Dragon Awards 2010
The 33:rd Göteborg International Film Festival is over. The Dragon Award Gala and a grand party at Storan closed the 33rd festival. Thank you all who made this festival a success; the audience, sponsors co-workers and the industry. See you next year!
THE DRAGON AWARDS
Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film
The Dragon Award for best Nordic film film is awarded to the film R by Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer.
The award consists of SEK100 000 from the region of Västra Götaland and a dragon stauette.
Motivation: In the film "R" we are introduced to a world, which is a part of and apart from our society, a hierarchy within a hierarchy, a machine where the fate of the individual has no importance. Its harsh unsentimentality goes close to the borderline of pain, and emphasizes the rigidity of the prison system.
Jury: Johan Jonason, director, Sweden; Erlend Loe, author, Norway; Ásdís Thoroddsen, director, Iceland; Kirsi Tykkyläinen, Export Manager, Finland and Vibeke Windeløv, producer, Denmark.
The Nordic Film Award – audience choice goes to The Angel by Margreth Olin, Norway.
The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award
The fourth Ingmar Bergman Award goes to Can Go Through Skin by Esther Rots, The Netherlands. The award consists of one week’s stay at the Bergman week 2010, as well as an engraved stone from the beach of Ingmar Bergman and a dvd box with 23 Bergman films.
The TIBIDA-jury consisted of Jörn Donner, director, Finland, Angela Kovács, actress, Sweden, Enrique Rivero, director, Mexico and last year’s winner.
Best Swedish documentary
The Dragon Award for best documentary goes to Familia by Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits.
Jury: Jona Elfdahl, director, Emrik Larsson, Doc Lounge and Nahid Persson Sarvestani, director, Sweden.
Dragon Award New Talent
The award in the new international on-line short film competition goes to Oh, Holy Night by Niklas Andersson, Sweden.
Motivation: To a film that in a few minutes manages to give us a picture of two complete life stories through one short meeting. Well acted, subtle as well as a mature choice by a young filmmaker.
Jury: Åsa Bernlo, Marit Kapla, Camilla Larsson, Andreas Degerhammar, Håkan Westesson, Göteborg International Film Festival.
Best feature film – audience choice goes to The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls by Leanne Pooley , New Zealand.
INDEPENDENT AWARDS
The Church of Sweden Film Award for best Swedish film goes to Sebbe by Babak Najafi. The award amounts to SEK 50 000.
Motivation: The Church of Sweden Film Award 2010 goes to an existentially gripping depiction of a young person’s ultimate loneliness. The film is a visual gospel about inner strength that transforms physical and mental humiliation into liberation and hope for the future. Babak Najafi’s film Sebbe is a varied drama about a single mother and her son in a Sweden scarred by an age of widespread poverty, and where impotence and explosive desperation make extreme demands on the survival instincts of the individual.
Jury: Mikael Ringlander, priest and project manager The Church of Sweden, Tomas Axelsson, senior lecturer in religious studies, Lisbeth Gustafsson, secretary of culture of The Church of Sweden, Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund, bishop in the diosese of Härnösand.
The FIPRESCI AWARD goes to R by Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer.
FIPRESCI-jury: Leo Bankersen Netherlands, Ulrik Eriksen, Norway, Barbara Lorey de Larrachière, France.
The Kodak Nordic Vision Award goes to the cinematographer Rasmus Videbæk for his work in i The Good Heart. The award consists of raw film to a worth of SEK 50 000.
The Lorens Award of 2010 goes to Kristina Åberg for Metropia.
The award consists of free developing of the winning producer’s next feature film and is estimated to a worth of SEK 500 000.
Motivation: The Lorens Award 2010 goes to a courageous and community involved producer who does not shy away from the difficult or challenging. This year’s producer is a driven person with high artistic ambitions who produces unexpected stories and is not afraid of using new and not yet tested technologies. For her work with the innovative and unique animated film Metropia this year's Lorens Award goes to Kristina Åberg.
Jury: Tony Forsberg, cinematopgrapher, Petra Ahlin, editor, Reza Parsa, director, Jesper Bergom-Larsson, producer, Ali Boriri, filmmaker.
Nordic Film Music Prize
The first Nordic Film Music Prize goes to Dani Strömbäck for the score in Letters to father Jacob. The award amounts to SEK 100 000.
Motivation: The winner of the first Nordic Film Music Prize is Finland's Dani Strömbäck for the spritual transcendance of his piano portrayals for
"Letters to Father Jacob".
Jury of composers: Karsten Fundal, Geir Bøhren, Jean-Paul Wall, Jakob Frimann Magnusson and Heikki Elo.
