Winners of Best of <a href="www.filmfestawards.com.>Festival (Grand Prix) in the 2010 U.S. International Film & Video <a href="www.filmfestawards.com.>Festival have been chosen by a judging team from the International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers (IQ), Zurich, Switzerland. The overall <a href="www.filmfestawards.com.>festival drew entries from 25 countries in the production types of Corporate, Educational, Documentary and Entertainment.
Selected as Best of <a href="www.filmfestawards.com.>Festival-Corporate was “Stop the Nonsense,” a film by brainwaves KG, Munich, Germany. The entry was a cinema campaign for the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs and was created to bring to a broad public an increased awareness of salary differences between men and women. Munich company darkofilms produced the film.
Capturing Best of <a href="www.filmfestawards.com.>Festival-Educational was “Perspectives of Nationalism,” entered by The Image Works Alberta Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This interactive online learning resource was developed in cooperation with Oxford University Press and Alberta Education for grade 11 high school students.
Groups of students were consulted before the production began. The production crew traveled to nine countries to do interviews and capture daily living visuals to bring reality to the classroom. Students are led through a set of “missions” that encourage critical thinking and analysis of the countries they explore. The interactive resource is a complement to Oxford’s printed resource of the same name.
The winner of Best of <a href="www.filmfestawards.com.>Festival-Documentary was “Passionate Challenger, Alice Sara Ott: Born to Be a Pianist,” submitted by Mainichi Broadcasting System Inc., Osaka, Japan. This is the story of a lovely, talented young woman struggling to find her identity between her two cultural homelands of Germany and Japan. Her lifelong dream is realized when she performs with her hometown orchestra, the renowned Munich Philharmonic. The production credit was shared by Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc., and AMUSE INC., Tokyo.
Best of <a href="www.filmfestawards.com.>Festival-Entertainment was won by “Light of the River,” submitted by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.), Tokyo, Japan. The story is a moving tale of Tarta, the young black rat and his brother Chichi, who are searching for a safe place to live. It explores issues of untouched nature, family bonds and a warmth of heart lost to humans.
Shortlisted by the judging team in the Corporate category were “A Timeless Mystery,” Pieter-Rim de Kroon Film, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; “The Elements,” McCann AS, Oslo, Norway, and “Lloyds Banking Group—On the Inside,” Speakeasy Productions, Stanley, United Kingdom.
In the Educational category, “1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets,” The Edge Picture Company, London, and “Cadenza—A Late Train Named Love,” Radio Television, Hong Kong, made the shortlist.
The Documentary shortlist included “Nature: Kilauea Mountain of Fire,” THIRTEEN, New York City, and “Nine Days that Changed the World,” Citizens United, Washington, D.C. In the Entertainment category, “Cadenza—Memories Gilded” by Radio Television Hong Kong, was a challenger.
Clips from the winners and nominees and other winners in the <a href="www.filmfestawards.com.>festival can be viewed at www.filmfestawards.com. The U.S. International Film & Video <a href="www.filmfestawards.com.>Festival was founded in 1967.
