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International Festival of Independent Cinema ''Off Camera'' is a film festival held in Kraków, Poland, with up to 400 screenings annually, seminars, international stars, guests and jury. It is the first event of its kind in the country based on creative dialog between world experts representing other independent film competitions such as the Sundance Film Festival and CineVegas, as well as festivals in Bangkok, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Busan, Dubai, Kolkata, Los Angeles, Reykjavík, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Venice. It is a festival of festivals with official backing from the City of Kraków with dozens of international sponsors and prominent partners including Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Lufthansa, Mercedes-Benz and Sony. In 2008–2014 the official name was "Off Plus Camera", since 2015 it is "PKO Off Camera". The festival consists of film screenings in studio movie theatres located within the Old Town. The organizer of the event is the Society for Independent and Similar Arts ''Off Camera'' (''Stowarzyszenie Sztuki Niezależnej i Nie Tylko Off Camera'') as one of the city's "Six Senses" (''Sześć Zmysłów'') programme of sponsoring artistic life in Kraków. The Festival organizers invite young filmmakers from all over the world, directors, actors and film industry experts to meet the audience and take advantage of getting their feedback in person. Szymon Miszczak is the Director of the Festival and Ania Trzebiatowska is the Artistic Director. ''Off Plus Camera'' program showcases newest work by world-class directors as well as retrospectives of the most distinguished artists of independent cinema from the past. == Main dramatic competition "Making Way" == The most important event of the ''Off Plus Camera'' Festival is its Main Competition named "Making Way" (''Wytyczanie drogi''). In it, the films from all over the world compete for the Kraków Film Award in the sum of $100,000 presented by the President of the City of Kraków. The main criteria for the rating by the festival programmers are the quality and the artistic merit of the films, the use of traditional and avant-garde filming techniques as well as the directors' sensibilities and artistic maturity in their productions.〔 In 2009, 12 films from 8 countries were qualified to the Competition. The winner was chosen by the international Jury, whose members were Allison Anders, Zbigniew Preisner, Max Farberbock, Fernando Trueba and Andriej Zwiagincew and the prize went to Sebastian Silva for the movie La Nana. The winner was also given 1, 000, 000 Polish zlotys from the Polish Film Institute for the production of his next film in Poland.〔 According to the main theme, "Making Way", the Kraków Film Award is meant to make it more likely for the winner to shoot their next movie. That is exactly what happened in the case of the winner of the first edition of ''Off Plus Camera''. In 2008 the Kraków Film Award went to the American director, Azazel Jacobs for his film ''Momma’s Man''. Thanks to the prize he was able to start working on the next project. Sebastian Silva has similar plans and he wants to work on the script telling a story of the sirens. Marek Najbrt, whose picture, ''Protector'', won the Kraków Film Award of the third edition of the festival, made Polish Film in Kraków as a part of his winner’s deal. The premiere of the production took place in 2014 in Karlovy Vary. The winner of the fourth edition of the festival was Park-Jung Bum, who won for his film ''The Journals of Musan''. In 2012 the award went to the Danish director Mads Matthiesen for the movie ''Teddy Bear''. Marcin Kryształowicz won the sixth edition of ''Off Plus Camera'' for his film ''Manhunt''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Festival of Independent Cinema PKO Off Camera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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