Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival

The Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival is a space for celebrating, discovering and analysing the form of cinema generically grouped under the heading of ‘documentary’. It is held annually in Pamplona (Spain) in February, and is organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Regional Government of Navarre.

Punto de Vista phttp://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/button_link.pngaid tribute to the director of Zero de Conduite on the centenary of his birth in 2005. Luce Vigo, film critic and daughter of Vigo and Elizabeth Lozinska, attended that year. The festival provided an opportunity to look back on Vigo’s entire filmography and also represented the first step in a relationship which has now fructified in the form of this award.

The Festival took its name, Punto de Vista (Point of View), as a tribute to Vigo, the first director to refer, back in the 30’s, to a “documented point of view” as a distinctive sign of a form of filmmaking which commits the filmmaker.

Prix Jean Vigo for the best director

The Prix Jean Vigo aims to strengthen both the spirit which inspired the festival in the first place and its commitment to the work of Jean Vigo. The creation of this prize has been made possible thanks to the close ties between Punto de Vista and the family of the great French filmmaker.

This is the first prize in Spain associated with the memory of the director of L´Atalante, but in France, the Prix Jean Vigo is closely related to some of the best filmmaking of the last 50 years. The Prix Jean Vigo was created in France in 1951 as a means of promoting young filmmakers with the greatest prospects. Figures such as Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Claude Chabrol and Jean-Luc Godard can all be named among its winners.

Results

PUNTO DE VISTA FESTIVAL 2005. PRIZES:

(Pamplona, February 18-25)
*“Point-of-View” First Prize for the best film: Checkpoint, by Yoav Shamir (Israel).
*Prize for the Best Short Film: Good Times, by Alessandro Cassigoli and Dalia Castel (Italia-Israel).
*Prize for the Best Director: Peter Kerekes, for “66 Seasons” (Slovakia).
*Prize for the Best Screenplay: “Wetback-The undocumented documentary”, by Arturo Pérez Torres (Canada).
*Audience’s Special Prize: “Bandits”, by Zaza Rusadze (Georgia).
*Special mentions: “Platicando”/Chatting”, by Mª Luisa Lafuente (Spain), and “Dr Nagesh”, by Vicent Detours and Dominique Henry (Belgium).

PUNTO DE VISTA FESTIVAL 2006. PRIZES:
*PUNTO DE VISTA PRIZE for the best documentary , exaequo, to Sonia, by Nathalie Delaunoy and Melodías, by François Bovy.
*PRIZE FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR (3,500 €) to François Bovy for Melodías.
*BEST SHORT FILM (4,000 €) to Un pont sur la drina by Xavier Lukomski.
*SPECIAL MENTIONS (1,000 €):
La casa de mi abuela, by Adán Aliaga.
Phantom Limb, by Jay Rosenblatt.
Tierra negra, by Ricardo Íscar.
*AUDIENCE’S SPECIAL PRIZE (2,500 €): The Play, by Pelin Esmer.

External links

* [http://www.puntodevista.navarra.es Official Site]
* [http://www.cfnavarra.es/puntodevista/pdv_web/secciones/noticias/07_ver_noticia_cas.asp?idnoticia=45&i=1&s=7 Noticia del Premio Jean Vigo al mejor director]
* [http://www.miradas.net/2006/n48/actualidad/articulo2.html Reportaje sobre la segunda edición de Punto de Vista en Miradas.net]
* [http://www.trendesombras.com/num4/art_ptovista2005.asp Reportaje de la primera edición de Punto de Vista en Trendesombras.com] Tren de sombras
* [http://www.elmundo.es/papel/2006/02/21/cultura/1933113.html Reportaje en el diario El Mundo ]
* [http://es.wikinews.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovski_y_el_cine_ensayo_en_el_Festival_Punto_de_Vista_2007 Avance de programación 2007]

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