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

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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 Memo