Founded by St.Petersburg Filmmaker’s Union festival “Beginning” is held annually at the Cinema House with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and Committee of Culture of St. Petersburg Government.
This year’s edition took place from the 1st to the 6th of October. Several dozen student films – documentary, animated as well as fiction films – from all over the world, also from Poland, appeared in the competition programme. What is more, the etudes from Polish film schools were honored with the main prizes.
Here are the Polish winners of Open Saint Petersburg Student Film Festival “Beginning”:
* Award for the Best Fiction Film:
GRANDMA HAS GONE by Tomasz Jurkiewicz (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
* Award for the Best Documentary Film:
CHARCOAL BURNERS by Piotr Zlotorowicz (Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School / PWSFTViT in Lodz)
* Diploma of the Jury for the best film program:
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (PWSFTViT) in Lodz
* Diploma of the Jury for the sharp vision:
THOUGH THE GLASS by Igor Chojna (Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School / PWSFTViT in Lodz)
* Diploma from the Seance magazine (in memory of Sergey Dobrotvorsky) – for the fruitful search of sources of the impossible:
THOUGH THE GLASS by Igor Chojna (Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School / PWSFTViT in Lodz)
More on the website: www.festival-nachalo.ru