Award List, 2009

The International Jury composed of:
Maryline Watelet (filmmaker – Belgium)
Luciano Barisone (director of the Festival Dei Popoli - Italy)
Yves Jeuland (filmmaker - France)
Charlotte Garson (critique - France)
Cesar Paes (filmaker - Brazil)
has awarded:

 CINÉMA DU RÉEL GRAND PRIZE
8 000 euros granted by the Bpi
with the support of the Procirep.
to Below Sea Level, Gianfranco Rosi (United States, Italy)

 SCAM INTERNATIONAL AWARD
4 600 euros.
to Robinsons of Mantsinsaari, Victor Asliuk (Germany, Finland, Poland)

 SHORT FILM AWARD
2 500 euros granted by the Bpi
to Over Jorden, under Himlen (Above the Ground, Beneath the Sky), Simon Lereng Wilmont (Denmark, Egypt)

 JORIS IVENS AWARD
attributed to a first film,
2 500 euros granted by the Association The Friends of Cinéma du réel
to Chaiqian (Demolition), J.P. Sniadecki (United States)

The International Jury wishes to attribute a special mention to
Los Herederos, Eugenio Polgovski (Mexico)

The Young Jury composed of 5 highschool students from the Lycées Henri Bergson (Paris XIXe) and Sophie Germain (Paris IVe), and Didier Nion (filmmaker)
has awarded the YOUNG JURY AWARD – CINÉMA DU RÉEL
With the support of the Centre Pompidou and Paris Townhall, 2500 euros
to Below Sea Level, Gianfranco Rosi (United States, Italy)
Special mention to Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai (Disorder), Huang Weikai (China)

The Librarian Committee, composed of:
Alain Carou (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Sylvie Berthon (Médiathèque of Vincennes)
Gianmarco Torri (Biblioteca del Polo di Mediazione Interculturale e Comunicazione - Université de Milan)
Stéphane Mercurio (filmmaker)
has awarded :

 the LIBRARY AWARD
6 000 euros granted by the Books and Reading Department of French Ministry of Culture
to Revolutsioon, mida polnud (The Revolution that wasn’t), Aljona Polunina (Estonia)
Special mention to California Company Town, Lee Ann Schmitt (United States)

 the INTANGIBLE HERITAGE AWARD
2 500 euros granted by the French Heritage Trust - Mission to the ethnology
to Le Pays à l’envers, Sylvaine Dampierre (France)

Culturefrance has awarded the LOUIS MARCORELLES AWARD attributed to a film produced in France
to Ecchymoses, Fleur Albert (France)

The Red Committee (Exchange and experimentation network for the distribution of Documentary Cinema) composed of :
Annick Peigné-Giuly - Chairwoman of Documentaire sur Grand Ecran
Corinne Bopp - Director of Les Rencontres du cinéma documentaire (PERIPHERIE)
Vanina Vignal - Filmmaker, ADDOC’s secretary-treasurer
Hélène Jimenez - Director of Acrif and Lycéens et Apprentis au cinéma
Sylvie Dreyfus-Alphandéry - Chairwoman of the association "Autour du 1er mai"
Arnaud de Mezamat - filmdocumentaire.fr director
has awarded the RED-VECTRACOM AWARD, consisting on the French subtitling, on a vidéo support, of the awarded film
to Revolutsioon mida polnud (The Revolution that wasn’t), Aljona Polunina (Estonia)

The Festival selection committee has awarded the PIERRE AND YOLANDE PERRAULT GRANT, attributed to a young filmmaker, 2 500 euros,
to California Company Town, Lee Anne Schmitt (United States)