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SPECIAL MENTION
Category 3: Documentary programmes with a musical or dance theme
BRITTEN'S CHILDREN
BBC Classical Music Television, United Kingdom
Co-producer: Mentorn
The Jury Statement: The Jury's final Special Mention goes to a strong but carefully balanced film confronting a provocative subject in a remarkably clear-eyed way: BRITTEN'S CHILDREN, Produced by BBC Classical Music Television, directed by John Bridcut
Category 3: Documentary programmes with a musical or dance theme
MARIA JOAO PIRES: DISCOVERING SOUND
NPS (Nederlandse Programma Stichting), The Netherlands
Co-producer: IdtV Arts & Documentaries, NHK Japan, Wereldomroep, RNTV
The Jury Statement: The Jury also awards a Special Mention to a documentary about a masterclass given by one of the most open-hearted an charismatic musicians of our time: MARIA JOAO PIRES: DISCOVERING SOUND, Produced by NPS and IdTV, The Netherlands, directed by Roel van Dalen
Category 1: Music or dance programmes made for television
HOLOCAUST - A MEMORIAL FILM FROM AUSCHWITZ
BBC Classical Music Television, United Kingdom
Co-producer: CBC, ZDF, TVP & in association with Czech TV
The Jury Statement: A Special Mention also goes to a controversial and powerful programme, which stirred strong emotions and opinions within the Jury: HOLOCAUST - A MEMORIAL FILM FROM AUSCHWITZ, Produced by BBC Classical Music Television, directed by James Kent
Category 1: Music or dance programmes made for television
EMBRACING TIME
IdtV Arts & Documentaries, The Netherlands
Co-producer: NPS, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
The Jury Statement: The Jury would like to give a Special Mention to a mysterious and intense interpretation of Mahler through dance: EMBRACING TIME, Produced by IdTV, The Neterlands, directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen
STUDENT PRIZE
HERCULES
BEL AIR MEDIA, France
Co-producer: OPERA DE PARIS, NEF
The Student Jury Statement: Although we didn't choose the following two programmes as our winner we still want to mention them. "Embracing Time" is a programme which created an enchanting and dreamlike atmosphere by finding visual correspondences to Mahler´s songs. Moreover we appreciated the special idea of this screen dance fantasy.
Also we liked the intimate portrayal of Maria Jo?o Pires in the documentary "Discovering sound". We had the feeling that this documentary provided a deep insight into her thoughts towards music and life.
We awarded this year'student prize to "Hercules" because of the visually and emotionally stunning qualities of this programme.
"Hercules" proved to be even more than a live recording of a baroque opera. It is an audivisual masterpiece which achieved to unite the finest of all arts involved and turned out to be an unique artwork.
Besides a phantastical performance and phantastic opera singing, we really appreciated the fact that the cast - including the choir - managed to put us right to the emotional center of the opera through its expressive acting which has been perfectly captured by the television cameras. Every image had visual power almost like a painting would provide it. The adaptation of the stage lighting led to a perceptible feeling of space and provided the perfect basis of truly filmic images.
The editing not only let the spectator perfectly understand the stage director´s approach to narration but created a truly cinematic way of telling a story. We felt that it perfectly fit to the music and even intensified the atmosphere of the stage production.
We really were stunned by recognizing that we felt no need to see this piece in theater anymore because the TV direction went even one step further than "just" recording an impressive stage performance. The moving pictures make a piece of true television art of it.
PRIZE OF the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation "VISION
97".
THE SPIRIT BREATHES WHERE WISHES... A.SCHNITKE.
Tatiana Sidorova, Kultura TV and Radio Broadcasting Copany, Russia
The Foundations’s Statement: The representatives of the Foundation appreciated that this programme put near in a sensitive way the fate of today worldwide recognized composer - a man who spent most of his life in difficult conditions of the Soviet Union.
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR'S PRIZE
BEETHOVEN'S HAIR
RHOMBUS MEDIA INC., Canada
Co-producer: Czech Television, CBC-TV, Dor Film
ITF GP Director’s Statement: The Festival Director appreciated the authors’ ability to captivate wide audience and to brought near through so to say detective investigation Beethoven’s personality to the television viewers, even to those who do not follow the classical music theme regularly.
CZECH CRYSTAL
Category 4:"Live"
recordings of concerts or performances (opera, operetta,
ballet)
LES PALADINS
François Roussillon et Associés , France
Co-producer: France 3, Théatre musical de Paris - Châtelet
The Jury Statement: Category 4 is for live recordings of concerts and performances. This prize goes to the presentation of a work that uses modern technology to make an outrageous but strangely seductive connection between contemporary hip-hop dance and the 18th century music of Rameau: LES PALADINS, Produced and directed by Francois Roussillon, France
Category 3: Documentary programmes
with a musical or dance theme
I AM THE VIOLIN
IdtV Arts & Documentaries, The Netherlands
Co-producer: NPS
The Jury Statement: Category 3 is for documentary programmes with a music or dance theme. The Jury awards this prize to an affectionate, delicate and atmospheric film about a remarkable musician and eccentric personality. This intimate portrait reveals the story of a woman whose destiny reads like a personal history of the 20th century. She is Ida Haendel, the programme is: I AM THE VIOLIN, Produced by IdTV, The Netherlands, directed by Paul Cohen
Category 2: Music or dance
programmes adapted for television
BIRTH-DAY
Lataster&Films, The Netherlands
Co-producer: Nederlands Dans Theater
The Jury Statement: The prize for Category 2, The Best music or dance Programme adapted for television, is awarded to a witty and unusual interpretation of Mozart in ballet form: BIRTH-DAY, Produced by LATASTER FILMS, directed by Petra and Peter Lataster
Category 1: Music or dance
programmes made for television
FLASHMOB: THE OPERA
BBC Classical Music Television, United Kingdom
The Jury Statement: The prize for the very strong category 1, The best music or dance programme made for television, goes to a very watchable, funny and innovative programme that could only exist as a television event, it demonstrates that television can be an art form in itself, and the jury has seen nothing like it before: FLASHMOB: THE OPERA, Produced by BBC Classical music television, directed by Phil Chilvers
Grand Prix GOLDEN PRAGUE
THE NIGHTINGALE
ARTE France, France
Co-producer: AGAT Films & Cie (producer); EMI Music, Mikros Image
The Jury Statement: The Jury awards the Golden Prague to an enchanting, powerful and spectacular blend of live action and animation which appeals to all ages. The Jury especially admires the tenacity of the director in combining all these elements in what was clearly a labour of love: THE NIGHTINGALE, Produced by Agat Films and ARTE France, directed by Christian Chaudet
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