The awards of the 8th Cultural Film Festival, which presents the people who continue to live on the values of Hungarian culture in the local Hungarian communities of the Carpathian Basin and the Diaspora, were presented on Saturday evening in Tálya. The grand prize of one million forints and the ceramics of Judit Józsa was won by the film Patronus of the Csibészek, whose creators were Tekla Magyari and Csaba Simó. As jury member Tamás Kollarik told our newspaper, several of the films in the competition and the ones awarded have already achieved good ratings on the Internet.
At the closing ceremony, László Kövér, the main patron of the festival and the President of the Parliament, said in his speech:
Since 2010, the Hungarian state has wanted to provide equal financial opportunities in film production to those creators who are able to achieve with "Hungarian eyes, heart, mind and talent" that the idea and the film that emerges from it do not belong only to others, but - more than forty years of communism and twenty years after post-communism - "finally ours".
Heaven, God expects man to take the first step, and if you have taken the first step, he will add the ninety-nine - said Gergely István "Tiszti", the head of the Csibész Foundation, in the film Patronus of the Csibészek, whose creators won the grand prize and the ceramics of Józsa Judit. The documentary reveals that the foundation's orphanages care for the upbringing of more than a hundred children with a difficult fate, pave the way for young adults who have grown out of the child protection system, and provide homes for abused women and mothers of daughters. In the film, the creators followed István Gergely, the thirty-year-old head of the Csibész Foundation in Csíksomlyo, for an entire day.
At the 8th Cultural Film Festival, portrait films that present the people who continue to live the values of Hungarian culture in the local Hungarian communities of the Carpathian Basin and the Diaspora competed.
This festival is one of the most exciting Hungarian film events - producer Tamás Kollarik told our newspaper, who was a jury member at the festival alongside film director Gábor Koltay, president of the jury, film director Sándor Buglya, and Réka Kozári, MTVA's special editor. He added that Attila Bolyáki has been organizing an increasingly serious film festival and conference every year with dedicated work for almost a decade. As he said, according to the competition notice, the films must be shot in Hungary, the Carpathian Basin and other areas of the world inhabited by Hungarians.
László Kövér and Zsófia Koncz present the main prize/Source: Facebook
We were able to evaluate many fantastic works with my fellow judges, and we got to know very talented artists from Hungary and beyond.
Several of the films included in the competition and awarded have already achieved good ratings, not only in the magazine programs of the public media or domestic televisions, but also on the Internet, because the 330-second format provides wide distribution opportunities in this world. I hope that with the help of the festival even more people will be able to get to know these great films and that the creators will also receive more attention - added Tamás Kollarik. At the festival this year Gábor Koltay and Tamás Kollarik gave lectures on the great Hungarian producers Jenő Janovics and István Nemeskürty, among others.
László Kövér believed that a chance should be given to those creators who are able to give a universal message and value to the cinematic manifestations of the Hungarian character. This is the essence and purpose of the national cultural policy and national film production - emphasized László Kövér.
The President of the National Assembly reminded: a lot has happened in the past ten years, the film industry has made serious efforts, and it has been proven once again that only quality, only value, and only work done at a good standard matters.
At this festival, everyone could experience what can be said about our life and destiny in five minutes, and we could see how many people and many professions hold together the communities that make up the fabric of the culturally and spiritually united Hungarian nation, said László Kövér.
The audience could first evaluate the competition films that elaborated local Hungarian culture and were shot in Hungary, the Carpathian Basin and the Hungarian-populated areas of the world, and the jury headed by filmmaker Gábor Koltay gave their opinion on the best works at the final of the festival. Among the twenty-four short films that can also be viewed online, two works generated the most viewer activity: the creators of Alföld TV's A Puszta váráza, A csíkós apáról fúiraa film received six hundred thousand HUF, while the three Southern Region creators of the short film Antika received a special award of HUF five hundred thousand.
Source and full article: Magyar Nemzet
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