DCIFF DOC GRANT JURY IS VERY PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNER - "KUNG FUTBALL" BY FAN JIAN
Applications have been received from all over the world, including Albania, Africa, Armenia, Australia, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Federated States of Micronesia, France, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, India, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Kosovo, Lesotho, Mexico, Netherlands, Palestine, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Turkey, USA and United Kingdom.
The Doc Grant Jury has unanimously chosen the winner among 70 applicants from all around the world - the project “Kung Futball” by a famous Chinese director Fan Jian.
Fan Jian in his application “Kung Futball” unites all components of DCIFF. Here you feel the symbiosis of globalization and preservation of the national cultural heritage, the connection of the past with the present, the dialogue of the religions and traditions, the relevancy, visuality and the access to something unknown. “Though this project unites two totally different types of sport it also reflects the serious conflicts, both global and personal. “Kung Futball” is an optimistic film with the excursion from the past into present day world, the search for the bridge between East and West, it is a good attempt to establish the dialogue between religions and search for the self-identification of the heroes” says Sasha Klein.
Fan Jian is also a rather well-known and experienced director. He used to work for China Central Television and has made more than twenty documentary shorts. In 2006, his documentary film on Chinese migrant workers, “Dancing in The City”, was selected by the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and was screened at numerous film festivals in and out of China. In 2008, his film “Taxi” was among the Top Ten Documentaries at the China Independent Film Festival (CIFF) and was admitted by the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and OXDOX. “Running in The City”, his new project was selected for Berlinale Talent Campus 2012.
The winner film will be screened at the 2nd edition of DCIFF in Brussels and will be also submitted to other festivals worldwide.
Doc Grant International Jury
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Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière
Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière is a Paris-based freelance journalist and film-critic for German and Swiss daily newspapers and periodicals. She has been a juror at a great number of major international film festivals all over Europe ( such as Cannes and Venice), USA, Australia, India and Africa. She is a program consultant and curator for various international film festivals (such as the documentary festival Visions du Réel, Nyon) and photography exhibitions in Europe and the USA. As director of Fipresci Awards promotion, she is also in charge of curating specific film programs for festivals. Born in former East Germany, she has Master's Degrees in psychology and sociology and has previously worked as a researcher, lecturer and trainer in intercultural communication.
Philip Cheah
Philip Cheah is a film critic and is the editor of BigO, Singapore's only independent pop culture publication. He is Vice-President of NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema).
He is programme consultant for the new South-east Asian Film Festival, the AsiaPacificFilms.com website, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival, and the Dubai Int'l Film Festival. He was also Advisor for the 1st Vietnam Int’l Film Festival.
He is co-editor of the books: Garin Nugroho-And the Moon Dances, Noel Vera’s Critic After Dark and Ngo Phuong Lan’s Modernity and Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema.
In 2004, he was awarded the Korean Cinema Award at the 9th Pusan International Film Festival, for his contribution to Korean film. In 2006, he was awarded the Asian Cinema Prize at the 8th Cinemanila International Film Festival, for his contribution to Asian film.
Sasha Klein
Winner of Israeli Academy Award, Sasha Klein has been working as a freelance Director and Producer since he immigrated to Israel from USSR in 1974.
Sasha Klein is the founder and the CEO of Sasha Klein Productions LTD (1986) – one of the leading production companies in Israel. For more than 25 years Sasha Klein Productions LTD has developed and produced tens of narrative and documentary feature films and television programs.
The signature productions are social issues and documentary dramas; other specialties include topics of the ex-Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The company is an experienced co-production partner for national and international film productions and also provides services to fellow documentary and fiction producers.
Films by Sasha Klein Productions LTD have received numerous awards on several Israeli and international Film Festivals.
Sasha teaches TV & Cinema production at COMAS – the College of Management Academic Studies, Israel.
Sasha Klein is the founder and the CEO of Sasha Klein Productions LTD (1986) – one of the leading production companies in Israel. For more than 25 years Sasha Klein Productions LTD has developed and produced tens of narrative and documentary feature films and television programs.
The signature productions are social issues and documentary dramas; other specialties include topics of the ex-Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The company is an experienced co-production partner for national and international film productions and also provides services to fellow documentary and fiction producers.
Films by Sasha Klein Productions LTD have received numerous awards on several Israeli and international Film Festivals.
Sasha teaches TV & Cinema production at COMAS – the College of Management Academic Studies, Israel.
