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SCENECS International Debut Film Festival

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SCENECS International Debut Film Festival, is held annually in Hilversum, the Netherlands and is produced by the SCENECS foundation.

Festival

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The festival uniquely promotes new and emerging filmmakers from around the world. It provides a platform to introduce themselves and their craft to their new audience and also to the film industry. Here, the completed films receive their first preview. The entries also participate in an international competition in the categories fiction, short fiction, documentary and student film. The winning entries in each category receive an award, shich is presented at the SCENECS Grand Gala Award Event, this ceremony wraps up the end of the festival on the last night.[1] SCENECS consist of a film festival, award ceremony, international exchange program and different activities with regards to film education and the development of talent.

History

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The festival was founded in 2006 by the film maker Arya Tariverdi and organised in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.[2] It is the first film festival in the Netherlands to focus entirely on debutant filmmakers. In 2016 the festivalmoved its program and head office to the media city of Hilversum.

Festival locations

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The venues of the festival are currently: VUE Hilversum, Studio 21, Film Theater Hilversum and various libraries.

Awards

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Official award

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This award, called "the Dutch Golden Stone Award" is in the image of a winged female form, with a golden stone in her hands. The Award for the First Edition of the Filmfestival was initially designed by Isabeau Nagel but due to reproductive issues & artistic differences on the adaption of the first design, the Award for the following filmfestivals was re-designed and further produced by the Dutch artist Ellis de Kreij.

Award categories

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The Dutch Golden Stone Award is awarded during the annual Grand Gala Award Event to the directors of the categories of Best Fiction, Best Short Fiction, Best Documentary and Best Student Film.[3] In addition awards are also presented in the categories of Best Acting Talent, Audience Award and Litetime Achievement Award.

Miss SCENECS Film Festival

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In 2006 the festival introduced "Miss SCENECS Film Festival". Every year a young talented woman from the entertainment and film industry is selected by the organization and awarded with this title. Her role in this title is as festival ambassador and promote its activities. Miss SCENECS Film Festival portraits the Dutch Golden Stone Award and during the award event she awards the winners. In 2017 Miss Asia Pacific International (2016), Tessa le Conge was awarded with this title.

Award Winners

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SCENECS Award for Best Fiction

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Year Film Director Country
2006 Zeven Zonden Naäma Palfrey  Netherlands
2007 Gödel Igor Kramer  Netherlands
2008 Brand Niels Bourgonje  Netherlands
2009 Bingo Timur Ismailov  Azerbaijan
2010 Wing: The Fish That Talked Back Ricky Rijneke  Netherlands
2011 Geen Weg Terug Shariff Korver  Netherlands
2012 Atomes Arnaud Dufeys  Belgium
2013 Silent Ones Ricky Rijneke  Netherlands
2014 Bahar In Wonderland Behrooz Karamzizade  Germany
2015 Beste Vrienden Ruwan Heggelman  Netherlands
2016 Journey To The Mother Mikhail Kosyrev Nesterov  France /  Russia
2017 Tenderness Emilia Zielonka  Poland
2018 An American In Texas Anthony Pedone  United States

SCENECS Award for Best Short Fiction

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Year Film Director Country
2016 One In Vasha Narace  Trinidad and Tobago
2017 The Wedding Patrol Rogier Hardeman  Germany
2018 You Did Not Forget Simon Intihar  Slovenia

SCENECS Award for Best Documentary

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Year Film Director Country
2006 Vingers Op Het Glas Olaf Koelewijn & Edwin Bakker  Netherlands
2007 Zo Is Dat – Het Zijn En De Aarde Elizabeth Rocha Salgado  Netherlands
2008 Ypke Yasper Huizinga  Netherlands
2009 Diary of a Times Square Thief Klaas Bense  Netherlands
2010 Lonely Pack Justin Peach  Germany
2011 Village Without Women Srdjan Sarenac  Bosnia and Herzegovina
2012 Meanwhile in Mamelodi Benjamin Kahlmeyer  Germany
2013 Odysseus Gambit Alex Lora Cercos  Spain
2014 North East Hard West Bart van den Aardweg  Netherlands
2016 A Lizard Under the Skin Maud Neve  Belgium
2017 Closer to Maarten Raimond Grimbergen  Netherlands
2018 The Island Adam Weingrod  Israel

SCENECS Lifetime Achievement Award

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Year Director / Producer
2009 Jos Stelling
2010 Jean van den Velde
2011 Pieter Verhoeff
2012 Dick Maas
2013 Dave Schram & Maria Peters
2014 Hans de Wolf
2016 Steven de Jong
2017 Jeroen Beker

VUE Audience Award

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Year Film Director Country
2011 Lieve Anne-Marieke Anne-Marieke Graafmans  Netherlands
2012 Framing the Other Willem Timmers & Ilja Kok  Netherlands
2013 Onomkeerbaar Maaike Broos  Netherlands
2014 Bonapetit! Anastasia Lukovnikova  Russia
2014 Last of you Dan Sachar  Israel
2015 Dance Iranian Style Farshad Aria  Netherlands
2016 Gender Victory Len Enkhuizen  Netherlands
2017 A Lifetime of Love Carilijne Pieters  Netherlands
2018 Wheels of Change Jaime Prins  Netherlands

SCENECS Talent Award

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Year Film Director Country
2016 Mannenpraat Sean Musch, Manon Zwaan & Richard van der Spoel  Netherlands
2017 Always Move Forward Fergus Riem Vis  Netherlands
2018 Breaking Borders Barabara Vollebregt en Fatima Warsame  Netherlands

SCENECS Award for Best Acting Talent

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Year Film Director Country
2017 Spaak Tim Douwsma  Netherlands
2018 The Conductor [nl] Christanne de Bruijn [nl]  Netherlands

References

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[1] [2] [3]

  1. ^ a b "Scenecs International Film Festival announces 2017 winners". screenanarchy.com. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
  2. ^ a b "SCENECS International Debut Film Festival". FilmFreeway.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  3. ^ a b "SCENECS International Debut Film Festival". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
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