IDFA Awards
From press release of IDFA: The winners of the various IDFA competition programs were announced Friday, November 25 in Escape, during the awards ceremony of the 24th IDFA. Seung-Jun Yi’s Planet of Snail (South Korea) won the VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary. The Special Jury Award went to 5 Broken Cameras (Palestine/Israel) by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, who also won the Publieke Omroep IDFA Audience Award. The film received financial support from the Jan Vrijman Fund.
WINNERS & AWARDS
VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary (€ 12,500) Seung-Jun Yi – Planet of Snail (South Korea)
Special Jury Award
Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi – 5 Broken Cameras(Palestine/Israel/Netherlands/France)
NTR IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary (€ 10,000)
Jorge Gaggero – Montenegro (Argentina)
IDFA Award for First Appearance (€ 5,000)
Xun Yu – The Vanishing Spring Light (China/Canada)
Dioraphte IDFA Award for Dutch Documentary (€ 5,000)
Jessica Gorter – 900 Days
Publieke Omroep IDFA Audience Award (€ 5.000)
Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi – 5 Broken Cameras(Palestine/Israel/Netherlands/France)
IDFA Award for Student Documentary (€ 2,500)
Karen Winther – The Betrayal (UK/Norway)
BlackBerry IDFA DOC U Award (€ 1,500)
Mehrdad Oskouei – The Last Days of Winter (Iran)
IDFA Award for Best Green Screen Documentary (€ 2,500)
Micha X. Peled – Bitter Seeds(USA/India)
IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling (€ 2,500)
Antoine Viviani – Insitu (France)