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www.filmfestivalostrava.com The first annual of the Ostrava Camera Eye international film festival lasted ten days (25 Sept. to 4 Oct.) and almost 100 films were screened. Six screening venues in Ostrava were used for projections and there were some screenings also at Michal Mine (Důl Michal), in the Vítkovice Ironworks complex and on the houses of Hlavní třída street in Poruba.
A number of professional film-makers visited Ostrava during the festival. The delegation representing the film “To Catch a Billionaire“ (Ulovit miliardáře) directed by Tomáš Vorel, including Marek Jícha, Director of Photography, and Tomáš Matohoha, starring, joined the gala opening. A lot of distinguished guests arrived, such as: Pavel Jech, Dean of FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, Prague), Jan Kačer, actor and director, Věra Chytilová, director, Lukáš Přibyl, the director of the documentary cycle “Forgotten Transports“ (Zapomenuté transporty), Marta Dudáková, producer, and Michael Kaboš, Director of Photography of the film “Losers“ (Zoufalci) directed by Jitka Rudolfová, and Daniela Gébová, the director of “Industrial Elegy“ (Industriální elegie). The “Hrubeš a Mareš Reloaded“ was introduced by its director Vladimír Morávek. Most of the guests introduced their films themselves and had a talk to the audience as well. Jiří Surůvka, Head of New Media Studio (Ateliér Nová média) of Faculty of Fine Arts at University of Ostrava, introduced the best of Ostrava´s videoart projection. The director Radim Filipec introduced his two short films “Fajně“ and “Den jednoho herce“, starring Michal Čapka. The film was included in competition and the screening was viewed by Čapka himself. The cinematographers who took part in the National Cinematography Competition, such as Adam Stretti, Gašper Šnuderl, Daniel Souček, Yvona Puflerová, and the director Liliana Mikhnevich were welcome as precious guests to the festival as well.
The largest delegation came to accompany the presentation and the projection of the working version of the Czech film “Dvojka“ (now in completion): the director Jaroslav Fuit, director of photography Viktor Smutný, screenwriter Richard Malatinský, producer Lenka Čintalánová and actor Jakub Wagner. The Work in Progress section included also the presentation of the Czech film “Bonds“ (Pouta) which was introduced by the Ostrava-born director Radim Špaček, the producer Vratislav Šlajer, cameraman Jaromír Kačer and screenwriter Ondřej Štindl. The working version of the film “Eye over Prague“ directed by the documentarist Olga Špátová was introduced by the producer Eliška Kaplicky Fuchsová.
The first annual of the Ostrava Camera Eye international film festival has been ceremonially closed with the revealing of the Best Cinematography National Student Competition awards. The Czech cameraman Adam Stretti, a FAMU student (Academy of Performing Arts, Prague) has won the festival prize with „Children Watching Night Trains“ (Děti sledující noční vlaky) directed by Michal Hogenauer. The photographer Dita Pepe and the director of the Ostrava Television Studio Ilja Racek together with the cinematographer Patrik Hoznauer took part in the festival as the Grand Jury members. They appreciated the creative concept of the winning film, the recency of the film and its strong emotional effect on viewers. The prize was given to Stretti by František Uldrich, a noted Czech cinematographer awarded a prize for his life work by the Association of Czech Cinematographers. The cameraman Gašper Šnuderl received the Special Mention of the Jury for “Charmers“. The closing ceremony was held at the Vesmír cinema on Saturday 4 Oct. and its viewers were able to see both the winning film “Children Watching Night Trains“ and the new film “Surrogates“ by American director Jonathan Mostow, starring Bruce Willis. The last screenings were scheduled for Sunday and took place at the former Arena.
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