Cameraimage 2021 - Roundup

This year’s Camerimage finished on Saturday 20 November and was very successful – well done all the Camerimage team in Torun!

The gala closing film was NO TIME TO DIE and was introduced by director Cary Joji Fukunaga with DoP Linus Sandgren

The list of winners included:

• The Golden Frog - C’MON C’MON – DoP Robbie Ryan; Director Mike Mills

• The Silver Frog – THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH – DoP Bruno Delbonnel; Director Joel Coen

• The Bronze Frog – DUNE – DoP Greig Fraser; Director Denis Villeneuve

• Audience Award – C’MON C’MON

• FIPRESCI Prize – ANIMALS – DoP Frank van den Eeden; Director Nabil Ben Yadir

• Polish Film – OPERATION HYACINTH – DoP Piotr Sobocinski Jt; Director Piotr Domalewski

• Director debut – TITANE – DoP Ruben Impens; Director Julia Ducournau

• Cinematographer debut – BIPOLAR – DoP Yuming Ke; Director Queena Li

• Music Video – ZDECHLAM – DoP Kacper Fertacz; Director Zuzanna Plisz

• TV Series – WELCOME TO UTMARK: EYE FOR AN EYE – DoP Andreas Johannessen; Director Dagur Kari

• Documentary feature – MY VOICE WILL BE WITH YOU – DoP Tristan Galand; Director Bruno Tracq

• Documentary short – SURVIVE – DoP Jacob Friedrich Maria Kohl; Directors Lara Milena Brose, Kilian Armando Friedrich

• Laszlo Kovacs Award – Golden Tadpole – THE HOWLING – DoP Max Bugajak; Director Bartosz Brzezinski, Warsaw Film School

• Silver Tadpole – TALA’VISION – DoP Philip Henze; Director Murad Abu Eisheh, Filmakademic Baden-Wurttemberg

• Bronze Tadpole – COLD BLOW LANE – DoP Christopher Behrman; Director Luca Homolka, Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg

Patron VMI wins National Climate Award

Together For Our Planet campaign announces Bristol and London’s award-winning green small business.

VMI.TV, Bristol and London-based camera rental company, crowned Hero of Net Zero at COP26 awards ceremony.

Small business celebrated for original and creative actions taken to cut their own greenhouse gas emissions.

The company urges other businesses to commit to net zero at UK Climate Hub.

Camera rental company VMI.TV has been crowned winner of the Heroes of Net Zero competition yesterday at a special awards ceremony hosted by Intuit at the COP26 international climate change summit in Glasgow.

More than 160 businesses entered the competition, making a commitment at the UK Business Climate Hub to achieve net zero by 2030, 20 years ahead of the Government’s own climate commitment.

The rental firm, based in Acton, London and St George, Bristol won in the small business category by demonstrating a range of measures taken on their journey to net zero, including installing solar panels and insulation, purchasing electric vans and recycling and reusing, sending no waste to landfill in 15 months.

They won an exclusive prize package worth over £4,500 from competition partners BT, NatWest and SSE.

Barry Bassett, Managing Director, VMI.TV said:

“We are incredibly flattered and really pleased that our efforts are being recognised, as this will spread the word more widely about the benefits of companies making decarbonising efforts.”

Full details here: https://vmi.tv/blog/news/vmi-wins-national-climate-award/

Who Needs Sleep? - Documentary by Haskell Wexler

A documentary that highlights the deadly combination of sleep deprivation and long days of work. Focusing in particular in the film industry's. Unsettled by the preventable death of a coworker, filmmaker Haskell Wexler learns that sleep deprivation and long work hours are a deadly combination. Interweaving medical findings with personal accounts, his camera reveals how a 24/7 work culture affects all Americans.