Karlovey Vary International Film Festival - KVIFF

Karlovey Vary International Film Festival - KVIFF


When:  July 1-9, 2011


Where:  West Bohemia, Czech Republic


Submission Deadline:  April 1st, 2011

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, KVIFFThe KVIFF was originally founded in 1946.  The Festival shortly thereafter had its direction taken away from the artists and film enthusiasts by government officials and their socialist views in 1948.

The Communist government would control all the content of the Festival, using it as a platform to push their propaganda.  After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, political and social changes left the Festival unmanned by any government control, whereas the artists were ten able to regain control and insight in the early 1990's.

At its infancy all over again, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Anderson, Milos Forman, and Annette Benning were there to let the world know the KVIFF was an important figure in world cinema and was there to stay in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

  

The Festival is made up of a series of categories for Films in Competition.  The main part of the competition is the Competition of Feature-Length Films where the films screened have been approved by the FIAPF for being a film that has not previously screened at any other International Festival.  This segment of the competition has the following awards: the Grand Prix Crystal Globe for best feature and $20,000 which can augment their film budget or marketing costs, The special Jury Prize, Best Director Award, Best Actress Award, and the Best Actor Award.


  
The Documentary Film competition at the KVIFF has its two parts: Documentaries Less than 30 minutes long, and Documentaries over 30 minutes long.

Other segments, which contain movies a European funded film budget and those of international movie budgets, of the Festival are:

Horizons -includes films already sold to a distributor for wider distribution or films already holding awards from other festivals aorund the world;

Another View - includes films with experimental or creative approaches in filmmaking
Forum of Independents - independents from all over the world have a showcase
East of the West - includes films from what used to be known as the socialist bloc.
Czech Films - are Czech films released throughout the yearRetrospectives - are retrospective looks into the works of renowned film personalities, a certain period in time, or a selection of films in accordance with another criteria

This year's festival is taking place July 1st through the 9th, 2011. For Information on attending the festival and getting your tickets, visit http://www.kviff.com/en/for-visitors/Information-about-tickets/ .

 For Information regarding accommodations nearby the festival, visit http://www.kviff.com/en/for-visitors/accommodations/

The Entry Deadline for films to participate is April 1st 2011.

For more information on Entering your film in the competition, go to http://www.kviff.com/en/about-festival/film-entry/2010

 Last Year's 45th Annual Karlovy Vary IFF Awards were as follows:

Grand Prix - Crystal Globe (30,000 USD) went to 'The Mosquito Net,' a spanish film directed by Agusti Villa

The Special Jury Prize (20,000 USD) went to 'Kooky,' a Czech republic and Denmark Film directed by Jan Sverak

Best Director Award went to Rajko Grlic for his film 'Just Between Us,' a film shot in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia

Best Actress Award went to Anaiis Demoustier for her role in 'Sweet Evil,' a French film directed by Olivier Coussemacq

Best Actor went to Mateusz Kosciukiewicz for his work in 'Mother Teresa of Cats,' a Polish film directed by Pawel Sala.Special Jury Mention went to two films, 1. 'Another Sky,' a Russian film directed by Dmitri Mamulia. 2. 'There Are Things You Don't Know,' an Iranian film directed by Fardin Saheb Zamani.
Best Documentary Over 30 Minutes Long (5,000 USD award available for film budgets) went to 'Familia,' a Swedish film documentary directed by Mikael Wistrom and Alberto Herskovits.

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