the volatile nitrate originals
had long since disappeared. The memory of an early
porn actress inspires him in his struggle to save
her, the collection and himself from obscurity. |
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DIRECTOR'S
BIO-DATA : Award-winning filmamer Bill Morrison
has been described as "Meticulous maker who lovingly
combines original and archival material, often
optically printed rewiteen and re-scored in dreamy
new cine-poems" (Craig Baldwin).
CONTACT
ADDRESS : Bill Morrison 54 East, 7th Street,
No.1 New York, NY 100003 USA Ph: 1-212-2545009
Fax: 1-212-4738268.
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BEST FILM OF 60 MINUTES DURATION OR LESS IN FICTION
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LITTLE
PRELUDES (MIKRA PRELUDIA)
Director
- Vangelis Kalambakas Country - Switzerland
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| Synopsis:
Inside a flat in a residential building, ayoung
girl studies J.S. Bach's Little Prelude in Dminor
on the piano. After the completion of the musical
piece, the film transports the viewver successively
into five neighbouring flats, where the sound of
the piano has simultaneously penetrated. In each
of these spaces we meet a single occupant in a characteristic
solitary activity, which unflods in exactly the
same time-frame as the performance of the prelude
and sends its own acoustic signals to the adjacent
spaces. |
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DIRECTOR'S
BIO-DATA : Born 1958. Studied Architecture
at the Athens Polytechnic and Filmmaking at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since
1987 he has been working between Greece and India
as a documentary cinematographer and producer.
Little Preludes is his first film as director.
CONTACT
ADDRESS : Filmsixteen 437-39 Acharnon, GR-11143
Athens, Greece Telfax: 30-1-2185535 Email: kalambakas@bol.gr
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