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7th BuSho International Short Film Festival wrapped. Out of 962 entries, this year’s pre-jury selected 93 movies in the competition program which were watched by the National Student Jury and the international jury together with the audience. The members of the international jury were: Djinn Carrénard, young filmmaker from France, Riina Mikkonen, organiser of the Tampere Film Festival, Miomir Rajcevic, director of the Belgrade Media Centre, Kocsis Ágnes director and Wolfgang Leis marketing expert.
Besides the beautiful statues created by Solide Art Ltd. this time again awards were offered by Hungarian Filmunio, Kodak, the National Digital Data Archive, the Soltész Advertising Agency and Extreme Digital.

Firstly, the members of the National Student Jury (Tóháti Zsuzsa, Vargha Márk Péter, Nemes-Jeles Veronika) went on stage and explained their decision:
„The Special Mention prize goes to a movie that doesn’t aim at showing more than what fits into 15 min, and refuses to involve unnecessary threads. It represents the theme in a simple, contained manner but to great effect. This film is a real short.”

ZOMBORÁCZ VIRÁG: VALAMI KÉK / SOMETHING BLUE (HUNGARY)

„The animation Special Mention award is offered to a film that is only partly animation. The animated and the real parts are well developed in themselves, but their adjusting is also outstanding. Although the jury would fancy continuing their lives in a cartoon, we understand that the heroine of Out of Erasers refuses to, as the world depicted in the movie is grim and dark-.”
ERIK ROSENLUND: OUT OF ERASERS / ELFOGYOTT A RADÍR (SWEDEN – DENMARK)

„ The main prize of the National Student Jury goes to the Spanish The Screamers, which is, according to the jury’s unanimous opinion, is an outstanding piece of this year’s huge competition section. A joke of strong effect, put aptly into short form, grows into a story on the screen due to the harmonic cooperation of the actor instruction, the cast and the photography.”
ROBERTO PEREZ TOLEDO: LOS GRITONES / THE SCREAMERS / KIÁLTOZÓK (SPAIN)

The organisers, having thanked for the students’ work, went on to the international jury awards which were handed over in the name of the jury by Wolfgang Leis to the filmmakers present at the ceremony. To everyone’s great pleasure, the awarded arrived in a row to take over the prizes.

BuSho Award 2011 BEST ANIMATION
BERTÓTI ATTILA: ARIADNÉ FONALA / ARIADNE'S THREAD (ROMANIA – HUNGARY)

BuSho Award 2011 BEST EXPERIMENTAL
ILLÉS ISTVÁN: TRACK32 (HUNGARY)

BuSho Award 2011 BEST IDEA/SCREENPLAY
DÉSI ANDRÁS GYÖRGY - MÓRAY GÁBOR: AZ UTOLSÓ KÉP / THE LAST PICTURE (HUNGARY)

BuSho Award 2011 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
KÁRPÁTI GYÖRGY MÓR: ERDŐ / FOREST, OPERATŐR: HARTUNG DÁVID (HUNGARY)
       
BuSho Award 2011 BEST COMEDY
FRANÇOIS PAQUAY: LE CON / THE IDIOT (BELGIUM)

BuSho Award 2011 BEST PERFORMANCE / BEST „SCREAMERS”
ROBERTO PEREZ TOLEDO: LOS GRITONES / THE SCREAMERS (SPAIN)
SZEREPLŐK: RUTH ARMAS ÉS FRAN RODRÍGUEZ CASTILLO

BuSho Award 2011 BEST COLLECTION:
AGENCIA FREAK (SPAIN)

Before the announcement of the main awards of the 7th BuSho, Miomir Rajcevic, member of the international jury resumed the jury’s evaluation. He told the audience that they had seen a high quality programme at a well organised festival, however he emphasised that one thing had been missing: unfortunately, the participation of the Hungarian filmmakers in competition was again very low.

BuSho 2011 main prize BRONZE BUSHO
For creating a coherent metaphorical world.
GUILHAD EMÍLIO SCHENKER: LAVAL / WHITE / FEHÉR (ISRAEL)

BuSho 2011 main prize SILVER BUSHO
For a realistic, emotional and balanced representation of solidarity.
ANCA MIRUNA LAZARESCU: APELE TAC / SILENT RIVER / CSENDES FOLYÓ (GERMANY – ROMANIA)

BuSho 2011 main prize GOLD BUSHO
For an original way of depicting human nature.
KOTE CAMACHO: LA GRAN CARRERA / THE GREAT RACE / A NAGY VERSENY (SPAIN)

After the awarding ceremony, all the prize-winning movies were screened, while the organisers and the jury members gave interviews. Kocsis Ágnes said the following:
"In the past 10 years, the technical standard of short films has rocketed. Apparently more and more filmmakers make shorts. However, it also means that more and more young directors are involved in the genre, and so the stories are less thought over. Of course, there were outstanding, almost perfect movies as well in the programme. The freedom of an artist does not necessarily mean the freedom of thought, because what he invents has to be realised as well.  And for this, money is inevitable!"
Thanks to all the co-operators and the Motion Picture Art Department of the Ministry of National Resources for its support. See you in 2012 at the 8th BuSho festival!