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 the director of Zero de Conduite on the centenary of his birth in 2005. Luce Vigo, film critic and daughter of Vigo and Elizabeth Lozinska, 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 30’s, 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: Checkpoint, by Yoav Shamir (Israel).
• Prize for the Best Short Film: Good Times, by Alessandro Cassigoli and Dalia Castel (Italia-Israel).
• Prize for the Best Director: Peter Kerekes, for “66 Seasons” (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: “Platicando”/Chatting”, by Mª Luisa Lafuente (Spain), and “Dr Nagesh”, by Vicent Detours and Dominique Henry (Belgium).

2006

• PUNTO DE VISTA PRIZE for the best documentary, exaequo, to Sonia, by Nathalie Delaunoy and Melodías, by François Bovy.
• PRIZE FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR (3,500 €) to François Bovy for Melodías.
• BEST SHORT FILM (4,000 €) to Un pont sur la drina by Xavier Lukomski.
• SPECIAL MENTIONS (1,000 €):
  • La casa de mi abuela, by Adán Aliaga.
  • Phantom Limb, by Jay Rosenblatt.
  • Tierra negra, by Ricardo Íscar.
• AUDIENCE’S SPECIAL PRIZE (2,500 €): The Play, by Pelin Esmer

2007

• Punto de Vista First Prize: Forever by Heddy Honigmann
• Prize for the Best Director: The Clinic by Tomasz Wolski
• Prize for the Best Short Film: Even If She Had Been a Criminal… by Jean-Gabriel Périot
• The Audience’s Prize: Radiophobia by Julio Sot
• Special mention:
  • Our America by Kristina Konrad
  • Orange Winter by Andrei Zagdansky

2008

• Punto de Vista First Prize: Bingai by Feng Yan
• Prize for the Best Director: Her Dear Old House by Tatsuya Yamamoto
• Prize for the Best Short Film: 52 Percent by Rafal Skalski
• The Audience’s Prize: Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead by Stuart Urban
• Special mention:
  • Just Read After My Death by Morgan Dews
  • A Story of People in War and Peace by Vardan Hovhannisyan

External links

• 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 Tren de sombras
• Reportaje en el diario El Mundo
• Avance de programación 2007