ZagrebDox

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ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival

ZagrebDox 2008 masthead
Location Zagreb, Croatia
Founded 2005
Awards Veliki pečat
Mali pečat
Number of films 145
Language International
Official website

ZagrebDox is an international documentary film festival established by Nenad Puhovski in 2005 and held annually in Zagreb, Croatia.

It is the biggest festival of its kind in South East Europe and its goals are to showcase documentary films from the region as well as to provide a meeting place for authors from all over the world, to offer quality documentary features to local audiences and to help promote documentary film as one of the basic film genres. Apart from screenings, the festival usually organizes workshops, presentations and pitching forums designed to help aspiring film authors in developing their projects. In addition to the official competition program (which is divided into a regional and an international category), the festival often features retrospectives of well-known authors and various national cinemas.

The festival is organized by a Zagreb-based film production company called Factum, and is usually held in February . The 2008 edition featured 140 films from 30 countries and attracted an audience of around 20,000 people.

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[edit] Awards

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

  • The Veliki pečat (Big Stamp) international award for best film in international competition, as voted by jury
  • The Veliki pečat regional award for best film in regional competition, as voted by jury
  • The Mali pečat (Little Stamp) award for best film made by authors who are under 30 years of age, as voted by jury
  • The T-Com Audience Award for best film overall, as voted by audiences

[edit] Award winners

[edit] Veliki pečat international competition award

Year Film Director
2005
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
(Melancholian 3 huonetta)
Flag of Finland Pirjo Honkasalo
2006
Before Flying Back to Earth
(Prieš parskrendant į žemę)
Flag of Lithuania Arūnas Matelis
2007
Civil Status
(Grajdanskoe sostoianie)
Flag of Russia Alina Rudnitskaya
2008
War/Dance
Flag of the United States Sean Fine
Flag of the United States Andrea Nix Fine

[edit] Veliki pečat regional competition award

Year Film Director
2005
Images from the Corner
(Slike s ugla)
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina Jasmila Žbanić
2006
Totally Personal
(Sasvim lično)
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nedžad Begović
2007
Europe Next Door
(Evropa preko plota)
Flag of Serbia Želimir Žilnik
2008
Weddings and Diapers
(Darsmat dhe pampersat)
Flag of the United States Casey Cooper Johnson &
Flag of Kosovo Antoneta Kastrati Cooper Johnson

[edit] Mali pečat young director award

Year Film Director
2005
Life in Peace
(Mirnaya zhizn)
Flag of Switzerland Antoine Cattin
Flag of Russia Pavel Kostomarov
2006
The Angelmakers
Flag of the Netherlands Astrid Bussink
2007
The Grandmothers of Revolution
(Babice revolucije)
Flag of Slovenia Petra Seliškar
2008
Audience of One
Flag of the United States Michael Jacobs

[edit] T-Com Audience Award

Year Film Director
2005*
Direkt (40) Without Dad
(Direkt (40) Bez tate)
Children of the Decree
(Das Experiment 770 - Gebären auf Befehl)
Flag of Croatia Nebojša Slijepčević

Flag of Romania Florin Iepan
2006
wasn't awarded
2007
Blue Blood
Flag of the United Kingdom Stevan Riley
2008
All White in Barking
Flag of the United Kingdom Marc Isaacs
*(In 2005 the award was called Veliki pečat audience award. In 2007 it was reintroduced and renamed T-Com Audience Award for sponsorship reasons.)

[edit] Special awards

Apart from the regular categories, the festival sometimes awards special prizes, usually related to themes of a particular festival edition.

Year Award Film Director
2006
Best film in the
Sports and Music theme program
The Human Hambone
Flag of the United States Mark Morgan
2008
International Critics' Jury Award
The Devil Came on Horseback

Audience of One
Flag of the United States Ricki Stern &
Flag of the United States Anne Sundberg

Flag of the United States Michael Jacobs
2008
Amnesty International Award
All White in Barking
Flag of the United Kingdom Marc Isaacs

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