Copenhagen International Documentary Festival

CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Festival)
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Founded	2003
Number of films	150
Language	International
Official website

CPH:DOX is the official name for the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, an international documentary film festival established in 2003 and held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. CPH:DOX has grown steadily ever since the beginning and is currently the biggest documentary film festival in Northern Europe.^[1]

It was founded as an offspring of NatFilm Festival, a feature film festival held in Copenhagen since 1990. CPH:DOX is today the largest and most prestigious documentary festival in Scandinavia. Its emphasis is on showcasing best documentary achievements, as well as promoting innovative approach to documentary filmmaking which merges various forms of media art with traditional forms of the genre. In addition to film screenings, the festival often organizes workshops, seminars and panel discussions designed to bring together artists and filmmakers and facilitate new projects.

The festival was most recently held in November 2010. Over 180 films were shown and around 45,000 people attended the screenings.^[2]

In 2011 CPH:DOX runs from 3–13 November.

Awards

The festival currently awards prizes in eight competition programs:

• The CPH:DOX Award for best documentary films that are "both socially committed and visually ambitious"
• The AMNESTY Award awarded in cooperation with Amnesty International Denmark, for best film that focuses on human rights
• The NEW VISION Award for best experimental or innovative documentary film, introduced in 2004
• The SOUND & VISION Award for best music documentary film, introduced in 2006
• The DANISH:DOX Award for best Danish documentary film, introduced in 2008
• The SHORT:DOX Award for best music short film, introduced in 2006. All of the ten nominated short films were screened online during the festival.
• The Politikens Audience Award for the film the audience likes the most. Chosen between DANISH:DOX movies
• The Doc Alliance Award is five films of high quality, which stand out through originality and innovativeness. The five films are participating in five european film festivals.

Award winners

(Award winners highlighted in light yellow.)

2003 CPH:DOX

Award	Film	Director
CPH:DOX Award	The Damned and the Sacred (Dans, Grozny dans)	Jos de Putter
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention	Screaming Men (Huutajat - Screaming Men)	Mika Ronkainen
Amnesty Award	Bus 174 (Ônibus 174)	José Padilha
Amnesty Award Special Mention	Cuban Rafters (Balseros)	Carlos Bosch & Josep Maria Domènech

2004 CPH:DOX

Award	Film	Director
CPH:DOX Award	Darwin's Nightmare The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Melancholian 3 huonetta)	Hubert Sauper Pirjo Honkasalo
Amnesty Award	Justice (Justiça)	Maria Ramos
Amnesty Award Special Mention	Disbelief (Nedoverie)	Andrei Nekrasov
New Vision Award	I Love You All (Aus Liebe zum Volk)	Audrey Maurion & Eyal Sivan
New Vision Award Special Mention	Max by Chance (Rejsen på ophavet) Gunnar Goes Comfortable	Max Kestner Gunnar Hall Jensen

2005 CPH:DOX

Award	Film	Director
CPH:DOX Award	Workingman's Death The White Diamond	Michael Glawogger Werner Herzog
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention	Odessa... Odessa!	Michale Boganim
Amnesty Award	Viva Zapatero!	Sabina Guzzanti
Amnesty Award Special Mention	Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire	Peter Raymont
New Vision Award	Trains of Winnipeg: 14 Film Poems	Clive Holden
New Vision Award Special Mention	Cultural Quarter	Mike Stubbs

2006 CPH:DOX

Award	Film	Director
CPH:DOX Award	Black Sun	Gary Tarn
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention	The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun	Pernille Rose Grønkjær
Amnesty Award	The Prize of the Pole	Staffan Julén
Amnesty Award Special Mention	Voices of Bam (Stemmen van Bam) Maquilapolis - City of Factories (Maquilápolis)	Maasja Ooms & Aliona van der Horst Vicky Funari & Sergio de la Torre
New Vision Award (short)	Eine Million Kredit ist normal sagt mein Grossvater	Gabriele Mathes
New Vision Award (long)	Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle) Tarachime birth/mother (Tarachime)	Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno Naomi Kawase
Sound & Vision Award	Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Michel Gondry

2007 CPH:DOX

Award	Film	Director
CPH:DOX Award	Santa Fe Street (Calle Santa Fe)	Carmen Castillo
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention	Vesterbro	Michael Noer
Amnesty Award	No End in Sight	Charles Ferguson
Amnesty Award Special Mention	The Not Dead Umbrella (San)	Brian Hill Du Haibin
New Vision Award (short)	France 2007	Gee-Jung Jun
New Vision Award (long)	Dust (Staub) A Crime Against Art	Hartmut Bitomsky Hila Peleg
Sound & Vision Award	Joy Division	Grant Gee
Sound & Vision Award Special Mention	Pilgrimage from Scattered Points	Luke Fowler

2008 CPH:DOX

Award	Film	Director
CPH:DOX Award	Burma VJ	Anders Østergaard
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention	Maggie in Wonderland	Mark Hammersberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark and Beatrice Maggie Andersson
Amnesty Award	Burma VJ	Anders Østergaard
Amnesty Award Special Mention	Dynamiters, Assassins, Fiends.	Joseph Bullman
New Vision Award	The Feature	Michel Auder, Andrew Neel
New Vision Award Special Mention	Morakot	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Sound & Vision Award	Anvil! The Story of Anvil	Sacha Gervasi
Sound & Vision Award Special Mention	Gogol Bordello Non-Stop	Margarita Jimeno

2009 CPH:DOX

Award	Film	Director
DOX Award	Trash Humpers	Harmony Korine
DOX Award Special Mention	Mr. Governor	Måns Månsson
Amnesty Award	Presumed Guilty	Geoffrey Smith, Roberto Hernández
Amnesty Award Special Mention	Defamation	Yoav Shamir
New Vision Award	shared by: O'er The Land and Trypps 1-6	Deborah Stratment / Ben Russell
Sound & Vision Award	La Faute Des Fleurs	Vincent Moon
Sound & Vision Award Special Mention	The Delian Mode	Kara Blake

2010 CPH:DOX

Award	Film	Director
DOX Award	Le Quattro Volte	Michelangelo Frammartino
DOX Award Special Mention	The Autobiography of Nicolae Cweaucescu	Andrei Ujica
DANISH:DOX Award	shared by: The Naked of St. Petersburg and Empire North	Ada Bligaard Søby / Jakob Boeskov
DANISH:DOX Award Special Mention	Fini	Jacob Schulsinger
Amnesty Award	Pink Saris	Kim Longinotto
New Vision Award	In Free Fall	Hito Steyerl
New Vision Award Special Mention	Out	Roee Rosen
Sound & Vision Award	Separado	Dylan Goch, Gruff Rhys
Sound & Vision Award Special Mention	Backyard	Árni Sveinsson
SHORT:DOX Award	Irma	Charles Fairbanks
Politikens Publikumspris	Lost Inside a Dream – The Story of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy	Theis Molin

References

1. ^ http://www.cphdox.dk/d/a2.lasso?d=2009101&l=6&-session=D:57486A7818bbd227F7KJqR2B5751
2. ^ http://www.cphdox.dk/d1/fa.lasso?n=681

External links

• CPH:DOX official site
• CPH:DOX at MySpace
• CPH:DOX 2007 trailer at YouTube