by Institute of Documentary Film, Czech Republic

receiving Medal of Excellence: Integrative / Convergent Media

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Laudation:
Laudator: Babara Köpplova

DOKweb.net – Gateway to Eastern European Documentary Films is an excellent approximation to Eastern European societies as they are reflected through  the film media, also linked with database on filmmakers, filmographies, organisations, markets a.s.o. . It is designed especially for documentary professionals in order to use it as a source of information on the development of film in East Europe through its history and reflecting its contemporaneous period of production.

DOKweb has to be estimated not only as a well structured archive based on wide ranging research and collection -  usable as a moving website, but also as a project that is engaged and involved in the film discourse on documentation of countries in transition The website is a extremely usable tool in getting orientation on what is going on in documentary film and in same time shows the lively film life in Eastern Europe  as it ever has been. Therefore the Jury  is happy to award the DOKweb.net  media project with the Erasmus EuroMedia Medal of Excellence.

by FWU Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht GmbH, Germany

receiving Medal of Excellence: e-Teaching Material

Laudation:
Laudator: Bernd Mikuszeit

“Einwanderungsland Deutschland” is a DVD for pupils from class 8.
The DVD is planned, primarily, for the application in the fields of the political education and in the historical lessons.
In Germany about 7 million foreigners live and one adds people with migration background to it, then these are about 16 millions. However, what does mean migration? And what is integration? Who comes to Germany and for which reasons? And how do migrants live in Germany?
The DVD offers a new film, graphics and short films to this society-political subject field.

The DVD contáins the film parts:
- „Country with an open immigration policy Germany“,
- „Migration in count“,
- „If you see me, what do you think?“ and
- „What does mean integration?“.
Three pòrtraits give insights, into different forms, of her Migration to Germany.

In the ROM part of the DVD there are tips for the use in the lessons, worksheets and other materials. The DVD can help, in exemplary kind to suppòrt, the topical integration discussions in Germany. „Einwanderungsland Deutschland”  is an excellent multimedia programme.
Therefore the DVD is awarded with a Erasmus Award.

by The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (1956 Institute), Hungary
receving Medal of Excellence: Networking Media

Laudation:
Laudator: Palitanus Zoltan

In Hungary the present political, social, and moral situation is largely influenced by the historical events of the 20th century.The 1956 foundation made a considerable effort, to show the main periods of this time, showing impressive photographs of the events.We can glimpse not only the history crisis, but the everyday life and cultural events as well. The elements of this database are true visual documents of these eras taken by those people who lived in these ages. Therefore we can recognize not only their ways of life but their points of view and their attitudes, feelings to their times.The database can be regarded as important inheritance for the present generation, to understand the current situation of our country.

by Regional TV Programme Koper-Capodistria, RTV Slovenia, Slovenia

receiving Medal of Excellence: Documentary / Report

Laudation:
Laudator: Marko Ivanišin

Boris Pahor is internationally most recognized Slovene writer, the only Slovene to be nominated for the Nobel prize. Although he was not awarded that prize it was another prize he received, the Premio Napoli, that might have been even more valuable for him. Boris Pahor, a 87 years old citizen of Trieste, is today fulfilling the mission that should have been fulfilled decades ago. As an eye-witness of dicatorships in Italy and Germany he is enlightening pupils and students on this topic across Italy. In Italy his books and publications were until recently put aside as bad consciens for Italian opression of Slovenes in Trieste and other Italian places. But with the Napoli prize his book on early Italian fascism these nacist movements became historical fact also in Italian curriculums.
In the documentary Boris Pahor A Stubborn Memory writers importance for Slovene, Italian and European history is documented in multiple ways with lots of sense for a portrait on the one side and historical events on the other.

by Rita Productions, Switzerland receiving

Medal of Excellence: Fictional Programme

Laudation:
Laudator:  Joachim Thoma

The film „Déchaînées“ has among others two outstanding components. In his television film, the director succeeds in combining political history with moving personal female destinies. At the same time the film represents a plea to preserve the audio-visual heritage susceptible in many archives to danger of gradual chemical deterioration. The 19-year old Lucie learns from such archive material as a television intern how the European-wide movement of the 68s has also left its marks in her family. The marks she pursues impressively illustrate the questions of female self-determination through three generations. The film combines well-portrayed characters with continuing suspense up to the end without aiming to be preceptive. It is also a document of the common ground in European post war-history.

Der Film „Déchaînées“ hat unter anderem zwei herausragende Komponenten. Dem Regisseur gelingt es mit seinem Fernsehfilm politische Geschichte mit berührenden, persönlichen Frauen-Schicksalen zu verbinden. Gleichzeitig ist der Film ein Plädoyer für den Erhalt des audio-visuellen Erbes, das in vielen Archiven der Gefahr einer schleichenden chemischen Zerstörung ausgesetzt ist. Über solches Archivmaterial erfährt die 19-jährige Lucie als Praktikantin beim Fernsehen, wie die europaweite Bewegung der 68-er Jahre auch in ihrer Familie Spuren hinterlassen hat. Die Spuren, denen sie nachgeht beleuchten in eindrucksvoller Weise die Fragen nach weiblicher Selbstbestimmung quer durch drei Generationen. Der Film verbindet gut gezeichnete Figuren mit einer bis zum Ende anhaltenden Spannung ohne belehrend sein zu wollen. Er ist auch ein Dokument für die Gemeinsamkeit europäischer Nachkriegsgeschichte .