Festival Director thanks supporters for longstanding

Festival Director thanks supporters for longstanding

PRESS RELEASE
PRESSEMITTEILUNG
57. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
57th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
27 October – 02 November 2014
Press Release #07/2014
14 October 2014
Festival Director thanks supporters for longstanding loyalty
A decade of growth and development is behind DOK Leipzig. On the occasion of his departure at
the end of this year, Festival Director Claas Danielsen acknowledges the continuing involvement of
all supporters of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. DOK Leipzig
2014 sees 19 sponsors, 15 funders, and many other partners involved - including by funding
awards. A total of 17 awards to the value of 66,500 Euro will be presented at DOK Leipzig this year the highest prize money for a documentary film festival in Germany.
Sponsors
Among the 19 sponsors are firms such as TELEPOOL GmbH, Computer Leipzig or Ils
Medientechnik, which have supported DOK Leipzig since Danielsen took office as director in 2004.
Other firms such as IQ Steuerberatungsgesellschaft are new onboard. Still others have markedly
expanded their involvement, such as DOK partner MaXxPrint, our media partner MDR, or DOK
supporter nextbike, who visibly increase the festival's presence. BIG Cinema and the Technischer
FilmDienst were indispensible for the successful digitalisation of the festival over a period of just two
years. Furthermore, long-term partners such as the EU-OSHA (European Agency for Safety and
Health at Work), CineStar, the Leipzig Fair, modulbox mo systeme, Promenaden Hauptbahnhof, Sky
Deutschland and ver.di FilmUnion have stood by DOK Leipzig’s side for many years. The funders,
sponsors, partners and donors contributed substantially to the success of the festival with their
financial support, extensive material assistance and expertise. “I am exceedingly grateful to our
supporters for their continued and sustained involvement”, says Festival Director Class Danielsen.
“the development of DOK Leipzig could not have been so dynamic and impressive over the last ten
years. The success of the Festival is also their success. I hope very much they will maintain this
loyalty beyond my term of office.”
Awards
The main awards of the festival are the Golden Doves - in a total of five competitions. The Golden
Dove in the International Competition Documentary Film, which include the prize money of
10,000 Euro, have been funded by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) since last year.
The Golden Dove in the German Competition Documentary Film also comes with a cash award
of 10,000 Euro, as well as the Talent Dove of the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig in the
Young Cinema Competition to serve as seed money for a new documentary film project.
The winner of the Golden Dove in the International Competition Animation Film can look
forward to receiving 5,000 Euro, and the Silver Dove is worth 2,000 Euro. The Golden Dove for
the International Competition Short Documentary Film, sponsored by long-time supporter
TELEPOOL GmbH, awards 3,000 Euro. As of last year, a Golden Dove for the Best Animated
Documentary Film is to be awarded. This internationally unique prize is likewise worth 3,000 Euro.
This year, for the sixth time, DOK sponsor EU-OSHA awards the Healthy Workplaces Film Award
of 5,000 Euro to the best documentary film dealing with the theme of 'labour'. The prize includes
subtitling in ten European languages. The Stiftung Friedliche Revolution dedicates the Film Prize
“Leipziger Ring” to an outstanding documentary film about democracy and human rights. This prize
of 5,000 Euro will be awarded in a ceremony on the 29th of October in the Nikolaikirche (Church of
St. Nicholas). This year, the DEFA-Stiftung again offers 4,000 Euro for the DEFA Sponsoring Prize
in the German Competition Documentary Film.
Leipziger DOK-Filmwochen GmbH | Katharinenstraße 17 | 04109 Leipzig | Tel. +49 341-30864-0 | www.dok-leipzig.de
For the first time, the winner of the Documentary Film Prize of the Goethe Institute is selected not
only from productions in the German Competition Documentary Film, but also the German
productions in the International Competition Documentary Film and the Young Cinema Competition.
The prize of 2,000 Euro is connected to the subtitling of the film, as well as its inclusion in the
Goethe Institute’s distribution.
The films in the International Competition Documentary Film compete not only for the much-coveted
Golden Dove. The winner of the Prize of Vereinigte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ver.di will be
the recipient of 2,500 Euro. The Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, supported by VCH-Hotels
Deutschland GmbH of the Verband Christlicher Hoteliers e.V., including the MICHAELIS Hotel in
Leipzig, consists of an award of 2,000 Euro. For more than a decade, the MDR Film Prize, which
comes with a 3,000 Euro cash award, honors an outstanding East European documentary film.
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film takes place between the 27
October and the 2 November 2014. Over the duration of the Festival, 368 films from 62 countries will
be screened.
Questions concerning this press release?
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DOK Leipzig thanks:
DOK Partner: MaXxPrint GmbH | DOK Supporters: EU-OSHA – Europäische Agentur für Sicherheit und Gesundheitsschutz am
Arbeitsplatz, BIG Cinema GmbH, Telepool GmbH, TFD Technischer Filmdienst GmbH, nextbike GmbH, modulbox mo systeme GmbH, ils
medientechnik GmbH, IQ Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH, Leipziger Messe GmbH, PROMENADEN Hauptbahnhof Leipzig, Sky
Deutschland AG, ver.di FilmUnion | DOK IT Partner: Computer Leipzig | DOK Cinema Partner: CineStar | DOK Media Partner: MDR,
der Freitag | DOK Cooperation Partners: DEFA-Stiftung, Doc Alliance, Documentary Campus, DOK.Incubator, Goethe-Institut, MDR
Figaro, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Polnisches Institut Berlin, Filiale Leipzig, Stiftung Friedliche Revolution, Tribeca Film
Institute, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig | Cooperation Partner DOK Nachwuchs: Sächsische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk
und neue Medien | DOK Funds: Stadt Leipzig, Sächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Die Beauftragte der
Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union,
Auswärtiges Amt, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, German Films, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Medienstiftung der
Sparkasse Leipzig, SWISS FILMS, ZDF
Leipziger DOK-Filmwochen GmbH | Katharinenstraße 17 | 04109 Leipzig | Tel. +49 341-30864-0 | www.dok-leipzig.de