17. International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography
PLUS CAMERIMAGE 2009
Festival Centre, Grand Theatre in Łódź, Poland
28.11. – 05.12.2009
The Plus Camerimage Festival programme this year will abound in a wide variety of riveting film themes. The Festival’s repertoire will include regular programme items such as Main Competition, Polish Films Competition, Student Etudes Competition, workshops, seminars, modern film equipment and technologies presentations as well as meetings with eminent cinema personalities. As every year, attendees will be treated to the honorary laureates’ oeuvre and the European film industry achievements, including those of Poland. Within the section of documentary films both short and feature length documentaries will be screened and will compete in two categories, where the festival’s as well as the patron’s awards will be granted. Music Videos Competition will present music videos from all over the world which have been selected due to their visual and aesthetic values of an image.
OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FESTIVAL Opening Ceremony of the Festival will take place on Saturday, November 28th, and will feature a premiere screening of the film GET LOW with participation of the director Aaron Schneider, the cinematographer David Boyd, the producer Dean Zanuck, representatives of Polish co-production company, TVN: Dariusz Gąsiorowski and Justyna Pawlak as well as Polish executive producer, Konrad Wojterkowski, who will introduce the movie to the audience. Furthermore, GET LOW will be the first film screened within Plus Camerimage 2009 Main Competition.
THE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT
PRESENTATION OF FRANK GEHRY’S CONCEPT DESING World famous American architect, an author of the design for Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, will visit the Festival and present his Concept Design for Camerimage Łódź Center, a new festival and congress facility to be built in the New Łódź City Center, next to the David Lynch Studio. Frank Gehry will present the design and together with the Festival Director, Marek Żydowicz, will ceremonially unveil the models of Camerimage Łódź Center – a unique complex giving Plus Camerimage Festival an opportunity to concentrate all the elements of the Festival programme in the one and only place!
