ASOLOARTFILMFESTIVAL
22-28 September, 2003
Asolo – Montebelluna

GRAN PREMIO ASOLO 2003 TO MARIO MARTONE

The jury of the AsoloArtFilmFestival 2003, with the following members: Vittorio Fagone (President of the jury), Corrado Balest, Luca Massimo Barbero, Giuseppe Barbieri, Fabrizio Borin, has awarded the following prizes after viewing the 59 films in competition:

GRAND PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST FILM IN COMPETITION to Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano by Mario Martone (Ananas, Italy, 2001).

PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST FILM ON ART to Orba/Cian by Eduardo López López (Jaime Genovart, Argentina, 2003).

A Special Mention for the following film in the same category: Lluvia by Diego Agudo Pinilla (Emilio Lujan, Spain, 2002).

PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST FILM ON LIVES OF ARTISTS to Martha Argerich, Evening Talks by Georges Gachot (Georges Gachot/Ideale Audence, France, 2002).

PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST VIDEO/COMPUTER ART to Gestalt by Thorsten Fleisch (Thorsten Fleisch, Germania, 2003) ex aequo with Regard de pierre by Pierre Yves Cruaud (Pierre Yves Cruaud, France, 2002).

PRIZE ASOLO FOR BEST EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION (SCHOOLS) to Roll over Ehrenfeld by Olaf Geuer (Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany, 2002).

A Special Mention for the followings films: Aggigma by Giuliano Vece and Petra Biondina Volpe (KHM, Germany, 2002) and to Cocteau Cento by Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino (Luis Valdovino, Fine Arts Department, University of Colorado, USA, 2003).

In addition, the jury has signalled the praiseworthy activity done by the Istituto Statale d’Arte di Urbino “Scuola del Libro” – Section Animation Drawing (2002) which revealed itself to be actively involved in experimenting new audiovisual techniques.

PRIZE GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO FOR BEST SOUND TRACK to Foreign Bodies by Isabelle Birebent (Isabelle Birebent, Germany, 2002).

SPECIAL PRIZE “FLAVIA PAULON”: The Presidency of the Asolo International Art Festival (A.I.A.F.) has instituted this year the Special Prize “Flavia Paulon” entitled to the founder of both the “Festival of Films on Art and the Lives of Artists” (1973) and of the “International Cartoon Festival” (1974) and has assigned it to Mario Verdone for extraordinary and incomparable merits accumulated during over half a century of activity in the fields of historical research, of critical interpretation, of promotion and diffusion of the cinematographic culture.