PRESS RELEASE PRESSEMITTEILUNG DOK Leipzig Animation

PRESS RELEASE
PRESSEMITTEILUNG
58th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
58. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
26.10.-01.11.2015
Press Release # 16/2014
17 December 2014
DOK Leipzig Animation Winners eligible for OSCARs®
The best animation films at DOK Leipzig can qualify for an OSCAR® from now on. DOK Leipzig
has been placed in a further category as an Academy qualifying festival by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. From 2014, the winning film of the Golden Dove in DOK
Leipzig's International Competition Animated Film automatically qualifies for the annual competition
of the ACADEMY AWARD ® in the Short Film category. The theatrical release of the film to
American cinemas in the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles or Manhattan is not necessary,
normally a prerequisite for the qualification.
“The possibility to qualify for an OSCAR® means that winning a main prize for short film at DOK
Leipzig will open fantastic opportunities to filmmakers,” explains Festival Director Claas Danielsen.
“The fact that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has elevated our two-genre
festival to both categories of the acclaimed series of Academy qualifying festivals proves the
international significance of DOK Leipzig.”
The Golden Dove Award for the best Animated Film, worth 5,000 Euro, was awarded this year to
the Swedish contribution “Still Born” by Åsa Sandzén. This film can now qualify for the 2015
ACADEMY AWARD® in the Short Film category.
This year's winner of the Golden Dove for the International Short Documentary Competition is the
Dutch contribution “Escort”, by Guido Hendrikx. He can now qualify for an OSCAR® in the
category “Documentary Short Subject”. This Golden Dove is worth 3,000 Euro and is sponsored by
TELEPOOL Pty Ltd.
Entries for the 58th edition of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
can be submitted starting in the end of March until 15 May or 10 July 2015, depending on the date
of the film's completion.
Further information about this year's prize winners of DOK Leipzig can be found here: www.dokleipzig.de/festival/preistraeger-2014/?lang=en& The new festival lists of the ACADEMY will be
published in January. The regulations for the ACADEMY AWARDS® can be found here:
www.oscars.org/rules
Any questions concerning this press release?
Ulrike Zoller, Leiterin Öffentlichkeitsarbeit | [email protected] | 0341-30864-1060
DOK Leipzig thanks:
DOK Partner: MaXx Print GmbH | DOK Supporter: EU-OSHA – Europäische Agentur für Sicherheit und Gesundheitsschutz am
Arbeitsplatz, BIG Cinema GmbH, Telepool GmbH, TFD Technischer Filmdienst GmbH, nextbike GmbH, modulbox mo systeme GmbH,
ils medientechnik GmbH, IQ Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH, Leipziger Messe GmbH, PROMENADEN Hauptbahnhof Leipzig, Sky
Deutschland AG, ver.di FilmUnion | DOK IT Partner: Computer Leipzig | DOK Cinema Partner: CineStar | DOK Media Partner: MDR,
der Freitag | DOK Cooperation Partner: DEFA-Stiftung, Doc Alliance, Documentary Campus, DOK.Incubator, Goethe-Institut, MDR
Figaro, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Polnisches Institut Berlin, Filiale Leipzig, Stiftung Friedliche Revolution, Tribeca Film
Institute, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig | Cooperation Partner DOK Nachwuchs: Sächsische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk
und neue Medien | DOK Funds: Stadt Leipzig, Sächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Die Beauftragte der
Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union,
Auswärtiges Amt, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, German Films, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Medienstiftung der
Sparkasse Leipzig, SWISS FILMS, ZDF
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