After a week that saw air travel worldwide grounded by the coronavirus pandemic and a powerful earthquake strike the Croatian capital, the organizers of ZagrebDox Pro had something to celebrate on …
had something to celebrate on Tuesday, as the annual workshop and pitching competition announced the awards from its first ever online edition.
Pasanen, who is director of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna and former managing and artistic director of DOK Leipzig, joined director and producer Tealdi to lead a four-day intensive training program for 12 documentary projects in different stages of development and production. The selections, which came from 11 countries, took part in a Pitching Forum before the awards were handed out.
The HBO Europe Award went to the Hungarian project “Queen of Chess,” by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, which tells the story of the relationship between Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, and Garry Kasparov, the veteran who believed that a woman and a man couldn’t compete against one another.
The Al Jazeera Balkans Award was given to Marko Kumer Murč, director of “The Other Side of the Pipe,” which was presented by Kumer Murč, screenwriter Eric Moses and producer Katja Lihtenvalner. The Slovenian project depicts what happens when abuse of power turns out to be a pipeline’s biggest export and when ordinary people fight tooth and nail to hold Europe to its values. The project was awarded €1,000 for further development.
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