PAF 2010 HAS ENDED
The 9th year of the Festival of Film Animation (PAF) has ended. During the four festival days, the audience had the opportunity to watch 172 films grouped into 54 sections. The British cult director Peter Greenaway, who was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for moving picture cinematography, was the most distinguished guest of the festival. Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto, one of the most significant contemporary audiovisual artists, is among those artists who introduced themselves to the Czech Republic for the first time. Another outstanding event was the world premiere of the gallery video Soft Palate by the Austrian experimentalist Martin Arnold, who preferred Olomouc's premiere to premieres at the Berlin and Rotterdam festivals.
The output of the workshop led by the Polish animator Anna Pankiewicz, and also the European premiere of Don Hertzfeldt's short film I Am So Proud of You were presented at the closing ceremony of the festival. At the ceremony the winner of the competition section Other Visions was announced. The international jury as well as the audience agreed on David Možný's film Rahova winning the award.
The Jury members:
Pip Chodorov, the American filmmaker and gallery owner
Martin Kaňuch, the Slovak film theoretician
Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Wien sixpackfilm's managing director
The Jury announcement:
"Grand Jury Prize goes to Rahova for its excellence, conceptually and technically, in
image and sound. The film composites an inside view into the architecture and the
elements of construction, showing the vulnerability of a formerly pre-fabricated living
environment. It shows dystopia in a playful way, rather than a depressing one."
This year's festival registered enormous audience attendance that completely fulfilled
the festival's capacity.
- Number of journalists 39
- Number of guests 69
- Staff 118
- 4 publications were released within the festival. Moving Image Manifestos: Colour Music, Islands of Animation, Animation Illustration and the catalogue
- The audience had the opportunity to watch 1 world premiere (Martin Arnold: Soft Palate), 1 European premiere (Don Hertzfeldt: I Am So Proud of You), 1 Czech premiere (Pip Chodorov: Free Radicals) and 1 Olomouc premiere (Jan Švankmajer: Přežít svůj život)
GUESTS OF PAF 2010:
Martin Arnold (A), Georgij Bagdasarov (ARM), Pavel Bednařík (CZ), Aneta Biernat (PL), Petr Bilík (CZ), Martin Blažíček (CZ), Andrej Boleslavsky (SK), Brigitta Burger-Utzer (A), Martin Búřil (CZ), Michal Cáb (CZ), Filip Cenek (CZ), Petra Čechová (CZ), Jaroslav Černý (CZ), Eva Červenková (CZ), Jakub Deml (CZ), Eliška Děcká (CZ), Zdeněk Durdil (CZ), Andy Fehu (CZ), Amalia Roxana Filip (RO), Martin Fišr (CZ), Martin Flašar (CZ), Dominik Gajarský (CZ), Pavla Gajdošíková (CZ), Peter Greenaway (UK), Tomáš Hartl (CZ), Jiří Havlíček (CZ), Vladimír Havlík (CZ), Petra Hermanová (CZ), Tomáš Hlobil (CZ), Pavel Horáček (CZ), Jan Horák (CZ), Martin Horák (CZ), Anežka Hošková (CZ), Martin Hrdina (CZ), Magdalena Hrubá (CZ), Tomáš Hrůza (CZ), Pip Chodorov (USA), Jan Jílek (CZ), Anna Jílková (CZ), Marcin Kaproń (PL), Veronika Klusáková (CZ), Jakub Korda (CZ), Jiří Kotrla (CZ), Slavo Krekovič (SK), Martin Krištof (SK), Jan Krtička (CZ), Alena Kupčíková (CZ), Jiří Lach (CZ), David Landa (CZ), Jana Laubová (CZ), Markéta Lisá (CZ), Adam Matěj (SK), Matouš Mědílek (CZ), Žofie Mědílková (CZ), Pavlína Míčová (CZ), David Možný (CZ), Filip Nerad (CZ), Petr Nerušil (CZ), Jakub Němeček (CZ), Carsten Nicolai (DE), Alva Noto (DE), Vilém Novák (CZ), Michal Opitz (CZ), Kateřina Pacíková (CZ), Anna Pankiewicz (PL), Jonatán Pastirčák (SK), Radim Pech (CZ), Kryštof Pešek (CZ), Marek Piacek (SK), Wojciech Piechoński (PL), Ondřej Pilát (CZ), Filip Polanský (CZ), Sylva Poláková (CZ), Tomáš Pospiszyl (CZ), Michal Procházka (CZ), Kateřina Prokopová (CZ), Oliver Rehák (SK), Pavla Sceranková (SK), Anna Segečová (CZ), Piotr Seweryn (PL), Damian Siemasz (PL), Andrea Slováková (SK), Filip Smetana (CZ), Matěj Smetana (CZ), Tereza Sochorová (CZ), Christoph Srb (A), Matěj Strnad (CZ), Ivan Svoboda (CZ), Jan Šrámek (CZ), Roman Štětina (CZ), Rostislav Švácha (CZ), Ladislav Švenajs (CZ), Blanka Švédová (CZ), Viktor Takáč (CZ), Jiří Thýn (CZ), Weronika Ulicka (PL), Tomáš Vaněk (CZ), Petr Vágner (CZ), Lenka Vítková (CZ), Daniel Vlček (CZ), Petr Vlček (CZ), Veronika Vlková (CZ), Eva Votrubová (CZ), Kateřina Zochová (CZ), Romana Zubalová (CZ), Lenka Žampachová (CZ), Jan Žůrek (CZ)
VENUES FOR PAF 2010:
36, Galerie U Mloka, Kino Metropol, Klub Vertigo, Umělecké centrum Univerzity Palackého: Café Tungsram Transit, Galerie Monitor, Kaple Božího Těla, Bílá nora, Divadelní sál, Filmový sál, Galerie Podkroví
FESTIVAL ORGANIZER:
Pastiche Filmz
FESTIVAL SUPPORTED BY:
Státní fond České republiky pro podporu a rozvoj české kinematografie, Visegrad Fund, Statutární město Olomouc, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Palackého, Univerzita Palackého, Česko-německý fond budoucnosti, Rakouské kulturní fórum, Olomoucký kraj, Adobe, National Film Board of Canada.
OUR PARTNERS:
Krátký film Praha, Asociace českých filmových klubů, Olomoucká kina s.r.o, Profit, Galerie U Mloka, Divadlo Konvikt, AV Media, Cenega, Mediabaze.cz
MAIN MEDIA PARTNERS:
A2, Radio Wave
MEDIA PARTNERS:
Art Map, Český rozhlas Olomouc, Český rozhlas Vltava, Freemusic, Pixel, Kino Ikon, Vice, H_aluze, Anonym, Kuultur.com, His Voice, Radio FM, Kultura 21, Metoo, Radio 1, Fantom, 25fps, Cinepur, Film a doba, Rádio Haná, Olomoucký večerník, Prostějovský večerník, dokoncertu.cz, Bio Oko, Mix.cz
PARTNER FESTIVALS:
Animánie (CZ), Anifest (CZ), Fest Anča (SK), Kecskemét Animation Film Festival (HU), UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival (AUS)
CLOSING PRESS RELEASE PAF 2010
