With a growing list of international correspondents the international competitive event for TV programming and the TV market FIPATEL supported by CNC and MEDIA is one of the most important in Europe for the TV industry with nearly 1300 participants present. It is also one of the only chances for independent TV producers and commissioning editors to see their work projected on a big screen with a live audience present.
This year for the first time a TV film from Bulgaria was in competition, the Golden Rose Prize winner No1 directed by Atanas Hristoskov and produced by Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg) as FIPA continues to reach out to its neighbours.
Teresa Cavina in her third year as FIPA artistic director told FNE said: "FIPA is a pathfinder with a mission to look at the state of creation in European television. The difference between cinema and TV today has become much less than it used to be. The main difference is that cinema is a shared experience with an audience, technically there is very little difference between TV and cinema." This year works created for the web was a competitive category for the first time.
The growing emphasis on coproductions in TV was reflected in the 6 edition of the FIPA coproduction pitching sessions. From more than 300 projects in development submitted the producers of 12 docs and two fiction series were selected to attend a training workshop and then to have the chance to pitch their projects to top European TV commissioning editors. Martine Scoupe head of the FIPA two day coproduction event told FNE: "About 25 to 40 % of the projects end up finding partners and getting produced so it is a very good rate of success." The coproduction section is open to all countries and this year Hungarian producer Judit Stalter from Lackoon Film (http://www.lackoonfilm.com/) was able to pitch
her new project Besence Open in Biarritz.
Jean Michel Ausseil, Secretaire General of FIPA who has been with FIPA since its inception told FNE: "FIPA is about convincing TV professionals and audiences that television productions can be as interesting as film. We believe that audiences can be offered anything provided you dare to present audiences with works which daring, creative, which are totally different than what they are used to seeing. Works that are different from what TV audiences are used to seeing in their own countries. We give television professionals the chance to see their work with an audience. We challenge professionals that if they dare to produce quality television that is different the audience will accept it."
FIPA is a bastion of quality European television production and hosts competitions in the categories of One Off Drama, Series, Creative Documentaries, Reportages, Performing Arts and Web Creations. Here are this year's FIPA prize winners.
AWARDS LISTS: One Off- Drama
FIPA D'OR Grand Prize: Les
Cinq parties du monde
by Gérard Mordillat
Screenplay: Gérard Mordillat
Production: Archipel 33
Co-Production: Arte France
(France)
FIPA D'ARGENT Special Prize: Entre
Nosotros
by Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito
Screenplay: Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito
Production: Ijswater Films
Co-Productions: VPRO, Vara Broadcasting Cooperation
(Netherlands)
FIPA D'OR
Grand Prize
for best actress: Silke Bodenbender for the role of "Esther
Wesnik" in Vater,
Mutter, Mörder written and directed by Niki Stein
Production: Studio Hamburg Fernseh Allianz
(Germany)
FIPA D'OR
Grand prize for best actor: Léo Paul Salmain for the role of
"Guy Môquet" in La Mer
à l'aube written and directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Production: Les Canards sauvages
Co-Production: Arte France, Provobis Films, 7e Apache Films
(France)
FIPA D'OR
Grand prize
for best screenplay: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Antoine
Lacomblez for La Disparition
by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Production: Maha Productions
With the participation of France 2
(France)
FIPA D'OR
Grand Prize for
best original soundtrack: Thomas Enhco for Les
Cinq parties du monde by Gérard Mordillat
Production: Archipel 33
Co-Production: Arte France
(France)
AWARDS LISTS
FIPA D'OR Grand Prize: Kaboul
Kitchen
by Frédéric Berthe, Jean-Patrick Benes, Allan Mauduit
Screenplay: Allan Mauduit, Marc Victor, Jean-Patrick Benes
Production: Scarlett Production
Co-Production: Euromedia France, Chic Films
(France)
FIPA D'ARGENT
Special Prize: Operacion
Jaque
by Silvia Quer Sabaté
Screenplay: Helena Medina
Production: Pentagrama Films
(Spain)
FIPA D'OR
Grand Prize
for best actress: Nathalie Baye for the role of "Anne
Visage" in Les
Hommes de l'ombre by Frédéric Tellier
Screenplay: Dan Franck and Régis Lefebvre
Production: Macondo
Co-Production: Tetra Media Fiction
With the participation of France 2
(France)
FIPA D'OR
Grand prize for best actor: Richy Müller for the role of
"Alfred Walch" in Vermisst
- Alexandra Walch, 17 by Andreas Prochaska
Screenplay: Agnes Pluch and Andreas Prochaska
Production: MR-Film
(Austria)
FIPA D'OR
Grand prize
for best screenplay: Allan Mauduit, Marc Victor, and Jean-Patrick
Benes for Kaboul
Kitchen by Frédéric Berthe, Jean-Patrick Benes and Allan Mauduit
Production: Scarlett Production
Co-Production: Euromedia France, Chic Films
(France)
FIPA D'OR
Grand Prize for
best original soundtrack: Patrik Andren, Uno Helmersson and Johan
Söderqvist for Bron by Lisa
Siwe and Henrik Georgsson
Screenplay: Hans Rosenfeldt
Production: Filmlance International AB
Co-Production: SVT
(Sweden)
Creative Documentaries
AWARDS LISTS
FIPA D'OR Grand Prize: L'Île
déserte
by Steve Thielemans
Production: Inti Films
(Belgium)
FIPA D'ARGENT
Special Prize: The
Kingdom of Mr. Edhi
by Amélie Saillez
Production: 43 Films
Co-Production: Lastor Media, Mundis Production, TVE-Catalunya
(Belgium, Spain)
SPECIAL MENTION: Les
fils de la terre
by Edouard Bergeon
Production: Sable Rouge
Co-Production: Magneto Presse
(France)
Reportages
AWARDS LISTS
FIPA D'OR Grand Prize: B'nei
Dodim La'Neshek
by Naomi Levari
Production: Black Sheep Film Productions
(Israel)
FIPA D'ARGENT
Special Prize: Sous
surveillance
by Didier Cros
Production: Ladybirds Films
Co-Production: CFRT
With the participation of France 2
(France)
AWARDS LISTS: Performing Arts
FIPA D'OR Grand Prize: El
Cuaderno de barro
by Isaki Lacuesta
Production: Tusitala
Co-Production: TVE
(Spain)
FIPA D'ARGENT
Special Prize: 1,2,3 Dance
by Julien Ringdahl
Production: December Films
Co-Production: Danish Broadcasting Corporation
(Denmark)
Web Creations
AWARDS LISTS
FIPA D'OR Grand Prize: Code
Barre
by Pascal Brouard
Production: Office National du Film du Canada
Co-Production: Arte France
(Canada, France)
SPECIAL MENTION: 17 10 61
by Raspouteam
Production: Agat Films & Cie
Co-Production: Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
(France)
MITRANI PRIZE 2012
In the category "Aspects of European Production":
Grande
Hotel
by Lotte Stoops
Production: Serendipity Films
(Belgium)
