The international jury, Olena Babij, Jacek Dehnel, Mamadou Diouf, and Gabriel M. Paletz, awarded the following films:
Grand Prix of The Art of Document: STOLEN
Director: Violeta Ayala & Dan Falshow
Producer: Tom Zubricki
Australia, 2007, 77'
for discovering and persistence in documenting an unknown subject and for showing the various depths of freedom.
1st Award of The Future of Media: THEMERSON & THEMERSON
Director: Wiktoria Szymańska
Producer: Wiktoria Szymańska
UK/ Poland, 2010, 52'
for taking inspiration from its subjects to show, despite the vicissitudes of war, exile, and indifference, the joys in creative freedom.
2nd Award of The Future of Media: FIGHTING CHOLITA
Director: Małgorzata Łupina
Producer: Małgorzata Łupina
Poland, 2010, 27'
for the presentation of a woman's courageous and creative choice in search of a dignified life
Three honorary mentions (in no particular order):
A BLOOMING BUSINESS
Director: Ton van Zantvoort
Producer: Ton van Zantvoort
Netherlands, 2009, 52'
for letting its subjects talk about the high price of cultivation of beauty.
ALJOSHA
Director: Meelis Muhu
Producer: Meelis Muhu
Estonia, 2008, 67'
for showing how one symbol that embodies the conflicting meanings of freedom can tear a nation apart.
GHETTO JIMENEM BALUTY
Director: Pavel Stingl
Producer: Ondřej Zima
Czech Republic / Poland, 2009, 87'
for showing how the wartime degradation of a place haunts its contemporary constrains of poverty.
AUDIENCE AWARD:
A BLOOMING BUSINESS
Director: Ton van Zantvoort
Producer: Ton van Zantvoort
Netherlands, 2009, 52'
