- ZagrebDox
Infobox Film Festival
name = ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival
caption = ZagrebDox 2008 masthead
location =Zagreb ,Croatia
awards = Veliki pečat
Mali pečat
founded = 2005
host =
number = 145
language = International
website = http://www.zagrebdox.net/"ZagrebDox" is an international documentary film festival established by
Nenad Puhovski in 2005 and held annually inZagreb ,Croatia .It is the biggest festival of its kind in South East Europe and its goals are to showcase documentary films from the region as well as to provide a meeting place for authors from all over the world, to offer quality documentary features to local audiences and to help promote documentary film as one of the basic film genres. Apart from screenings, the festival usually organizes workshops, presentations and pitching forums designed to help aspiring film authors in developing their projects. In addition to the official competition program (which is divided into a regional and an international category), the festival often features retrospectives of well-known authors and various national cinemas.
The festival is organized by a Zagreb-based film production company called "Factum", and is usually held in February . The 2008 edition featured 140 films from 30 countries and attracted an audience of around 20,000 people.
Awards
Prizes are awarded in the following categories:
* The Veliki pečat "(Big Stamp)" international award for best film in international competition, as voted by jury
* The Veliki pečat regional award for best film in regional competition, as voted by jury
* The Mali pečat "(Little Stamp)" award for best film made by authors who are under 30 years of age, as voted by jury
* The T-Com Audience Award for best film overall, as voted by audiencesAward winners
"Veliki pečat" international competition award
"T-Com Audience Award"
: *(In 2005 the award was called "Veliki pečat audience award". In 2007 it was reintroduced and renamed "T-Com Audience Award" for sponsorship reasons.)
Special awards
Apart from the regular categories, the festival sometimes awards special prizes, usually related to themes of a particular festival edition.
External links
* [http://www.zagrebdox.net/ "ZagrebDox" official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/zagrebdox "ZagrebDox" at MySpace]
* [http://www.factumdocumentary.com/ "Factum" production company official website]
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