EBS International Documentary Festival

EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF) is hosted by EBS, a national public television featuring educational and cultural programs in Korea. EIDF is one and only documentary festival through both screening and broadcasting at the same time. As Asia’s prestigious documentary festival, EIDF began in 2004 and highlighted on the documentary films which were focused on Asia or were made in Asia. However, EIDF has extended the interest to a variety of countries from around the world since 2004. Along with TV show case of outstanding non-fiction films on EBS TV channel including documentaries which are nominated at the Competitive Section, EIDF has many special events such as public screening, forums, director’s classes and exhibitions during the week of festival.

EIDF selects today’s best documentaries that look at the past, the present and the future of the world in depth and provides an opportunity for filmmakers to communicate with the audience through their works expressing diverse cultures and raising questions.

Contents

History

2004

  • Grand Prix : Last House Standing (Gan Chao, China, 2004)
  • Spirit Award : Journeys (Vinayan Kodoth, India, 2003)
  • Special Jury Award : Experimental Taiwanese Moon Academy (Wu Mi-Sen, Taiwan, 2003)
  • Audience Award : Mr. Cortisone, Happy Days (Shlomi Shir and Duki Dror, Israel, 2004)

2005

  • Grand Prix : Bunso-The Youngest (Ditsi Carolino, Philippines, 2004)
  • Spirit Award : Little Birds (Takeharu Watai, Japan, 2005)
  • Special Jury Award : The Concrete Revolution (Xialou Guo, China, 2004)
  • Audience Award : School Among Glaciers (Dorji Wangchuk, Bhutan, 2005)

2006

  • Dimitri Eipides
  • Sato Makoto
  • Claire Aguilar
  • Yoav Shamir
  • Lee Sung-moo
  • Grand Prix : Out of Bounds (Alexandre Leborgne and Pierre Barougier, France, 2005)
  • Spirit Award : Innocence (Nisa Kongsri and Areeya Chumsai, Thailand, 2005)
  • Special Jury Award : Smiling in a War Zone (Simone Aaberg Kaern and Magnus Bejmar, Denmark, 2005)
  • Audience Award : Our Own Private Bin Laden (Samira Goetschel, Canada & Switzerland, 2005)

2007

  • Grand Prix : Puujee (Kazuya Yamada, Japan, Mongolia, 2006)
  • Spirit Award : The Cats of Mirikitani (Linda Hattendorf, USA, 2006)
  • Special Jury Award : Shame (Mohammed Ali Naqvi, Pakistan, USA, 2006)
  • Audience Award : To Live-Save Our Saemankum (Kang-Gil Lee, Korea, 2006)
  • Honorable Mention by the Jury : Made in Korea: A One Way Ticket to Amsterdam? (In-Soo Radstake, Netherlands, Korea, 2006)

2008

  • Christine Choy
  • Antoine Coppola
  • Ikeya Kaoru
  • Lee Jung Ok
  • Lee Choong Jik
  • Grand Prix : If We Knew (Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster, The Netherlands, 2007)
  • Spirit Award : The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins (Pietra Brettkelly, New Zealand, 2008)
  • Special Jury Award : Suddenly, Last Winter (Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi, Italy, 2008)
  • Audience Award : Hear and Now (Irene Taylor Brodsky, USA, 2007)
  • Honorable Mention by the Jury :
The Red Race (Gan Chao, China, 2008), The Demons of Eden (Alejandra Islas, Mexico, 2007)

2009

  • Grand Prix : Unmistaken Child (Nati Baratz, Israel, 2009)
  • Spirit Award : Apology of an Economic Hit Man (Stelios Koul, Greece, 2008)
  • Special Jury Award : Gaza-Sderot. Pre-War Chronicles (Serge Gordey and others, Israel, Palestine, France, 2009)
  • Audience Award : Unmistaken Child (Nati Baratz, Israel, 2009)
  • Honorable Mention by the Jury :
About Face: The Story of Gwendellin Bradshaw (Mary Katzke, USA, 2009), RIP: A Remix Manefesto (Brett Gaylor, Canada, 2009)

2010

  • Pepe Danquart
  • Monique Simard
  • Atef Dalgamouni
  • Park Bong Nam
  • Lee Jeong Ook
  • Grand Prix : Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, Canada, 2009)
  • Spirit Award : Disco and Atomic War (Jaak Kilmi, Estonia,Finland, 2009)
  • Special Jury Award : Space Tourists (Christian Frei, Switzerland, 2009)
  • UNICEF Special Award : Planet of Snail (Yi Seung-Jun, Korea, 2010)
  • Audience Award : Planet of Snail (Yi Seung-Jun, Korea, 2010)

2011

  • <Festival choice>
  • Mark LEWIS
  • Bill NICHOLS
  • RETEL HELMRICH
  • ZHANG Xien min
  • YU Gina
  • <Issues in Education>
  • Morten Møller Warmedal
  • Fukiko KISAICHI
  • LEE jung OK
  • Festival choice Grand Prix : Marathon Boy, directed by Gemma ATWAL( USD 10000 )
  • Issues in Education Grand Prix : World Class Kids, directed by Netta LOEVY( USD 10000 )
  • Spirit Award : The Green Wave, directed by Ali Samadi AHADI( USD 7000 )
  • Special Jury Award : The Castle, directed by Massimo D'ANOLFI Martina PARENTI( USD 5000 )
  • UNICEF Special Award : How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming?, directed by Roberts RUBINS( USD 5000 )
  • Audience Award : Marathon Boy, directed by Gemma ATWAL( USD 3000 )

Awards

Will be awarded in the main Competition Section of EIDF, Festival Choice

  • Grand Prix (KRW 10,000,000) : Awarded to the most complete and elaborate documentary among the twelve nominees in the EIDF main competition
  • Spirit Award (KRW 7,000,000) : Awarded to the documentary among the twelve nominees for the EIDF main competition that best reveals the director's artistic spirit and genuine message according to the theme of each year's EIDF
  • Special Jury Award (KRW 5,000,000) : Awarded to the documentary among the twelve nominees for the EIDF main competition that shows outstanding approach in experimentation and form
  • UNICEF special Award (KRW 5,000,000) : Among the existing entries, awarded to the films which contain children related contents or have hopeful messages for children
  • Audience Award (KRW 3,000,000) : Awarded to the documentary among the twelve nominees for the EIDF main competition that receives the most votes over the online and offline voting system

Special Events

  • Master's Class of EIDF 2009 : Kaori Sakagami (Out of Frame: Search for Alternatives through Documentary Filmmaking), Thom Andersen (Get out of the Media) & Yves Jeanneau (Sunny or Cloudy?: International Co-Production)
  • Director's Class of EIDF 2009 : Mary Katzke & Nati Baratz (Character Driven Documentary Storytelling), Karen Michael (Documentary of the Multiplatform Era), Andrei Dascalescu (Emerging Film Director), Sally Gutierrez Dewar (Micro-narratives, Gender and How We Document) & Stelios Koul (Finctional Documentary)
  • Special Class of EIDF 2009 : Simon El Habre, Award-winner of Best Documentary at HOTDOCs 2009 (For International Competence in Documentary-making: The Interaction of Structure and Editing)

EIDF Documentary Fund (EDF)

EIDF has launched EIDF Documentary Fund (EDF) assisting projects to develop and supply documentary contents for better quality. EDF has attracted many documentary directors and reinforced the works of documentaries in development. EDF announced that the Best Choice of EIDF 2009 is The Hazy Journey of the Illuminating Tree directed by Yi Seung Jun, and the winner will gain the financial support of KRW 30,000,000. Moreover, the winner's final production will be shown on the 7th EIDF in 2010.

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