ZagrebDox 2015/ 2

Awards were given out last night in Zagreb. ”Virunga” (photo) by Orlando von Einsiedel got the Big Stamp for best film in International Competition with mentions to Finnish ”Garden Lovers” by Virpi Suutari and Polish Hanna Polak for ”Something Better to Come”.

In the Regional Competition Hungarian Marcell Gerö got the Big Stamp with a mention to ”Russian” by Damir Ibrahimovic and Eldar Emric from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The festival has a section for ”best film of a young author up to 35 years of age” – the winner was ”Another Hungary-The Life of a Village-Fragments” by Dénes Nagy with a mention to ”Veruda – a Film About Bojan” by Croatian Igor Bezinovic. Congratulations young people!

”Movies that Matter” (hopefully they all do..) award to films ”that promotes human rights in a best way” went to ”Rich Hill” by Tracy Droz Dragos and Andrew Droz Palermo, whereas ”Virunga” received a mention to add to its many recognitions.

Finally, young people in the Teen Dox Jury gave an award to ”best film about issues concerning the young”: ”Maidentrip” by Jillian Schlesinger from USA.

Read more on the site of the festival: zagrebdox.net

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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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