EcoVision - 1th edition

International Cinema & Environment Festival







JURY VERDICT May, 30 2005




The Jury of the 1st International Festival of Cinema & nvironment “EcoVision”, in Palermo (Italy) – composed by Gregorio Napoli, Chairman; Valerio Caprara; Ernesto G. Laura; with the advice by: Valerio Agnesi, Rita Cedrini; Maria Pia Farinella; Sergio Marino; Francesco Maria

“ECOVISION 2005” GRAND PRIZE

to Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (The story of weeping camel) by Byambasuren Daava and Luigi Falorni (Germany) for the refinement with which blend anthropological and environmental themes in a valuable performance of lyricism and documentary awesomeness.


“ECOVISION 2005” PRIZE FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM

to Al mare (To the sea) by Vito Palmieri (Italy) for the delicate exploration of sentiments in a contest of existential solitude.


“ECOVISION 2005” PRIZE FOR THE BEST ENVIRONMENTAL-SOCIOLOGICAL FILM

to Steklyanniy Ostrov (The glass island) by Aleksandr Avilov (Russia) for the ability to go over the traditional patterns of industrial documentary film, through a language based on the relationship between images, music and natural sounds.

SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL-SOCIOLOGICAL FILM

to The Old Man and His Stone Garden by Parzviz Kimiavi (Iran) for the clear and sharing glance with which documents the peculiar event of an unintentional artist in the contrast between his freedom spirit and the hopes of his village.



“ECOVISION 2005” PRIZE FOR THE BEST ECO-TOURIST FILM

to Once Upon a Time by Leandro Blanco (Spain) for the sobriety with which he figurates the instinctive strenght of an animal nature outstretched to own survival.

SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THE ECO-TOURIST FILM

to Sahara – The English Patient’s Desert by Michael Schlamberger (Austria) for the wideness of the geographical and human representation, upbeared by a remarkable figurative sensibility.

“ECOVISION 2005” PRIZE FOR THE BEST FILM OF THE “PANORAMA” SECTION

to ‘Na sciurnata longa (A long day) by Anna Bianco (Italy) for the measured melancholy in the portrait of an old woman, focalising the loneliness of the elders and the richness of the memory, without to devote to the temptation of pathetic.

SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THE PANORAMA SECTION

to After the Apocalypse) by Yasuaki Nakajima (United States) for the emphasis with which the symbolical representation of a post-nuclear future is shown on the screen, utilizing an incisive black & white photography.

“ECOVISION 2005” PRIZE FOR THE BEST FILM OF THE ECO-SCHOOL SECTION

to Agricultural Report by Melina Sydney Padua (Ireland) for the brain wave that consent – in a synthetic, fulminous film sequence – to illustrate the environmental themes.

SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THE ECO-SCHOOL SECTION

to “Litterbug” - The Adventures of Carlos Caterpiller by Robert Fernandez e Guillermo Bueno (United States / Spain) for the visual and musical playfulness of an animation tale.

A.R.P.A. (Regional Agency for the Environment) PRIZE

to Crown of Thorns Starfish – The Monster From the Shallows by Larry Zetlin (Australia) for the ability to catch – without renounce to a vivid, spectacular quality – the more unusual aspects of an environmental drama which threaten with the ecosystem.