Visegrad award

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In order to raise the visibility of documentaries from the region, One World in cooperation with its partners in Poland (The Krakow Film Festival), Hungary (Hungarian Filmweek), and Slovakia (One World Bratislava) has initiated the establishment of the Visegrad Award. National juries established by each of the above mentioned festivals will choose one recently released documentary from their country (made since January 2004), and each winner will be awarded 1,000 EURO. Filmmakers will be obliged to use the money to translate and/or subtitle their films into English. The Visegrad Award is supported by the International Visegrad Fund.

The first Visegrad Award was given at the 44th Krakow Film Festival to the Polish filmmaker Piotr Szczepanski for the film Generacja SKOD by the National Jury: Leszek Wosiewicz, Ewa Borzecka, Piotr Dzieciot, Jan Kanty Pawluškiewicz, Jósef Robakowski.

Hlemýždí pevnost

At the 36th edition of the Hungarian Filmweek, which took place February 2-8, the next Visegrad Award was given to Hungarian filmmaker Dezso Zsigmond for the film Snail Fortress by the National Jury: Gulyás Gyula, Székely Orsolya and Sára Sándor.

Winners of the Czech and Slovak Visegrad Awards will be announced at the 7th edition of the One World Festival.
The winner from Slovakia was chosen by the Jury of Professors of VSMU in Bratislava: Maria Ferencuhova, Jelena Pašteková and Václav Macek.

The winner from the Czech Republic was chosen by the National Jury: Karel Och – (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Program Department), Jan Kastner – (Finále Plzen, Program Director) and Přemysl Martínek (Febiofest, Program Director).