SCENECS International Debut Film Festival

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SCENECS International Debut Film Festival, is held annually in Hilversum, the Netherlands and is produced by the SCENECS foundation.

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Festival

The festival uniquely promotes new and emerging filmmakers from around the world. It provides a platform to introduce themselves and their craft to their new audience and also to the film industry. Here, the completed films receive their first preview. The entries also participate in an international competition in the categories fiction, short fiction, documentary and student film. The winning entries in each category receive an award, shich is presented at the SCENECS Grand Gala Award Event, this ceremony wraps up the end of the festival on the last night. [1] SCENECS consist of a film festival, award ceremony, international exchange program and different activities with regards to film education and the development of talent.

History

The festival was founded in 2006 by the film maker Arya Tariverdi and organised in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. [2] It is the first film festival in the Netherlands to focus entirely on debutant filmmakers. In 2016 the festivalmoved its program and head office to the media city of Hilversum.

Festival locations

The venues of the festival are currently: VUE Hilversum, Studio 21, Film Theater Hilversum and various libraries.

Awards

Official award

This award, called "the Dutch Golden Stone Award" is in the image of a winged female form, with a golden stone in her hands. The award was designed in 2005 by Arya Tariverdi and made by the Dutch artist Ellis de Kreij.

Award categories

The Dutch Golden Stone Award is awarded during the annual Grand Gala Award Event to the directors of the categories of Best Fiction, Best Short Fiction, Best Documentary and Best Student Film. [3] In addition awards are also presented in the categories of Best Acting Talent, Audience Award and Litetime Achievement Award.

Miss SCENECS Film Festival

In 2006 the festival introduced "Miss SCENECS Film Festival". Every year a young talented woman from the entertainment and film industry is selected by the organization and awarded with this title. Her role in this title is as festival ambassador and promote its activities. Miss SCENECS Film Festival portraits the Dutch Golden Stone Award and during the award event she awards the winners. In 2017 Miss Asia Pacific International (2016), Tessa le Conge was awarded with this title.

Award Winners

SCENECS Award for Best Fiction

YearFilmDirectorCountry
2006 Zeven Zonden Naäma Palfrey Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2007Gödel Igor Kramer Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2008Brand Niels Bourgonje Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2009BingoTimur IsmailovFlag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
2010 Wing: The Fish That Talked Back Ricky Rijneke Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2011 Geen Weg Terug Shariff Korver Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2012 Atomes Arnaud Dufeys Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
2013 Silent Ones Ricky Rijneke Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2014 Bahar In Wonderland Behrooz Karamzizade Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2015 Beste Vrienden Ruwan Heggelman Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2016 Journey To The Mother Mikhail Kosyrev Nesterov Flag of France.svg  France / Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
2017 Tenderness Emilia Zielonka Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
2018 An American In Texas Anthony Pedone Flag of the United States.svg  United States

SCENECS Award for Best Short Fiction

YearFilmDirectorCountry
2016 One In Vasha Narace Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago
2017 The Wedding Patrol Rogier Hardeman Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2018 You Did Not Forget Simon Intihar Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia

SCENECS Award for Best Documentary

YearFilmDirectorCountry
2006 Vingers Op Het Glas Olaf Koelewijn & Edwin Bakker Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2007 Zo Is Dat – Het Zijn En De Aarde Elizabeth Rocha Salgado Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2008 Ypke Yasper Huizinga Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2009 Diary of a Times Square Thief Klaas Bense Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2010 Lonely Pack Justin Peach Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2011 Village Without Women Srdjan Sarenac Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina
2012 Meanwhile in Mamelodi Benjamin Kahlmeyer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2013 Odysseus Gambit Alex Lora Cercos Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
2014 North East Hard West Bart van den Aardweg Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2016 A Lizard Under the Skin Maud Neve Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
2017 Closer to Maarten Raimond Grimbergen Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2018 The Island Adam Weingrod Flag of Israel.svg  Israel

SCENECS Lifetime Achievement Award

YearDirector / Producer
2009 Jos Stelling
2010 Jean van den Velde
2011 Pieter Verhoeff
2012 Dick Maas
2013 Dave Schram & Maria Peters
2014 Hans de Wolf
2016 Steven de Jong
2017Jeroen Beker

VUE Audience Award

YearFilmDirectorCountry
2011 Lieve Anne-Marieke Anne-Marieke Graafmans Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2012 Framing the Other Willem Timmers & Ilja Kok Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2013 Onomkeerbaar Maaike Broos Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2014 Bonapetit! Anastasia Lukovnikova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
2014 Last of you Dan Sachar Flag of Israel.svg  Israel
2015 Dance Iranian style Farshad Aria Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2016 Gender Victory Len Enkhuizen Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2017 A Lifetime of Love Carilijne Pieters Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2018 Wheels of Change Jaime Prins Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands

SCENECS Talent Award

YearFilmDirectorCountry
2016 Mannenpraat Sean Musch, Manon Zwaan & Richard van der Spoel Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2017 Always Move Forward Fergus Riem Vis Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2018 Breaking Borders Barabara Vollebregt en Fatima Warsame Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands

SCENECS Award for Best Acting Talent

YearFilmDirectorCountry
2017 Spaak Tim Douwsma Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2018 The Conductor  [ nl ] Christanne de Bruijn  [ nl ]Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands

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