Camerimage Poland

The 22nd edition of Camerimage in Poland, a festival that has its focus on cinemetography ended on the 22nd of November. The festival includes documentaries in its award-giving and distributes life-achievement awards as well. One was given to a well-known, world famous documentarian:

“It gives us great pleasure to announce that the recipient of this year’s Camerimage Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking will be Kim Longinotto (photo), one of the most acclaimed cinéma vérité filmmakers in the world, a true activist whose life’s mission is to shed light on the problems of women in different parts of the globe, and to inspire people to seek the change within themselves first.”

In the documentary category of this year’s competition two films were awarded, to the cameraman/men, two from Russia and one from Colombia:

Golden Frog — Grand Prix: Blood

cin. Yura Gautsel, Sergei Maksimov

dir. Alina Rudnitskaya

Special Mention: Monte Adentro

cin. Mauricio Vidal

dir. Nicolás Macario Alonso

http://www.camerimage.pl/en/Camerimage-2014-Winners.html

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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