XIV INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY - CAMERIMAGE
November 25th - December 3th 2006, Lodz

The 14th edition of International Festival Camerimage finished on 3th of December with a solemn Closing Ceremony in the Grand Theatre. It was a wonderful week of constructive discussions, artistic impressions and education. In the Camerimage participants and observers point of view this year’s Festival edition is one of the best Camerimage ever, which we, organizers, cannot deny. The success of this edition is based on financial support from our partners: Ministry of Culture, City of Lodz Authorities, The Marshal Office of Lodz Voivodeship, Polish Film Institute and with the support of Culture 2000 Programme. An efficient organization and varied Festival programme was guaranteed by the engagement of these institutions, for which we are very grateful.

We would like to also thank to our sponsors for their co-operation and help for the Festival:

GENERAL SPONSOR:
PLUS

OFFICIAL SPONSORS:
ARRI, KODAK, PANAVISION, NOKIA, TELEWIZJA POLSKA

BRANCH SPONSORS:
TECHNICOLOR, GRASS VALLEY, FILMGEAR, SONY, COLOR BY DELUXE, P+S TECHNIK, OPUS FILM STUDIO, CINEVATION, K5600, FINNLIGHT, LITEPANELS, KINO FLO, J.L.FISHER, SACHTLER, ZEISS, AVID, FLOATCAM PRO, APPLE, THE CHIMNEY POT, DIGITAL LAB, LABORATORIUM, LIGHTCRAFT, PACO CASES, TEATRUM, FRAMESTORE

SPONSORS:
PILSNER URQUELL, INDESIT, HEXELINE, PZU SA, POCZTA POLSKA, DALKIA, VOLVO, TOYA, ŁZE, NORDEA, TRIAS, MARTINI, KONSALNET, HOTEL CENTRUM, MEDIA MARKT, VELUX, DIVERSE, OLIMPIA, KASTOR, NOVALIGHT, TECHNOLIGHT, CARDCO, RESTAURACJA BRACI ZIELIŃSKICH, TRANSPORT GRZEGORZ OLEJNICZAK, NOVA, DOMAIN MENADA, VINEX, AMCOR RENTSCH

MEDIA PARTNERS:
TVP 2, DZIENNIK, RADIO ESKA, ESKA ROCK, KINO, EUROAWK, ZONE EUROPA, WP.PL, STOPKLATKA, CINEMA, FILM & TV KAMERAMANN, FILM & TV KAMERA, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, POLITYKA, SILVER SCREEN, REEL, KINO POLSKA, MTV, FLUID, ECHO MIASTA, THE WARSAW VOICE, CHARLIE CINEMA, A4

PARTNERS:
ALL PAY, U. S. EMBASSY IN WARSAW, DANISH EMBASSY IN WARSAW, SWEDISH EMBASSY IN WARSAW, GERMAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS (bvk), ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES

Special thanks to the management and workers of OPUS FILM STUDIO for their precious help with the organization of workshops for students and cinematographers (free usage of sound stage, technical background, set design, service) and to management of CHARLIE CINEMA and SILVER SCREEN for screenings of Camerimage theme reviews, as well as to board and students of Editing Department of National Film School in Lodz.

We would like to thank GERMAN (bvk), BRITISH (BSC), AMERICAN (ASC) and FRENCH (AFC) SOCIETES OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS as well as to DANISH and SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTES for their co-operation through the whole year. Our sincere gratitude to all DISTRIBUTORS, PRODUCERS, SOCIETES, FILM SCHOOLS, VOLUNTEERS and FRIENDS thanks to whom our Festival is a world-wide known and unique event.

WE THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!!!

GOLDEN FROG
Guillermo Navarro for Pan’s Labyrinth

SILVER FROG
Dick Pope for The Illusionist

BRONZE FROG
Ricardo Della Rosa for The House of Sand

GOLDEN TADPOLE
Paweł Dyllus for Wild Duck Season, Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Polska

SILVER TADPOLE
Imri Matalon for Road Marks, The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Israel

BRONZE TADPOLE
Kolja Raschke for Firn, Deutche Film und Fernsehakademie, Germany

THE DAVID SAMUELSON STUDENT AWARD - Special Award for Best Picture Technique in Student Film Competition, founded by PANAVISION
Paweł Dyllus for Best Cinematography in Wild Duck Season

POLISH FILMS COMPETITION
cinematographer Wojciech Staroń and directors Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze for Saviour Square

EUROPEAN DEBUTS COMPETITION
cinematographer Daniel Schönauer and director Byambasuren Davaa for The Cave of the Yellow Dog

NOKIA MOBILE MOVIE COMPETITION
Boris Dobrovolskiy (Russia) for Alone Together

NOKIA MOBILE MOVIE COMPETITION - Audience Award
Jędrzej Bączyk (Poland) for 5 Tunes of Nokia

SPECIAL AWARDS:

THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
ROBBY MÜLLER

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI AWARD
JULIA ORMOND

DUO AWARD: CINEMATOGRAPHER - DIRECTOR:
this year, the award granted for many years for the most outstanding partnerships between cinematographers and directors, was given to wonderful German creators of such films as Run, Lola, Run, The Princess and the Warrior, Heaven, and, most recently, Perfume: The Story of the Murderer, cinematographer FRANK GRIEBE and director TOM TYKWER.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO THE DIRECTOR WITH UNIQUE VISUAL SENSITIVITY:
award granted to the most outstanding English film director, author of such movies as Women in Love, Devils or Altered States - KEN RUSSELL.

SPECIAL AWARD TO THE DIRECTOR WITH UNIQUE VISUAL SENSITIVITY:
this year’s award was granted to the marvellous Hungarian director, creator of Sunshine, Meeting Venus, Mephisto or Colonel Redl among others - ISTVAN SZÁBÓ. In 2000 the same award was granted to WIM WENDERS who collected it during Camerimage 2006 Closing Ceremony.

SPECIAL AWARD TO THE POLISH CINEMATOGRAPHER FOR IMMENSE CONTRIBUTION TO THE ART OF FILM:
Camerimage Festival organizers awarded the most highly valued Polish cinematographer, ANDRZEJ BARTKOWIAK, who is a member of American Society of Cinematographers and works permanently in Hollywood. He was a long-time collaborator of director Sidney Lumet, and their The Verdict was an Oscar nominee. During this collaboration, Bartkowiak established his reputation both for urban compositions and indoor shoots. He is also the author of cinematography to such famous films as Terms of Endearment, Speed, The Devil’s Advocate and Thirteen Days.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO THE PRODUCTION DESIGNER WITH UNIQUE VISUAL SENSITIVITY:
during last edition of the Festival, there were many discussions concerning the participation of other filmmakers (beside the cinematographers) in a process of the film image creation. As it was pointed out, it is a production designer who contributes the most to the cinematographer’s success. CAMERIMAGE organizers plan to grant the most outstanding production designers with the special award starting from this year’s edition of the Festival. This year’s Laureate of the Award is DANTE FERRETTI. He is a production designer with such film credits as: La Citta Delle Donne, The Name of the Rose, The Age of Innocence, The Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Black Dahlia among others. Within the period of 40 years of his career he collaborated with such directors as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma. 

AWARD TO THE PRODUCTION DESIGNER WITH SPECIAL VISUAL SENSITIVITY:
second award to production designer will be granted to younger colleague of Dante Ferretti, JOHN MYHRE, who is an author of set design to Anna Karenina, Chicago and Memoirs of Geisha. He received Oscars for his work on the latter two films.

SPECIAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIELD OF MUSIC CLIPS AND VIDEOS AND ADVERTISING SPOTS:
the award to the outstanding author of cinematography to short forms of motion picture - DANIEL PEARL - who has gained recognition as director of photography to video clips of such music stars as Madonna, Guns N’ Roses, George Michael, Metallica, U2 and Michael Jackson, as well as to advertising spots and feature films.

SPECIAL AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS IN MOTION PICTURE:
the award was granted to DAVID SAMUELSON, who received Oscar twice - both for engineering and developing the Louma Camera Crane and remote system for motion picture production (those awards shared with Jean-Marie Lavalou and Alain Masseron). Samuelson was the person who conceived the hand-wheeled electronic remote control camera head that made practical all the demountable camera cranes and stand-alone camera mounts that now proliferate in all forms of film and television. The Louma pioneered a remotely-operated camera head combined with a lightweight and portable modular crane. Its design has proved to be the inspiration for numerous subsequent remote camera systems.

CAMERIMAGE SPECIAL AWARD TO THE ASSOCIATION OF POLISH FILMMAKERS
The Associaton of Polish Filmmakers exists since 1966. Such personalities have created the Association as Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Kawalerowicz (present Honourable Presidents), Janusz Majewski, Jan Kidawa Błoński, Jerzy Domaradzki and Jacek Bromski, the President. It counts over 1200 members in a dozen of sections and circles. The members of the Association are directors, producers, cinematographers, animators, screenwriters, film critics, stuntmen, make-up artists, sound editors, editors - people from all televisual professions who work in Polish cinematography and television. As one of the most active and large artist organisations, the association actively supports and protects films and their authors, and ensures appropriate conditions for the proper existence and development of the film industry. The role of the Association is to influence the national cinematography policy, and to actively participate in the creation and the amending of laws essential to cinematography. A separate activity of the Association is the participation in organising the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia, as well as the Koszalin Debut Film Festival. Since 2002, the Association of Polish Filmmakers has also been supporting the Cracow Film Festival concerning short and medium-length films. Moreover, the Association participates in numerous significant film-related events - it organises filmmakers meetings, it patronizes or co-finances retrospectives, festivals, and interesting and valuable cinematographic publications. The Association is also active on the world - wide arena. Camerimage Festival organizers would like to congratulate the Association on the 40th Anniversary and express the appreciation for its great achievements in the field of Polish Cinema.

CAMERIMAGE 2006 IN DETAILS

CAMERIMAGE 2006 was held in the Grand Theatre in Lodz for the seventh time. This year, Festival’s screenings were also organized in Charlie Cinema and Silver Screen.





There were 19 films produced in 2005 and 2006 in Competition. Chosen from among 300 film productions submitted from all over the world. The cinematographers fought for Golden Frog Award and the films were judged by international Jury consisted of:

Michael Chapman - cinematographer (Taxi Driver, The Fugitive, Raging Bull)
Ryszard Lenczewski - cinematographer (U Pana Boga za piecem, Last Resort, My Summer of Love)
Peter Levy - cinematographer (Broken Arrow, Lost in Space, Blown Away)
Bruno Delbonnel - cinematographer (Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Infamous)
Phil Meheux - cinematographer (Casino Royale, The Legend of Zorro, Entrapment).

Most of the films presented within the Competition were Polish or European premieres. The Competition consisted of:

BABEL
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Country: USA

BLACK DAHLIA, THE
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Director: Brian De Palma
Country: Germany, USA

BOBBY
Cinematographer: Michael Barrett
Director: Emilio Estevez
Country: USA

COPYING BEETHOVEN
Cinematographer: Ashley Rowe
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Country: USA

DAYS OF GLORY
Cinematographer: Patrick Blossier
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Country: France, Morocco, Algeria, Belgium

DEPARTED, THE
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
Director: Martin Scorsese
Country: USA

EVEN MONEY
Cinematographer: Robbie Greenberg
Director: Mark Rydell
Country: USA

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
Cinematographer: Tom Stern
Director: Clint Eastwood
Country: USA

FLANDERS
Cinematographer: Yves Cape
Director: Bruno Dumont
Country: France

FOUNTAIN, THE
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Country: USA

FOUR MINUTES
Cinematographer: Judith Kaufmann
Director: Chris Kraus
Country: Germany

FRANZ + POLINA
Cinematographer: Maxim Popov
Director: Mikhail Segal
Country: Russia

HEAVEN’S DOORS
Cinematographer: Paulo Ares
Director: Imad Noury, Swen Noury
Country: Morocco

HOUSE OF SAND, THE
Cinematographer: Ricardo Della Rosa
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Country: Brasil

ILLUSIONIST, THE
Cinematographer: Dick Pope
Director: Neil Burger
Country: Czech Republic, USA

JASMINUM
Cinematographer: Krzysztof Ptak
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Country: Poland

PALIMPSEST
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Director: Konrad Niewolski
Country: Poland

PAN’S LABYRINTH
Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Country: Mexico, Spain, USA

QUEEN, THE
Cinematographer: Affonso Beato
Director: Stephen Frears
Country: Great Britain, France, Italy

Retrospective of Sven Nykvist and Ingmar Bergman:
presentation of eight from among twenty - three films made by world - greatest duo. Their adventure began in 1960s, when Nykvist exchanged his elder collegue, Gunnar Fischer, Bergman first collaborator. The review of their greatest achievements was organized in the memory of Sven Nykvist, the Festival’s mentor, whose idea of creation constituted CAMERIMAGE spiritus movens. It was 1993 when Sven Nykvist agreed to be the honorary guest of the first CAMERIMAGE Festival. He was the very first laureate of the “Golden Frog" Award for Lifetime Achievement, because his artistic attitude was an inspiration for the Festival’s idea. Called a genius of light and virtuoso of colour, Sven Nykvist gained two Oscars: for Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander. He got another two nominations to Oscar for The Unbearable Lightness of Being and for the film he directed himself - The Ox. In the memory of the cinematographer of all times we presented:
WINTER LIGHT (1962), THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961), AUTUMN SONATA (1978), THE SILENCE (1963), PERSONA (1966), SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (1973), CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972), THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960)

Competition of etudes made by film school students from all over the world, selected from over 200 submitted. Etudes of high visual values not chosen to the Competition, were screened within Student Films Panorama. Similarly to Feature Films Competition, the etudes were evalueted by international Jury consisting of:

Rolf Coulanges (critic, cinematographer of documentaries: Widerstand in Guadeloupe, Das Prinzip Dora, Chercher la vie)
Bruce Finn (cinematographer: 8 Simple Rules, Naturally Native, Word of Mouth)
Ken Fisher (Litepanels - Founding Partner)
Seamus McGarvey (cinematographer: High Fidelity, The Hours, World Trade Center)
Peter Strietmann (cinematographer, editor: Cremaster Cycle, Skinned Deep, Drawing Restraint 9)
Jerzy Zieliński (cinematographer: The Third Miracle, Washington Square, The Secret Garden)

Students competed to Golden Tadpole. The screenings of etudes traditionally took place on Wednesday, so called ‘Students Wednesday’ (on 29th of November). Films shown in Student Section:

COMPETITION:

ACCORDING TO PLAN, Poland
ANGEL, Belgia
BAD HABITS, Australia
BASS IN CONTRA, Germany
BEYOND THE SILENCE, Poland
THE BLUE MONKEY, Germany
BROADCAST REHEARSAL, Polsand
COSETTE, Australia
DARK NIGHT, Israel
A DROP OF WATER, France
FIRN, Germany
THE HABITANTS, Belgium
THE LAST FRAME, Poland
PIECE OF HEAVEN, Poland
ROAD MARKS, Israel
THE SEA, Australia
ST. PAULI FOREVER, Germany
WILD DUCK SEASON, Poland
WORLD CHAMPION, Poland

PANORAMA:

BREACHED, USA
CARMINE, Argentina
CHIMERA, Mexico
CHINESE TAKE AWAY, Germany
DAILY BREAD, Poland
THE DATE, Germany
DAWN, Poland
END OF TOWN, Australia
HEARTCUT, Norway
HOME, Germany
I DON’T WANT THE NIGHT, Spain
LENA, Poland
LINE, Russia
A MAN WITHOUT A FACE, Poland
MONSTRANCE, Slovakia
PAPERBOAT, USA
SHOUT, USA
SKY OVER MAZURY, Poland
SOMNIO, Norway
THEIR STORY, India
TOGETHER, Poland
TO MAGDALENKA, Poland

European Debutes Competition:
this year, the competition for the European debutants took place for the first time. Eight movies of high visual values were chosen to take part in the Competition, but also they had to be first or second feature of the director. The films were judged by the international Jury in respect of collaboration between director and cinematographer. Lech Majewski will be the head of the Jury. He is a film and theatre director, screenwriter, poet, novelist, painter, composer, Directors Guild of America and The European Film Academy. Born in 1953 in Katowice. He studied at Academy of Fine Arts and graduated from the National Film School in Lodz, Film Directing Department. His film credits include works that he is the director and the screenwriter of: Prisoner of Rio, Ewangelia wedlug Harry’ego, Wojaczek (for which he was granted with over 20 awards), Angelus, The Garden of Earthly Delights. He is also an author of a screenplay to famous Basquiat, starring with Benicio del Torro, Gary Oldman and David Bowie. Majewski is also a famous video artist as well as operas’ and dramas’ creator. The Jury consisted of:

Lech Majewski - Jury President
Igor Klebanow (cinematographer: Driver for Vera, Let’s Make Love, Metamorphosis)
Piotr Kukla (cinematographer: Twin Sisters, The Zookeeper)
Kramer Mogrenthau (cinematographer: Godsend, Havoc, Cuban Blood)
Guillermo Navarro (cinematographer: Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Jackie Brown)
Jost Vacano (cinematographer: Das Boot, Showgirls, Robocop)

Films presented within the Competition:

CAVE OF THE YELLOW DOG, THE
Cinematographer: Daniel Schönauer
Director: Byambasuren Davaa
Country: Mongolia, Germany

CHAOS
Cinematographer: Marian Prokop
Director: Xawery Żuławski 
Country: Poland

FRANZ + POLINA
Cinematographer: Maxim Popov
Director: Mikhail Segal
Country: Russia

HOMESICK
Cinematographer: Harri Räty
Director: Petri Kotwica
Country: Finland

KISSED BY WINTER
Cinematographer: Odd Reinhardt Nicolaysen
Director: Sara Johnsen
Country: Norway

SOMEONE ELSE’S HAPPINESS
Cinematographer: Frank van den Eeden
Director: Fien Troch
Country: Belgium, Netherlands

WHOLETRAIN
Cinematographer: Christian Rein
Director: Florian Gaag
Country: Germany, Poland

RETRIEVAL
Cinematographer: Bogumił Godfrejow
Director: Sławomir Fabicki
Country: Poland

Except for the Debuts Competition, latest achievements of European film industry were presented within European Cinema Review.

European Cinema Review:

EMMA’S BLISS
Cinematographer: Daniela Knapp
Director: Emma Glück
Country: Germany

FOUR WINDOWS
Cinematographer: Jürgen Jürges
Director: Christian Moris Müller
Country: Germany

FRAULEIN
Cinematographer: Igor Martinović
Director: Andrea Štaka
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina

FREE WILL, THE
Cinematographers: Matthias Glasner, Ingo Scheel
Director: Matthias Glasner
Country: Germany

GHETTO
Cinematographer: Andreas Höfer
Director: Audrius Juzénas
Country: Germany, Lithuania

HAPPY AS ONE
Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmann
Director: Vanessa Jopp
Country: Germany

IMPOSSIBLY YOURS
Cinematographer: Theo Bierkens
Director: Torsten C. Fischer
Country: Germany

MOTHER OF MINE
Cinematographer: Jarkko T. Laine
Director: Klaus Härö
Country: Finland, Sweden

REQUIEM
Cinematographer: Bogumil Godfrejow
Director: Hans - Christian Schmid
Country: Germany

SALVADOR
Cinematographer: David Omedes
Director: Manuel Huerga
Country: Spain

THICKER THAN WATER
Cinematographer: Tuomo Hutri
Director: Árni Ásgeirsson
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Germany

Polish Cinema Competition under the patronage of PLUS, Camerimage General Sponsor:
latest Polish films were critically observed and evalueted by the international Board of Professionals - world famous cinematographers, directors and film critics - chaired by Mark Rydell, American director, actor and producer. In 1982 Rydell gained Oscar nomination for the film he directed On Golden Pond with Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda. He directed also The River with Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek, and Intersection with Richard Gere and Sharon Stone. As an actor he appeared in Robert Altman, Sydney Pollack and Woody Allen films. In 2005 he produced Lasse Hallström (director) and Oliver Stapleton (cinematographer) film, An Unfinished Life. This year he directed Even Money, which author of the photography, Robbie Greenberg (Save the Last Dance, Free Willy, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge) was also present at CAMERIMAGE and joined Mark Rydell in the Board. Even Money had a World Premiere during Camerimage this year. Jury of the Competition consisted:

Mark Rydell - Jury President
Robbie Greenberg (cinematographer: Even Money, Free Willy, Introducing Dorothy Dandringe)
Manuel Alberto Claro (cinematographer: Reconstruction, Dark Horse, Allegro)
Louis - Philippe Capelle (cinematographer: Black Night, Osveta, Achterland)
Dick Pope (cinematographer: Vera Drake, Illusionist, Secrets and Lies)

Films presented within the Competition:

CHAOS
Cinematographer: Marian Prokop
Director: Xawery Żuławski

IMMENSITY OF JUSTICE
Cinematographer: Mariusz Palej
Director: Wiesław Saniewski

JASMINUM
Cinematographer: Krzysztof Ptak
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski

PALIMPSEST
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Director: Konrad Niewolski

RETRIEVAL
Cinematographer: Bogumił Godfrejow
Director: Sławomir Fabicki

SAVIOUR SQUARE
Cinematographer: Wojciech Staroń
Directors: Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze

WHAT SUN HAS SEEN
Cinematographers: Andrzej Szulkowski, Bartłomiej Kaczmarek
Director: Michał Rosa

Nokia Mobile Movie Competition
CAMERIMAGE Festival organizers along with NOKIA company organized an outstanding student-oriented competition ‘NOKIA MOBILE MOVIE COMPETITION’ as a part of this year’s CAMERIMAGE. The idea of NMMC competition was to invite 10 young talented artists to produce short films using multi-media computers N93. Produced films were evaluated both by Jury and the CAMERIMAGE audience. Aims of the competition were: to promote young artists, to spread an idea of shooting films using multi - media computers N93 and to build awareness of multi - media functions of Nseries mobile phones. The Festival’s organizers observe the development of multi-media mobile telephony with attention and are strongly convinced of its crucial role for film development in the future. Jury President of the Competition was Polish cinematographer Jerzy Zieliński, and Peter Strietmann (cinematographer) and Jerzy Zelnik (actor) were its members.

Retrospective of the Lifetime Achievement Award Laureate:
this year the Award was granted to Robby Müller - long - time collaborator of Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. There were couple of films shot by Robby Muller presented during our Festival as a Laureate’s Review.

ALICE IN THE CITIES
Director: Wim Wenders
Country: Germany
Year: 1974

AMERICAN FRIEND
Director: Wim Wenders
Country: Germany, France
Year: 1977

BREAKING THE WAVES
Director: Lars von Trier
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norwey, Iceland
Year: 1966

DANCER IN THE DARK
Director: Lars von Trier
Country: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway
Year: 2000

DOWN BY LAW
Director: Jim Jarmush
Country: USA, Germany
Year: 1986

GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
Director: Jim Jarmush
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Country: 1999

Swedish Cinema Review:
screenings of the most interesting Swedish movies made in last few years as well as greatest classics such as Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal, both directed by Ingmar Bergman and shot by Gunnar Fischer. Films produced in these countries have won acclaim in the whole world, and that is why the organizers of Camerimage have decided to remind to the audience some of them.

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
Cinematographer: Harrald Gunnar Paalgard
Director: Kay Pollak
Year: 2004

CONTAINER
Cinematographers: Jasper Kurlandsky, Lukas Moodysson
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Year: 2005

DALECARLIANS
Cinematographer: Peter Mokrosinski
Director: Maria Blom
Year: 2004

DAYBREAK
Cinematographer: Ulf Brantås
Director: Björn Runge
Year: 2003

EVIL
Cinematographer: Peter Mokrosinski
Director: Mikael Håfström
Year: 2003

FOUR SHADES OF BROWN
Cinematographer: Leif Benjour
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Year: 2004

LILYA 4-EVER
Cinematographers: Ulf Brantås
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Year: 2002

MOUTH TO MOUTH
Cinematographer: Anders Bohman
Director: Björn Runge
Year: 2005

NINA’S JOURNEY
Cinematographer: Dan Myhrman
Director: Lena Einhorn
Year: 2004

SEVENTH SEAL, THE
Cinematographer: Gunnar Fisher
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Year: 1956

WILD STRAWBERRIES
Cinematographer: Gunnar Fisher
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Year: 1957

ZOZO
Cinematographer: Aril Wretblad
Director: Josef Fares
Year: 2005

Danish Cinema Review:
eleven films of Danish production, made in the last few years, were screened as a review to fullfil the image of contemporary Scandinavian film industry. Festival CAMERIMAGE has already presented film achivements of Norwegian and Finnish cinema as well as Swedish cinema as mentioned above. Within Danish review we presented:

ADAM’S APPLES
Cinematographer: Sebastian Blenkov
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Year: 2005

DARK HORSE
Cinematographer: Manuel Alberto Claro
Director: Dagur Kári
Year: 2005

DOGVILLE
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
Director: Lars von Trier
Year: 2003

FACING THE TRUTH
Cinematographer: Jan Weincke
Director: Nils Malmros
Year: 2002

I AM DINA
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
Director: Ole Bornedal
Year: 2002

IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Year: 2003

KING IS ALIVE, THE
Cinematographer: Jens Schlosser
Director: Kristian Levring
Year: 2001

OPEN HEARTS
Cinematographer: Morten Søborg
Director: Susanne Bier
Year: 2002

RECONSTRUCTION
Cinematographer: Manuel Alberto Claro
Director: Christoffer Boe
Year: 2003

STRINGS
Cinematographers: Kim Hattesen, Jan Wiencke
Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
Year: 2005

YOUNG ANDERSEN
Cinematographer: Nicolaj Brüel
Director: Rumle Hammerich
Year: 2005

Films of Camerimage laureates and special guests as well as movies of high visual values, which were not chosen to the Feature Films Competition, were presented within this section.

ALL THE KING’S MEN
Cinematographer: Paweł Edelman
Director: Steven Zaillian
Country: USA, Germany

CATCH A FIRE
Cinematographer: Ron Fortunato
Director: Phillip Noyce
Country: Great Britain, South Africa, USA

CINEMATOGRAPHER STYLE
Cinematographers: Jon Fauer, Brian Heller, Jeff Laszlo, David Morgan
Director: Jon Fauer
Country: USA

DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME
Cinematographers: Mirco Maassen, Henry Grasse, Martin Top, Jennifer Günther
Director: Matthias Maaβ
Country: Germany

EMILY CRIES
Cinematographer: Paweł Dyllus
Director: Rafał Kapeliński
Country: Poland

FADE TO BLACK
Cinematographer: John de Borman
Director: Oliver Parker
Country: Great Britain

INLAND EMPIRE
Cinematographers: David Lynch, Odd-Geir Saether
Director: David Lynch
Country: USA, Poland, France

KING, THE
Cinematographer: Eigil Brydl
Director: James Marsh
Country: USA, Great Britain

KOKODA
Cinematographer: Jules O’Loughlin
Director: Alister Grierson
Country: Australia

LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, THE
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Country: UK

PETER AND THE WOLF
Cinematographers: Hugh Gordon, Mikołaj Jaroszewicz
Director: Suzie Templeton
Country: Poland, Great Britain

PRESTIGE, THE
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
Director: Christopher Nolan
Country: USA, UK

THR3E
Cinematographer: Sebastian Miłaszewski
Director: Robby Henson
Country: Poland, USA

TIDELAND
Cinematographer: Nicola Pecorini
Director: Terry Gilliam
Country: Canada, UK

TRELEMORELE
Cinematographer: Wojciech Todorow
Director: Piotr Łazarkiewicz
Country: Poland

VIOLIN, THE
Cinematographer: Martín Boege
Director: Francisco Vargas
Country: Mexico

WE FIGHT TO BE FREE
Cinematographer: Kees Van Oostrum
Director: Kees Van Oostrum
Country: USA

WHO NEEDS SLEEP?
Cinematographers: Haskell Wexler, Alan Barker, Joan Churchill, Tamara Goldsworthy, Kevin McKiernan, Rita Taggart
Director: Haskell Wexler
Country: USA

Camerimage Festival creates an opportunity of gaining a practical knowledge within the seminars and workshops led by acclaimed cinematographers, directors, editors and other film industry representatives. It is a unique occasion for film and art school students from all over the world to learn about the professionals’ craft and to exchange experiences with them. Seminars and meetings: This year, Camerimage participants had a chance to meet such great filmmakers at seminars and meetings as: Robby Müller, David Samuelson, Nancy Schreiber, Dante Ferretti, Lilly Kilvert, Seamus McGarvey, Daniel Pearl, John Myhre, Istvan Szabo, Frank Griebe, Tom Tykwer, Chris Doyle, Michael Seresin.

Workshops - OPUS Film Studio

ARRI workshops

• Arri Lighting Workshop. Lighting with Paint (and Lights) - Jon Fauer
• Arri Workshop. The Super 16 Rennaisance. Marc Shipman - Mueller, Christoph Chassee, Jon Fauer
• Arri 35 mm Camera Workshop. Handheld Camera in feature filmmaking - theoretical and practical aspects of handheld camerawork - Andreas Höfer, Joerg Guenter
• Arri D - 20 Workshop - Bill Lovell, Gavin Finney
  
• Arri D - 20 Workshop - Chris Doyle

PANAVISION workshops

• Panavision Genesis. HD Camera Workshop - Staurt Harris
  
• Panavision 35 mm Camera Workshop - John Mathieson

Acting - cinematography workshop
Mike Figgis - famous director, writer and composer, Oscar laureate for the script to Leaving Las Vegas, shared with his experience with film school students from all over the world during over two hours. The aim of the workshop was to explore the new cinema of digital technology and its influence on the new relationship between actor and camera.

Editing workshops - Festival Centre
A three - day workshops “Camerimage Editing Events" were organized together with AVID and Polish Editors Association. The idea to organize creative film workshops and seminars concerning film editing resulted from the need to make Camerimage a source of positive changes relating to the esthetic and emotion of moving image. This year, students had a chance to discover the mysteries of editors work, especially with Jim Clark (Mission, The Killing Fields, Vera Drake, The Marathon Man) - Oscar laureate for editing The Killing Fields, and Tom Rolf (Taxi Driver, Report of the Pelican, The Heat), also Oscar - winner for his work on The Right Stuff by Philip Kaufman. Both editors conducted thematic seminars and took part, along with Polish Editors Association representatives, in the panel discussion entitled The Editor in the Structure of Film Production. It was the first official meeting of professionals of different fields of film production in Poland. Programme of workshops consisted of:

• Do You Believe in What You See? Film and Manipulation - Maciej Pawliński, Rafał Listopad
• In Search of Emotion. Editing Saviour Square - Krzysztof Szpetmański
  
• Decisions, Decisions. 50 years of Film Editing - Tom Rolf
  
• The Editor in the Structure of Film Production - panel discussion
  
• Jim Clark: A Life in the Editing Room - Jim Clark

Presentations in the Grand Theatre (Seminar Room and Screening Room):

• FLOATCAM PRO - Janusz Dybowski
  
• LITEPANELS - Ken Fisher
  
• FINNLIGHTS - Bruce Finn
  
• ARRI/ZEISS. Lenses in Action - Holger Sehr, Marc Shipman-Mueller
  
• DIGITAL RECORDING TECHNIQUES IN STOP FRAME ANIMATION - seminar based on the film PETER AND THE WOLF - Hugh Gordon, Mikołaj Jaroszewicz, Suzie Templeton, Kamil Polak
  
• P + S TECHNIK, Weisscam HS-1 - Stefan Weiss
  
• P + S TECHNIK, Skater Scope & Skater Mini Product Family - Anna Piffl
  
• GRASS VALLEY and TECHNICOLOR Viper workflow and Digital Intermediates, New Technologies - Dana Ross, Jill Bogdanowicz, Tony Pierce Roberts, Simon Wilkinson
  
• KODAK - Thierry Perronnet, Leon Silverman
  
• THE CHIMNEY POT - Jędrzej Sabliński, Łukasz Ceranka

The ‘Decisive moment’ Revisited. Fine art photography exhibition of the most outstanding directors of photography: this year’s CAMERIMAGE was accompanied by the photography exhibition organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in association with the American Society of Cinematographers. It was a unique occasion to visit the presentation of 70 artworks made by Oscars’ laureates and nominees - members of ASC. For the first time the exhibition had been on display in the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery during Oscar Awards Ceremony 2005. The exhibition was held under the patronage of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Society of Cinematographers and U.S. Embassy in Warsaw.

Jerzy Skolimowski exhibition
Camerimage 2006, Municipal Art Gallery in Tarnów, Allmendinger, Tower Building, Art & Design Society - exhibition of Polish film director, screenwriter and painter was an important accompanying event of the Festival. The Curator of the exhibition was Bogusław Wojtowicz.

MEDIA DESK - seminar: MEDIA PLUS - programme summary. New perspectives - MEDIA 2007:
At Camerimage 2006, MEDIA DESK POLAND summarized its activity over last few years concerning the programme Media Plus run in Poland. A very interesting element of the seminar was an introduction to new perspectives and opportunities concerned with Media 2007 - a new programme of MEDIA DESK.

CAMERIMAGE MARKET:
The exhibition and presentation of the film equipment, organised every year at the Festival Center in Grand Theatre in Lodz, for the first time was available also for unaccredited guests who were be able to buy special tickets for the venue. Exhibition stands as well as live presentations of modern film equipment and latest technologies (traditional and digital) used within the film industry and produced by the best international branch companies such as ARRI, PANAVISION, P+S TECHNIK, FILMGEAR, SACHTLER, LITEPANELS, K5600, FINNLIGHTS, FLOATCAM PRO, MBS, J.L.FISHER, SONY, DIGITAL LAB, PACO CASES, TEATRUM, KINO, KAMERAMANN, INDESIT, were opened for all our guests. A stand of POLISH FILM INSTITUTE was also available. It was a unique chance to learn about latest achievements of the film industry as it is the only such an exhibition in Poland.

One of the aims of the Festival is to create a venue where disputes, concerning all the present problems of film industry and film production development, are able to take place. Following the last year, successful, edition, this year, the participants were informed among others about the profits resulting from the declaration submitted last year concerning the job regulations in the film industry signed by more than twenty famous cinematographers. The panel was divided into two parts, the first concerning the legal issues relating to the ownership and recognizing the cinematographer as co-authors, the second discussing the job regulations in the film industry. Subjects of the forum:

• Legal situation of the author of cinematography in Polish law (legal and artistic arguments for cinematographers recognition as an co-author of the audiovisual work)
  
• Legal situation of the author of cinematography in different national laws and European regulations
  
• Cinematographers working conditions and strategies of protection.
  
• Film work integrity and its disruption with advertising breaks by commercial TV stations
  
• Refusal to present sponsors of cultural events in public Polish TV broadcasts
  

Lecturers of the forum were: Jost Vacano (bvk), Nigel Walters (BSC), Kees Van Oostrum (ASC), Michael Neubauer (bvk), Eva Ribera (Spanish attorney), Christlieb Klages (German attorney), Lucyna Sas-Swadźba (Polish attorney) and Wojciech Dziomdziora (member of the National Broadcasting Council).

CAMERIMAGE Music Scene:
Music concerts of the young Polish scene were organized every late evening in the Festival’s Club Greenski in the Centrum Hotel. The author of CAMERIMAGE musical setting was Zbigniew Hołdys, Polish famous rockman. Such artists presented themselves during Camerimage: IRA, L.STADT, POWER OF TRINITY, NICK NEYM, W2P BEATBOX SEBASTIAN I PRZYJACIELE, ŻYWIOŁAK, NORMALSI, DUBSKA, JA - KAŚ.

EPILOGUE

The 14th edition of International Festival of Cinematography - Camerimage finished on December 3rd, and was closed with a solemn Ceremony, during which the awards were given to all competition prize-winners as well as the laureates of Special Awards. Two short films realized during the period of the Festival, one of Warsaw Film School students, and second made by Mike Figgis, added a great splendour to the Ceremony. The 14th edition of the Festival had an outstanding atmosphere and climate, which aroused an interest of best cinematographers from all over the world and other filmmakers: directors, actors, editors and producers. There were 148 films presented in 224 projections. The repertory consisted 93 feature films and 55 short films. Over 3,000 people accredited for the Festival. 360 cinematographers from 36 countries, 1,200 students from 36 countries, also directors, editors, producers, distributors, actors, screenwriters and almost 200 international media representatives were our guests.

WE INVITE YOU ALL TO CAMERIMAGE 2007

NOVEMBER 24 - DECEMBER 1, LODZ !!!