Competition Theme

·2005 Competition Theme：Women Today

The theme of GZDOC 2005 is "Women Today". Documentary films covering the aspects of today's women, women’s independence or their self-awareness will be accepted for the competition. The prizes are: Grand Prize, Jury Prize, Special Prize and Chinese Producer Prize. The competition application deadline is: Sep 30th, 2005 (The application shall be submitted online through www.gzdoc.com ) Documart of GZDOC 2005 is open to documentaries with any theme. Participants with production plans are especially encouraged. The submitted plans will be reviewed and commented by commissioning editors and investors from all over the world. For Documart, GZDOC 2005 will sponsor 30 Chinese producers who are working on the themes on Chinese History and Culture, Women and Children, Nature, Animals and Environmental Protection; These Chinese producers will be provided free round-trip air tickets to come to Guangzhou. The application deadline for Documart is: Sep 30th, 2005 (The application shall be submitted online through www.gzdoc.com ) The following screenings will be held during GZDOC 2005: Screening of Polish Documentary Films Screening of German Documentary Films Screening of Canadian Documentary Films Screening of Chinese Documentary Films Screening of the finalists of competition entries of GZDOC 2005. The 2004 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival attracted films featuring children from 23 different countries and areas including United Arab Emirate, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cuba, Estonia, Holland, France, Germany, the United Kingdoms, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey and the United States. List of organizations and guests participated in GZDOC 2004: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Asia Pacific, Australian SBS Television Australia Film Television Radio School French London Quartier Latin Media Co., Ltd Deutsche Welle Westdeutscher Rundfunk International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films NHK Japan Nippon Hoso Kyokai Mexico Media Center Poland National TV Station Polish Kracow Film Festival L’Association des Cineastes Polonais South African SEED F Entertainment Director of Programming at the Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus (Brasil) in 2004 UNICEF Beijing Officer US Discovery Channel US National Geographic New Zealand Nature History China TV Documentary Academic Association BEIJING SCIENCE & EDUCATIONAL FILM STUDIO People’s Daily Online China Association For Science & Technology China Science Film And Video Association China National Working Committee For Children and Women Under The State Council State Administration of Radio, Film and TV China State Council Information Office China International TV Corporation CCTV Overseas Liaisons Department of China CCTV China Intercontinental Communication Center China DTV Production Co., Ltd China Central Newsreel & Documentary Studio Beijing Channel Zero Advertising Co. Ltd Beijing Culture Link Media Co. Ltd China Broadcasting, Movie and Television Newspaper Industry Weekly People’s Daily Arts Dept Chongqing Television, Guangxi Television Guangzhou Television, Guangzhou heavens art audio & video co.,ltd Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Ha Erbin Television Hang Zhou Television Hu Bei Television Hu Nan Television Kun Ming Television Shanghai Documentary Channel of Shanghai Television Shanghai Media Group Wings Media Co.,Ltd Cheng Du Shulong Culture Communication Co.,Ltd Shan Tou Television Shen Yang Television Documentary Channel of Shenzhen Television Wu Han Television Su Zhou Television Shannxi Television Hong Kong Asia-Pacific Vision Phoenix Satellite Television Co., Ltd

·2004 Competition Theme：Children and Teenagers

The theme of GZDOC 2004 is "Children and Teenagers". Entries for competition at GZDOC 2004 will cover the following aspects of the theme: today's children and teenagers, their life, their development and their place in our society. Winners selected by GZDOC 2004 jury will be awarded prizes. For details, please refer to the Competition Regulations Section and the Awards Section. The 2004 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival is intended to build a communication and trade channel between international documentary film investors, producers and distributors. Participants, namely, international producers, television stations, distributors, advertising companies and investors will find GZDOC 2004 a good opportunity to explore future cooperation. Please refer to Festival Program, Regulations for Documart and Participant List for more information. The topics for the seminars in the Forum will include lives of today's children and teenagers, problems they face and the issues related to the making of documentary films concerning children and teenagers. The 2003 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival attracted people from different walks of life: producers, scholars, distributors, journalists, representatives from television stations and education entities and college students. The participants came from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's Special Broadcasting Service(SBS), the Australian Film Television and Radio School, the China Television Association Television Documentary Film Academic Committee,China International TV Corporation,the Beijing Broadcasting Institute of China, China Intercontinental Communication Center, China State Council Information Office, China Science Movie & Television Institution,China Central Television, China Beijing Television, China Shanghai Television, the School of Journalism at Fudan University, China Sichuan Television, China Guangdong Television, China Guangzhou Television, China Shandong Television, China Dalian Television, Guangzhou Jinan University, the Science and Technology Film College of France, the Documentary & Experimental Film Center of Iran, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation of Japan, Documentary Section of the Polish Filmmakers Association, Discovery Channel of the US, the Asian American Studies Department of the University of California at Berkeley, WGBH from the US and London xxx Latin Media Co., Ltd. Some well-known figures in the documentary field have attended the 2003 Festival. We would like to extend our thanks to Mr. Mohammad Afarideh, Mr. Vikram Channa, Mr. Chen Hanyuan, Ms. Cheng Chunli, Ms. Annick Demeule, Ms. Mitzi Goldman, Mr. Li Jinyuan, Mr. Edmond Moukala, Mr. Zvi Dor-Ner, Mr. Michael Noll, Mr. Wang Ling-chi and Mr. Koji Watanabe for their attendance and support. The 2004 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival will be held at Dongfang Hotel, Guangzhou.

·2003 Competition Theme：Cultural Heritage

The theme of the festival is cultural heritage/cultural diversity. The festival will consist of screenings and seminars, and one-off broadcasts on Guangzhou Television. The festival outline, together with the regulations, entry form and technical record of entry, is attached. I am concerned to see that this festival is truly international and that there is a wide variety of perspectives represented in film. Therefore, films provided by the 18 governments represented in Guangzhou by consulates-general will make up 25 per cent of the total number of films to be included in the festival. 25 percent will be Chinese films. 25 percent will be suggested by Image and Science, IFTC/CICT at UNESCO and 25 percent will be sourced from the internet or those suggested by people working in documentary film or related areas. In order to attract international interest and participation, the following prizes will be awarded: Grand Prize, Jury Prize and five special prizes.* The five jury members are : Australia - Mitzi Goldman (Head of Documentary Australian Film Television and Radio School) France - Annick Demeule (Executive Committee Member of IFTC/CICT at UNESCO) Germany - Michel Noll (independent producer) Iran - Dr Mohammad Afarideh (President of the Documentary and Experimental Film Centre) USA - Zvi Dor-Ner (a producer for WGBH). There will also be a Chinese academic yet to be nominated. GZTV has made a large financial allocation to this project. This represents a very significant commitment towards greater engagement with the international cultural community. I look forward to receiving your entries. Li Jinyuan Director GZTV * Details of prize money are available from catherine.h@gzdoc2003.com

Prizewinners

·2005 China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Film Festival Awards

Grand Prize——《Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan》（Kyrgyzstan） Jury Prize——《Big Family》（China） Special Prize for Best Direction——《The German Secret》（Denmark） Special Prize for Best First Film——《Keep Not Silent》（Israel） Special Prize for Most Innovative Approach——《Post Partum》（Canada） Chinese Producer Prize for Best Reportages——《Lang Jin and her Sisters》（China） Chinese Producer Prize for Best Research——《Scared Memory》（China）

·2004 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival Awards

Grand Prize     --     Kindergarten(China) Jury Prize     --     DASHA(Poland) Special Prize     --     Japan Education(Japan) Academic Prize     --     BORN DEAD(Poland) Academic Prize     --     TOM .W(Poland) Academic Prize     --     Three Generations,One:Firet Steps to Master(Japan) Academic Prize     --     STARKISS: CIRCUS GIRLS IN INDIA(Holland)

·2003 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival Awards

Grand Prize——《An Old Mirror》(CHINA) Jury Prize——《Parnian》(IRAN) Special Prize—— 1.《Sadness》(AUSTRALIA) 2.《Mother India》(AUSTRALIA) 3.《Stolen Generations》(AUSTRALIA) 4.《The Story of Longjin Paper》(CHINA) 5.《Blossoms of Fire》(UNITE STATES)

Jury

GZDOC 2005 Jury

NAME COUNTRY TITLE COMPANY 1 Michel Noll (Jury President) France Chairman and C.E.O. Quartier Latin Ltd., London 2 Brett Hendrie Canada Managing Director Hot Docs 3 >Jing Gaodi China Vice President Hubei TV 4 Yvonne Kgame/td> South Africa Head of Content Hub SABC 5 Annick MELSAN-THEBIA Brazil Writer/Director Independent 6 Janey Walker UK Managing Editor, Commissioning Channel Four 7 Liu Xiaoli China Chairman China TV Documentary Academic Association

GZDOC 2004 Jury

Hanyuan Chen President of China Academic Committee of Television Documentary,China Vikram Channa Director of Production, Discovery Networks Asia Gerald Herve Noel Duduyer Director of Programming, AMAZONAS FILM FESTIVAL/MANAUS(Brasll)2004 Jun Furukawa Senior Producer(Program Production) Satellite Broadcasting Department,NHK Japan Broadcasting Corportation Jutta Krug WDR Fran Landsman Indenpendent Producer from Great Britain Sue Bennett Manager, Program Planning ABC Asia Pacific DANIAN ZHONG Professor, China Media University Program Vice Director, Phoenix Satellite

GZDOC 2003 Jury

Mohammad Afarideh ——     Chairman of the Documentary Film Research Center,Iran Hanyuan Chen ——     President of China Academic Committee of Television Documentary,China Annick Demeule ——     Member of the International Film Audio-Visual Committee of the UNESCO,France Mitzi Goldman ——     Head of Documentary Australian Film Television and Radio School,Australia Jisheng Guo ——     Assistant to Chief Editor,China Michel Noll ——     Independent producer,Germany/France Changze Zhu ——     Guangzhou Television Programme Director,China Zvi Dor-Ner ——     Executive Producer WGBH,USA

VIP List

COUNTRY NAME TITLE COMPANY 1 Australia Stuart Menzies Head of Documentaries Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) 2 Australia Jennifer Crone Commissioning Editor of Documentaries Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) 3 Canada Cindy Witten Vice President, Original Production Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting 4 Canada Rudy Buttignol Creative Head TVOntario 5 Denmark Mette Hoffmann Meyer Head of Documentaries and Factual Programming TV2 6 Poland Agata Pietkiewicz International Affairs Director TVPoland 7 France Caroline Behar Deputy Head of Acquisitions and International Coproductions France 5 8 France/ Germany Christoph Jorg Commissioning Editor Arte France 9 France Yves Jeanneau Festival Director SunnySide of the Doc 10 Germany Hans Robert Eisenhauer Commissioning Editor ZDF 11 Japan Nobuo Isobe Senior Producer (Program Production) Satellite Broadcasting Department NHK 12 Netherlands Marijke Rawie Head of Arts & Documentary AVRO Broadcasting Association 13 Norway John Ranelagh Head of Acquisition TV 2 Norway 14 United Kingdom Nick Fraser Commissioning Editor Storyville British Broadcasting Company (BBC) 15 U.S.A. Allison Winshel Senior Director, Primetime Programming Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) 16 U.S.A. Erika Green Director of Acquisitions Oxygen Media Inc. 17 U.S.A. Carlyn Staudt Director, Programming National Geographic Channels International 18 Malaysia Aegena Tay Head of Programming, China Discovery Asia, Inc. 19 U.K Jan Younghusband Commissioning Editor Arts Channel Four 20 South Africa Nhlanhla Hlongwane Commissioning Editor South Africa Broadcasting Company (SABC) 21 Mexico Eva Villarreal Acquisitions Director Channel 22 22 Germany Wolfgang Fandrich Director of Programming – TBC title MDR Berlin 23 Guangzhou, China Fei Yong Deputy President Guangzhou TV 24 Sichuan, China Sun Jianying Head of International Affairs Department Sichuan TV 25 Beijing, China Wang Zhongyun Head of Information Center Tourism TV 26 Beijing, China Li Hong Deputy Director of Feature Documentary Department, Social Issues CCTV 27 Beijing, China Liang Hong Producer CCTV 28 Shanghai, China Jin Yang Executive Producer Shanghai TV 29 Yunnan, China Hao Yuejun The principal of documentary centre Yunnan TV 30 Germany Schreiber,Thomas Controller Factual & Children Programs NDR

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