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doclisboa 2008 awards International Competition City of Lisbon award for best feature documentary - 15.000 € End of the Rainbow CI Robert Nugent 83´ France 2007 A big multinational mining company transfers a large prospecting gold unit to a remote region of Guinea Conacry, West Africa. In this desperately poor place, the presence of the mine creates an atmosphere of change and conflict among the local inhabitants. What are the advantages of the so proclaimed progress in an African village? The transformation of the world imposed by money doesn’t mean necessarily happiness or a better way of life Odisseia award for first documentary - 5.000 € Must Read After My Death CI Morgan Dews 74´ Spain/USA, 2007 The intimate story of a Connecticut couple in the sixties, Charlie and Allys, told by their own words and images, that turned to psychiatry in order to help their marriage and submit themselves to daily sessions of group and individual therapies. Instructed by their doctors to record their discussions, this unconventional couple is a victim of a traumatic system that promotes the use of drugs and shock therapies, showing a family’s struggle to reconstruct themselves and the moral image of an era. Johnnie Walker award for short documentary - 3.000 € The Rest of a Story CI Antonio Prata 35´ Italy/Switzerland 2007 The film author returns to Zurich, where he had his first experience with heroin and left to cure himself. In a trip through his past, this is his attempt at confronting what remains in his memory. Special Mention To See if I’m Smiling CI Tamar Yaron 59´ Israel 2007 A young Israeli woman director who served in the Israeli Army in occupied territories collects the terrible statements of six women who, in obedience to military logics, like her, committed shameful actions: the humiliation of civilians, the rape and killing of innocent people, pictures taken at the side of murdered victims. The innocence and emotion which they speak with about that period contrasts with the dramatic content of their confessions: “My hands are full of blood”. Investigations Competition RTP 2 award for best investigation documentary - 5.000 € (includes the acquisition of exhibition rights for RTP) The Women of Brukman I Isaac Isitan 90´ Canada 2007 For a few years, filmmaker Isaac Isitan lived inside Brukman, an Argentinean clothing factory on the verge of bankruptcy and expropriation after a social revolution made by women workers. An epic film, The Women of Brukman tells the unique story of a cooperative formed against the background of Argentina's devastating economic collapse, working to give these women their jobs back. An example of success and persistence that created a movement of hope in Argentinean society and that became a sociological “case study”. Portuguese Competition TOBIS award for feature documentary 4.500 € Bab Sebta CN Pedro Pinho and Frederico Lobo 110´ Portugal 2008 Bab Sebta means “the door of Ceuta” in Arabic. It is also the name for the passage between Morocco and Ceuta, the place where all of those who come from several parts of Africa converge to try to get into Europe. Bab Sebta, travels through four cities to meet the time and voices of these travelers. TOBIS award for best short documentary - 1.500€ The Secret (O Segredo) CN Edgar Feldman 25´ Portugal 2008 António Dias Lourenço, 94 years old, communist, remembers the years of incarceration in the Peniche Fort during the fascist dictatorship in Portugal, focusing on the episode of his escape in 1954. The escape, which reveals a remarkable physical courage, is what the film intends to show. Revisiting the old high security prison, Dias Lourenço remembers the adventures he went through. It was after a one-month’s punishment in “the secret” (a small cubicle without light reserved to the worst punishments) that he decided to plan one of the most successful and spectacular escapes. Sony award for first documentary - 3.000 € + HD Camara Queria Ser CN Sílvia Firmino 75´ Portugal 2008 A Primary School is under the risk of closing in Portugal’s inland. Ten students, from first to fourth grade, study in the same room. A film that searches for a program that promotes reading and ends up finding the strength, the ambitions and fears of these children AVID award for best editing – Avid Media Composer 3.0 National 206 (Nacional 206) CN Catarina Alves Costa 53’ Portugal 2008 A film about a textile factory on national highway 206, northern Portugal, in the Ave River Valley. While looking for personal school experiences, director Catarina Alves Costa came across the everyday life and routine of a factory that never shuts down, day or night, and of those who work there. Inside its corridors and enormous machines, we follow the workers’ daily life as they talk about different professional and scholar experiences. Special Mention 0=6 Homeoestética CN Bruno de Almeida 60´ Portugal 2008 A documentary about Homeostética, an art movement born in Lisbon in the early 80’s by Fernando Brito, Ivo, Pedro Portugal, Pedro Proença, Manuel João Vieira and Xana. Using humour in order to distance themselves from the art world, Homeostética cultivated an outsider attitude with strong dada influences, producing an intense body of work that included exhibitions, texts, manifestos, films, rock concerts and other collective performances. Schools Awards IPJ University award forthe best feature documentary in the International competition - 1.500 € Alone in Four Walls CI Alexandra Westmeier 85´ Germany 2007 A journey inside of a juvenile reform school in Russia that houses boys under 15, who have committed offences ranging from theft to rape to multiple murders. Most come from impoverished homes marked by beatings, alcohol abuse and absent. Alone in Four Walls listens carefully to what children have to say. IPJ School award for the best documentary in the Investigation competition - 1.500 € The Women of Brukman I Isaac Isitan 90´ Canada 2007 For a few years, filmmaker Isaac Isitan lived inside Brukman, an Argentinean clothing factory on the verge of bankruptcy and expropriation after a social revolution made by women workers. An epic film, The Women of Brukman tells the unique story of a cooperative formed against the background of Argentina's devastating economic collapse, working to give these women their jobs back. An example of success and persistence that created a movement of hope in Argentinean society and that became a sociological “case study”.