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09/10/06

Arcana wins the Docúpolis Award to the best Documentary Docúpolis 06

15.000 spectators have visited the 6th edition of Docúpolis that has finished today with the awards delivery of the sections in contest and honorific awards.
The documentary by Cristóbal Vicente Arcana has won the Docúpolis Award to the Best Documentary endowed with 6.000 euros. Arcana is an intismist portrait, contemplative and poetic that brings us near to a subjective experience and to the quotidianity of the prisoners in the antique penal establishment of Valparaíso, Chile. According to the jury, Vicente has realised a committed and critical documentary with a big expressive strength and a careful mise en escene. However, this year’s jury formed by Mercedes Álvarez, Montserrat Santamarina and Bru Rovira, have decided to give an especial mention to El Color de los Olivos by Carolina Rivas for its use of the sound, because the minimal sound elements she works with are converted in key elements to understand the confinement and loneliness universe of a Palestinian family.

Gran Angular Award to the Best documental short movie has been to Si no hay viento no suben by Mauricio González, a portrait of a youthful band in Colombia. The members of the jury –Agustí Argelich, Joan López and Cesc Tomàs- has outstand the capacity to explain the origin of the youthful violence and to show the proper violence using a non-explicit way. The documental short movie by Maurico Ganzález will be broadcasted in the TVE Catalunya programme Gran Angular and will receive 3.000 euros. 
On the other hand, the jury of Opera Prima Award, composed by Joan Babiloni, Josep Maria Caparrós and Jorge Ribalta, has awarded the documentary by David Martín de los Santos La isla durmiente, which will be distributed by Ermedia. This documentary is an anthropological approximation to the present rural Cuban society with a “visual construction of great character” and “delicate and sensitive with the characters conditions”. The result is a “poetic and original” work, according to the jury.  The same jury has decided to give an special mention to Felices Fiestas by Juan Barney for “its critical and complex view to the problem of mental health and normality.
A part from the Awards to the Contest sections Docúpolis has given the honorific Awards. Tercer Ojo Award – Best experimental documentary has gone to Paraíso by Felipe Guerrero for his formal investigation capacity that shows his images edition in super8 with a great soundtrack without dialogs.
The Human Rights Award has gone to Punam de Lucian Muntean. This award distinguishes the documentary with most commitment with the human rights and the denunciation of its violations. Punam makes both tasks showing the life conditions of some children in Nepal in a brutal and touching history.
The Award to the Best SouthAmerican Documentary that wants to outstand the documentary production in a zone full of complexities and conditionings, has been given to El comité de Mateo Herrera iUnser America de Kristina Konrad. Herrera’s documentary recoups the cinema verité tradition putting the camera in the place where the events happen. And Unser Amerika is a construction work of the historic memory from pieces.
Docúpolis audience has given the Audience Award the documentary Désobéir by Patricio Henríquez which portrays the several soldiers that disobeyed orders due to their moral convictions. 
Finally, the Award l’Home de la Càmera has recognised the trajectory of the Dutch documentary master Joris Ivens –whose retrospective was presented in Docúpolis 2006-. This Award was given last Friday to Marceline Loridan, Joris Ivens’ widow and president of the European Foundation Joris Ivens.