Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival

The Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival is a space for celebrating, discovering and analysing the form of cinema generically grouped under the heading of documentary. It is held annually in Pamplona, Spain, in February, and is organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Regional Government of Navarre.

Punto de Vista paid tribute to Jean Vigo, the director of Zero de Conduite, on the centenary of his birth in 2005. , film critic and daughter of Vigo and , attended that year. The festival provided an opportunity to look back on Vigo’s entire filmography and also represented the first step in a relationship which has now fructified in the form of this award.

The Festival took its name, Punto de Vista (Point of View), as a tribute to Vigo, the first director to refer, back in the 1930s, to a “documented point of view” as a distinctive sign of a form of filmmaking which commits the filmmaker.

Prix Jean Vigo for the best director[]

The Prix Jean Vigo aims to strengthen both the spirit which inspired the festival in the first place and its commitment to the work of Jean Vigo. The creation of this prize has been made possible thanks to the close ties between Punto de Vista and the family of the great French filmmaker.

This is the first prize in Spain associated with the memory of the director of L'Atalante, but in France, the Prix Jean Vigo is closely related to some of the best filmmaking of the last 50 years. The Prix Jean Vigo was created in France in 1951 as a means of promoting young filmmakers with the greatest prospects. Figures such as Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Claude Chabrol and Jean-Luc Godard can all be named among its winners.

Results[]

2005[]

• “Point-of-View” First Prize for the best film: , by Yoav Shamir (Israel).
• Prize for the Best Short Film: Good Times, by and (Italia-Israel).
• Prize for the Best Director: , for “” (Slovakia).
• Prize for the Best Screenplay: “Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary”, by Arturo Pérez Torres (Canada).
• Audience’s Special Prize: “Bandits”, by Zaza Rusadze (Georgia).
• Special mentions: “”/Chatting”, by (Spain), and “”, by and (Belgium).

2006[]

• PUNTO DE VISTA PRIZE for the best documentary, exaequo, to Sonia, by and , by .
• PRIZE FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR (3,500 €) to for .
• BEST SHORT FILM (4,000 €) to by .
• SPECIAL MENTIONS (1,000 €):
  • , by .
  • Phantom Limb, by .
  • , by .
• AUDIENCE’S SPECIAL PRIZE (2,500 €): , by Pelin Esmer

2007[]

• Punto de Vista First Prize: by Heddy Honigmann
• Prize for the Best Director: by
• Prize for the Best Short Film: by Jean-Gabriel Périot
• The Audience’s Prize: by
• Special mention:
  • by
  • Orange Winter by Andrei Zagdansky

2008[]

• Punto de Vista First Prize: Bingai by Feng Yan
• Prize for the Best Director: by
• Prize for the Best Short Film: by
• The Audience’s Prize: Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead by Stuart Urban
• Special mention:
  • by
  • A Story of People in War and Peace by Vardan Hovhannisyan

Sources[]

• Official Site
• Noticia del Premio Jean Vigo al mejor director
• Reportaje sobre la segunda edición de Punto de Vista en Miradas.net
• Reportaje de la primera edición de Punto de Vista en Trendesombras.com
• Reportaje en el diario El Mundo
• Avance de programación 2007