We proudly present the winners of the DotFest 2010!

Serdar Koçak - award winner for category "Best Animation".

"In my point of view, the online festival better than the other fest. Because, you do not have to do bored things like sending DVD. I am a student and I can not do that everytime:) because of cost of cargo".
 
Read full interview here: http://dotfest.net/pages/serdar_interview

Peter Vadocz - award winner for category "The Audience Award".

"I am a human being. This is a most important thing. My turn is to explore the little parts of our World, and show it to the other people in my way. If you can pay your attention to the really important things, by this, you can understand better and better thewonderful process: how the life goes. If you are ready and able to do this, doesn’t really matter, you are an artist or not".
 
Read full interview here: http://dotfest.net/pages/peter_interview

We proudly present the winners of the DotFest 2010!

Diego Rampelini - award winner for category "Best Music Video".
"All my life I was fan of music, when I was a kid I enjoyed drawing and watching horror movies till I dropped. As a teenager I couldn’t stop watching videoclips, so I guess all these had a mayor influence in what I do now".
Read full interview here:http://dotfest.net/pages/diego_interview

Chema Garcia Ibarra - award winner for category "Best Fiction".
"No expectations! Just have my short film there and show it to everyone. The award was completely unexpected".
Read full interview here:http://dotfest.net/pages/chema_interview

DotFest 2010 Short Film Festival Winners

We proudly present the winners of the DotFest 2010!

Thorsten Fleisch - award winner for category "Best Experimental".

"I've been making experimental films for more than a decade now.
Having zero budget to work with but then having this convulsive urge to do films anyway. Also I am always curious about things and this often directs me to potentially interesting themes for a film".

Read full interview here.

Awards

Dear friends!
We've finished all the voting and here are the results:
BEST FICTION: "The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5" by Chema Garcia Ibarra.
BEST ANIMATION: "Balance" by Serdar Koçak.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO: "The Last Defeat" by Diego Rampelini.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL: "Energy!" by Thorsten Fleisch.
THE AUDIENCE AWARD was shared by "The Painter of the Skies” by Jorge Morais Valle and “Rhodes Experimental” by Peter Vadocz.
Congratulations to all the winners!

There is online DotFest Jury chat online right now!

There is online DotFest Jury chat online right now! Join us http://www.dotfest.net/voting/

Let's vote

Dear friends, we are ready to announce the exact time of the online jury chat!
We open the doors and start the show at 20-00 CET (which is 14-00 ЕDT if you are in the US) on April 18th.
Come and check — it'll be a great fun!

Interview with Nag Vladermersky

We've had a great talk with our jury member Nag Vladermersky recently which we've published here. Enjoy!

The last, but not the least

Finally, we have the fourth judge on our list. This wonderful person is named Andre Werner. An artist, filmmaker, writer, translator, curator, festival director... this list can go on and on. The things you should know is that he has a good taste for hats, cats and films. So, please, welcome Andre!
And we'll publish the film in all four competitions and start the voting process in 2 days! Get yourself ready!!!

Film of the Week #4

And here's the final Film of the Week. This time it's animation. A portugues movie "Perfect" by Mauricio Bartok. Enjoy!

The interview

Jonas Mekas, our jury member, has spent some great time with us chatting. The interview with him is a result. Check it out here!

Film of the Week #3

Here's the third Film of the Week we have for you. It comes from Spain, it's called "Marisa", it's directed by Nacho Vigalondo and it's a very interesting piece of fiction.

Film of the Week#2

And here we go with the second Film of the Week! Now let's take on the Music Video section of the festival and a work by Ilya Kolesnikov called "Sleepwalking" made for Everything is Made in China.

Film of the Week #1

As promised — here's the first Film of the Week. A brilliant experimental short by Thorsten Fleisch called "Energy!".
Next week we'll give you a sneak peek of the music video section.

 

Extended Deadline

Like every decent film festival we get a lot of entries closer to the deadline. So, to give everyone a chance to submit — we extend the deadline till March 15th.

Film of the Week

Dear friends!
Each week starting March 1st we will present you a film already selected to the competition. So there will be 4 films in 4 weeks in 4 categories.
The first one will be published on Monday.
 

Montage

New name on the jury list: Jean-Gabriel Periot.
French director who has found his unique place somewhere between documentary, found footage, animation and experimental film. After screening his own works all over the world he will now judge yours
 

Moving Pictures

Another great person on our jury list is Nag Vladermersky.
being a big lover of the animation, Nag is a person behind the London International Animation Festival and co-director of the Melbourne International Animation Festival.
Don't miss the full info on him and Jonas Mekas in our Jury section.

The Legend

We are very happy to announce our first jury member.
Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American avant-garde cinema, honoured us by agreeing to take part in watching and judging the films in the competition.
More names and info to come in days.

Early Birds

Dear friends!
For the past couple of weeks we've received an impressive number of entries. If you are eager to increase this amount and add you two cents to the festival — submit your films as there's still a month to go with the entries.
The ones that will make it into the competition would be unveiled soon during the Film of the Week.
More details to come.