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On the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Amnesty International and Foundation DOEN introduce a new film prize for films dealing with human rights issues. Ten films from each festival are nominated for the Amnesty International – DOEN Awards. The purpose of the introduction of the Amnesty International – DOEN Awards is to put these films in the spotlight, to expose them to a larger audience and to stimulate committed filmmakers. At the IDFA as well as on the IFFR, forum discussions will take place with reference to these Awards involving filmmakers, jury members, journalists, human right activists and the audience. An international jury consisting of filmmakers and human rights activists, will select the winners of the Amnesty International - DOEN Awards. This Award consist of a scholarship of € 5000 and a small release of the film in the Netherlands.
The Amnesty International - DOEN Award for the IFFR 2002 was awarded to Zendan-e zanan / Women's Prison (Manijeh Hekmat, Iran, 2002)
The other nominees were:
10 / Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 2002)
Les Chemins de l'Oued / Under Another Sky (Gaël Morel, France/Algeria, 2002)
Cidade de Deus / City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Brazil, 2002)
The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan, UK/Ireland, 2002)
Nizhalkkuthu / Shadow Kill (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India/France/Netherlands/Switserland, 2002)
Occident (Cristian Mungiu, Romania, 2002)
Onibus 174 / Bus 174 (José Padilha, Brazil, 2002)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, Australia, 2002)
Yadon ilaheyya / Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, France/Germany/Morocco/Palestina, 2002)
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Nathalie Alonso Casale
The French-Spanish-Dutch director Nathalie Alonso Casale was born in Paris. She won a Golden Calf for her graduation film Memorias sin batallas from the Dutch Film Academy. Her short films, that have also been screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival, have won several international prizes. Her feature début Memory of the Unknown was selected for the VPRO Tiger Awards competition. At this moment, Alonso Casale is working on her second feature. She is also actress, editor and producer. |
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Marco Bechis
The Italian director was born in Chile and grew up in Brazil and Argentina. During the military dictatorship in Argentina, he started his film career as a refugee in Milan at the Albedo Film School. His first feature was Alambrado (1991). Then he went on to direct the prize-winning Garage Olimpo (1999) about torture in Argentina under the military regime. His latest film Figli-Hijos (2001) is about disappearances in Argentina. |
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Mike Downey
Currently Film and Music Entertainment Ltd's managing director, Mike Downey was the co-founder and publisher of international film trade Moving Pictures, MPTV (Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive) and the European Film Review. He wrote The Film Finance Handbook: A Practical Guide for European Film Producers. Downey is president of the Council of Advisors of the Motovun Film Festival and teaches at the Imaginary Film Academy, both in Croatia.
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Ulrike Ottinger
She began a successful career as a painter in Paris and then returned to Germany, where she directed her first film in 1971. Over the past 20 years, Ulrike Ottinger has directed 15 films, including features and experimental documentaries often made from a feminist or ethnographic perspective. Central to her work is a theatrical meditation on identity and difference, particularly in terms of gender and sexual orientation.
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Jan Pronk
Jan Pronk has been Minister of Development Co-operation several times in Holland and Minister of the Environment between 1998 and 2002. For six years, he was adjunct Secretary-General of the UNCTAD. Pronk is special UN envoy for durable development and adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In addition, he is professor in the theory and practice of international development at the I.S.S. (Institute of Social Studies) in The Hague.
The Amnesty International - DOEN Award for the IDFA 2002 was awarded to two films:
The Day I will Never Forget (Kim Longinotto)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Eugene Jarecki). The other nominees were:
Baghdad On/Off
Against my Will
The Reporting from the Rabbit Hutch
Pinochet's Children
Clown in'Kabul
Echelon, the Secret Power
In the Line of Fire
Maîtres et Esclaves
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Niek Koppen
Dutch documentary filmmaker. At age 17, he discovered his fascination for documentaries. Niek Koppen graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 1981. He is motivated by issues that are of a direct personal fascination to him, as in The Battle of the Java sea (1995), a highly acclaimed film on a naval battle in 1942 where his mother’s first husband was killed. His films, which also include Siki (1992), The Hunt (1997) and Working for labour (1998) have been honoured with various awards, including the Golden Calf Dutch Film Award and the Prix Italia. Since 1999 he is also a producer of documentary films. With his company Selfmade Films he won the Prix Europe for The Making of the revolution, an inside documentary about Otpor!, the Serbian student movement that started the uprising against the regime of Slobodan Miloševic. |
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Amir Labaki
Brazilian writer and film critic (Folha de S. Paolo and Valor Econômico). Founder and director of It’s All True – International Documentary Film Festival and former director of the Museum of Image and Sound (São Paulo). He is the author and editor of nine books on cinema and history, including The Films from Brazil, 2001 – A Space Odyssey and Person on Person. |
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Andrei Plakhov Russian film critic, reviewer and author. He graduated in both mathematics and film, and wrote a Ph.D. thesis on films by Visconti. He was head of the Arbitration Commission during the Glasnost era and lifted the ban on more than 300 films that were formerly prohibited in the Soviet Union. He has published over thirty books, in Russia as well as in other countries. He headed the Moscow International Film Festival and is now in charge of film selection for the Sochi International Film Festival. He has been a jury member of film festivals in Tokyo, Berlin and other places. |
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Diane Weyermann US film expert, human rights worker and producer. She is the director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, which promotes independent artistic voices and creates partnerships. Previously, she developed and directed the Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute in New York. This fund supports documentaries on issues including human rights, social justice and freedom of expression. She was much involved with emerging filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. She herself produced and directed independent documentaries.
The British actrice Vanessa Redgrave has had to cancel her participation in the jury of the Amnesty International – DOEN Award. Her involvement with the Chechnyan vice-president Akhmed Zakaev, who was arrested after the hostage crisis in Moscow, compelled her to take this decision.
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