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Festival 2007 | Award winners |
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Art documentary |
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Title: Young@Heart |
Submitting Party: Walker George Films Ltd
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Production: Walker George Films Ltd
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| Distribution/Broadcaster: Channel 4 International |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
Billed as pensioners behaving badly, Young@Heart is a chorus like no other. With an average age of 80, their renditions of songs from bands like Coldplay, Hendrix and The Clash have won terrific reviews.The film follows chorus members as they prepare a new show, including 93 year old Eileen, who sings a wicked version of Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The result is a moving and often hilarious portrait of an extraordinary group of people who may be old in body but refuse to grow old in spirit. |
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Comedy |
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Title: The Vicar of Dibley |
| Submitting Party: Tiger Aspect Productions |
| Production: Tiger Aspect Productions |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: BBC 1 |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
'The Vicar of Dibley' finally comes to a close with two special-length episodes, the first aired on Christmas day on BBC1. The village is up in arms at the arrival of a newcomer in their midst a 'weekender' from London who clearly won't want to get involved in the community. Geraldine decides to pay him a visit and give him a piece of her mind, but instead comes away completely smitten. As he and Geraldine try to conduct their courtship in private, the villagers have other ideas. |
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Performing arts |
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Title: Peter and the Wolf |
| Submitting Party: Channel 4 |
| Production: Breakthru Films |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Channel 4 |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
A new animated film version of Prokofiev's timeless children's classic, Peter and the Wolf to mark the 70th anniversary of the work. It is set to a new recording by the world-renowned Philharmonia Orchestra. Together they bring this mesmerising work, loved by over five generations of children, to the screen. |
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Performing arts: special mention |
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| Title: Car men |
| Submitting Party: Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) |
| Production: Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) |
| Country: Netherlands |
Summary:
Choreographer Jirí Kylián and director Boris Paval Conen made a black-and-white film together with 4 dancers in a coalmine in the Czech Republic. CAR MEN is a story of young people vivacious, bursting with ambition, love and hate. The film is a metaphor for time, speed, stillness, movement, youth and age. Han Otten arranged Bizet's music and added extra music specially composed for the film. The key prop in the film is a 'scrap car' reminiscent of the futurist Czech Tatra of the 1930s. |
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Reality |
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Title: Secret Millionaire |
| Submitting Party: Channel 4 |
| Production: RDF MEDIA |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Channel 4 |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
Each week a different multi-millionaire searches for people whose lives can be changed for the better guaranteeing to give away thousands of pounds of their own money. For 10 days, they leave their wealthy lifestyle behind to live undercover in some of the UK's toughest areas immersing themselves in communities aiming to find those people that they think deserve their help. On the last day of their visit, they reveal their secret and write their cheques. |
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Reality: special mention |
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| Title: My Last Words |
| Submitting Party: Palm Plus Productions |
| Production: Palm Plus Productions |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: EO, Nederland 2 |
| Country: Netherlands |
Summary:
In My Last Words we follow a terminally ill people in the final weeks of their life, as they bid friends and family farewell. A few weeks after they have passed away, we will visit the relatives with a video letter that has been recorded before the person's death. My Last Words is being made with all due care and integrity. This is a programme that will truly touch the viewer to the core. |
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Show |
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Title: The Pyramid |
| Submitting Party: Castor Multimedia |
| Production: Castor Multimedia |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Croatian Television - HRT |
| Country: Croatia |
Summary:
THE PYRAMID is a game-talk show with a competitive structure and strict rules that provide 3 public figures with equal opportunities of vying for viewer votes through being original in treatment of 5 top issues of the week.
Three participants are public figures from various areas of public life,
Five top events of the week are selected from various areas of public life.
During the live broadcast of the show, viewers vote for their favorite and their votes decide the winner! |
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Sitcom |
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Title: Not Going Out |
| Submitting Party: Avalon Television Limited |
| Production: Avalon Television Limited |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: BBC 1 |
| Country: United Kingdom |
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Not Going Out is a BBC 1 sitcom co-written by BAFTA winning comic LEE MACK and Sony Award winning writer/broadcaster ANDREW COLLINS. It centres on flatmates Lee and Kate, whose friendship is moving into uncharted waters - a situation complicated by the fact Lee 's best mate, is Kate's ex. Signalling a return to the traditional comedy format with its high volume of gags, the show was described as most laugh-aloud comedies on screen in aeons (Mail on Sunday) and immediately recommissioned. |
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Soap |
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Title: Con Passionate |
| Submitting Party: S4C |
| Production: Teledu Apollo |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: S4C |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
A blend of a traditional male voice choir coupled with a steamy screen siren of a conductor after whom most of the male cast lust proved to be a winning formula as we delved ever deeper into the broken psyche and fragile lives of this community. Powerful performances and a humorous inclusion of CGI fantasy sequences kept the balance between the darker side of life and the frothiness of passion. |
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Soap: special mention |
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| Title: Home Affairs |
| Submitting Party: Penguin Films |
| Production: Penguin Films |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: SABC |
| Country: South Africa |
Summary:
Humankind has always been fascinated about how everything is actually connected, about synchronicity and about how we don't always understand why things are happening at the time, but how it all fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. Each part being necessary to makeup the whole. This is what Home Affairs is about. The acclaimed series Home Affairs looks at the lives of six South African women in separate universes who are all connected. |
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Best of 2007 special prize |
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Title: Young@Heart |
Submitting Party: Walker George Films Ltd
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Production: Walker George Films Ltd
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| Distribution/Broadcaster: Channel 4 International |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
Billed as pensioners behaving badly, Young@Heart is a chorus like no other. With an average age of 80, their renditions of songs from bands like Coldplay, Hendrix and The Clash have won terrific reviews.The film follows chorus members as they prepare a new show, including 93 year old Eileen, who sings a wicked version of Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The result is a moving and often hilarious portrait of an extraordinary group of people who may be old in body but refuse to grow old in spirit. |
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Opera special prize |
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Title: Man on the moon |
| Submitting Party: Channel 4 |
| Production: Tiger Aspect Productions |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Channel 4 |
| Country: United Kingdom |
Summary:
Man on the Moon is a brand new hour-long television opera based on the first moon landing in 1969. With music by renowned British composer Jonathan Dove and words by Nicholas Wright, this is a film about the lunar mission, but at its heart it is about the surreal nature of the triumph and the disillusionment that followed. Starring opera singers Patricia Racette and Nathan Gunn in the title roles as Joan and Buzz Aldrin, Man on the Moon reunites Jonathan Dove with director Rupert Edwards. |
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Opera special prize: Special mention |
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| Title: Mozart 22 - Le Nozze di Figaro |
| Submitting Party: Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images |
| Production: Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images |
| Distribution/Broadcaster: Unitel GmbH & Co KG / Classica GmbH |
| Country: Germany |
Summary:
Bernhard Fleischer – Mozart 22: The Complete Stagework Collection from the Salzburg Festival 2006
In the summer of 2006, the Salzburg Festival presented a project on a grand scale: To commemorate Mozart's 250th birthday, all 22 operas by Mozart were incorporated into the Salzburg Festival programme, thus making that season a record summer. Never before had there been so many productions and performances in a festival season and never before did so many visitors come to Salzburg. |
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