Dok Leipzig

The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film ( DOK Leipzig) is an annual that takes place in Leipzig since 1955 Two divisions Film Festival. In the two competition categories International Documentary, International Animated Film will be awarded as grand prizes, the Golden and Silver Dove. Main prizes of the competitions German documentary and Generation DOK - International competition for young documentary are the Zweitausendeins Film Award and the Talent Dove. For the anniversary Festival 2007 prize money totaling € 58,500 were awarded. Since 2004 there is also an extensive with DOK Industry internationally oriented sector offering that is becoming increasingly important. 2007 was attended by around 31,000 spectators the festival.

  • 2.1 competition
  • 2.2 retrospective

History

The initiative for the first all-German Leipzig Week for Cultural and Documentary in 1955 goes back to the club of filmmakers the GDR. Director of the first independent and all-German Festival of East Germany was Walter Kernicke. Because of conception disputes in the period between 1957 and 1959, the Film Week did not take place. With the resumption and new design in 1960, the festival began to establish himself in the documentary landscape. In 1961, the first international festival took place and the following year the Golden and Silver Dove were introduced as main prizes. The pigeons were based on a design by Pablo Picasso, the latter had originally made ​​for the Paris Peace Conference in 1947. The French author Vladimir Pozner was commissioned on the recommendation of the honorary presidency of the Directorate of the festival, check with his friend Picasso, whether his pigeon in the medals are awarded for the great prizes of the festival, is likely to be engraved. As a symbol of the Festival of design until 2004 was also present in the logo. In 1964, Wolfgang rake Thal new director. The first serious political conflicts, there were 1968 with the crushing of the Prague Spring. Although some socially critical films were allowed to be shown in the program, films on the theme " Czechoslovakia ", however, were excluded from the performance. From 1971 onwards, the interference by the public authorities of the GDR increased significantly in the program design.

1973, with the ratification of the Master Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, the Committee of the International Leipzig Week for Documentary and Short Film founded. First President was Annelie Thorndike, Vice remained until 1983 Karl- Eduard von Schnitzler. The political influence on contributions to the festival continued to grow, there were cuts and text changes enforced, the quality of the contributions decreased as increasingly long movies and television reports were presented instead of artistic quality documentary art. From the selection committee and the press especially the " self- nomination " principle has been criticized to 1981; from the Union Republics of the Soviet Union met mostly very short film packages, which were partly shown, without having seen them before. In 1987, the first films were shown to perestroika, ARD and ZDF were official participants of the festival. 1988 Soviet films were self- censored by the GDR Ministry of Culture, the discussions were abolished. With the turn of 1989, the committee resigned. However, the festival was supported by the provisions of the Unification Treaty.

Under festival director Christiane Mückenberger (1990-1993) there were a few innovations: In 1991, as the new organizers the Dok - Filmwochen GmbH of Leipzig as well as a new motto " films in the world for human dignity " is introduced. The event series " DOK -between " was held for the first time and in collaboration with the Film School Leipzig the Youth Jury Prize was first awarded. In 1993, Otto Alder, the program section " Animation ".

1994 took over from the journalist and filmmaker Fred Gehler Christiane Mückenberger. He remained until 2003 director of the festival. A year after his arrival, an independent competition will be conducted for the animated film for the first time. Under a new slogan ( "Dialog " myth ), the Golden Dove was first awarded in 1997 for a life's work: to the Argentine Fernando Birri Regis euro and Santiago Álvarez from Cuba. The first " night of the young films", an event with movies, music, literature and parties took place in 1998. 2000 organized by the association " TV makes you beautiful eV" within this event for the first time as the "Shocking Local Short Night Shuffle", a local short film competition.

Claas Danielsen, filmmaker and director of studies in 2004, the new director. He introduced the training program for young documentary filmmaker, Discovery Campus eV and including the competition for the German documentary. He also established the industry gathering DOK Industry and a new motto: "the heART of documentary ." The prize money will increase to a total of 47,500 euros to the award of the "Funding Award of the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig ". In 2005, the festival got the new short title DOK Leipzig. The following year there was the first time the " DOK Market Digital". The anniversary edition in 2007 brought a new attendance record: Nearly 31,000 people attended the festival.

Name of the festival

1957-1959 was the festival on different grounds does not take

DOK Leipzig

Competition

Prices International Documentary, International Animation Film, Documentary and German since 2007 Generation DOK be in the categories - International Young Talent Competition awarded documentary.

The main prizes are since 1962 the Golden and Silver Dove, which are made of Meissen porcelain especially for the festival. Awarded they are by the International Jury for Documentary Film and the International Jury for Animated Film and the German Jury for Documentary Film. The International Jury for young documentary awards the Talent Dove.

More prices:

International Competition Documentary

  • Golden Dove (over 45 min) endowed with 10,000 euros of TELEPOOL
  • Golden Dove (up to 45 min) worth 5,000 euros
  • Silver Dove (over 45 min) endowed with 3,000 euros
  • MDR Film Prize ( for an excellent Eastern European documentary ) endowed with 3,000 euros
  • Price of the service society Verdi endowed with 1,500 euros
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

International Competition Animated Film

  • Golden Dove endowed with 5,000 euros
  • Silver Dove endowed with 2,000 euros
  • Prize for the best German animated film worth 3,000 euros of Saturn Leipzig
  • Mephisto 97.6 Audience Award

German Competition Documentary

  • Golden Dove endowed with 10,000 euros
  • Prize of the DEFA -Stiftung ( scholarship) in the amount of 4,000 euros
  • Healthy Workplaces Film Award endowed with 8,000 euros by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU -OSHA)
  • Price of FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique )
  • Youth Jury Prize of the Film School Leipzig eV

Retrospective

The compilation of retrospectives took place from 1960 to 1989 in collaboration with the National Film Archive of the GDR. Since 1990, this task is taken over by the Federal Archive Film Archive in Berlin.

DOK Industry

With DOK Industry trade visitors are presented with a wide range industry since 2004 during the festival week. With a completely digitized DOK Market, the International Co-Production Meeting, the DOK Summit panel discussions and the Leipzig Masters - Forum Innovative documentary television is given to the participants in addition to a platform for discussion the possibility for exchange and cooperation. 2007 was attended by over 1,450 trade visitors.

Staatliches Filmarchiv der DDR Alberto Cavalcanti Joris Ivens Robert J. Flaherty Chile Karl Gass Erwin Leiser Peter Schamoni
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