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The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE is a festival
dedicated to cinematography
and its creators cinematographer
s.
The first seven events (1993-1999) were held in Toruń
, Poland
. The next ten events (2000-2009) were held in Łódź. Since 2010, the festival has taken place in Bydgoszcz.
At the end of November every year, CAMERIMAGE brings together professional cinematographers, students and other people associated with the film industry.
The main awards are:
The festival also includes:
The CAMERIMAGE festival spans over a course of one week, with multiple events at one time.
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
dedicated to cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...
and its creators cinematographer
Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
s.
The first seven events (1993-1999) were held in Toruń
Torun
Toruń is an ancient city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River. Its population is more than 205,934 as of June 2009. Toruń is one of the oldest cities in Poland. The medieval old town of Toruń is the birthplace of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus....
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. The next ten events (2000-2009) were held in Łódź. Since 2010, the festival has taken place in Bydgoszcz.
At the end of November every year, CAMERIMAGE brings together professional cinematographers, students and other people associated with the film industry.
The main awards are:
- Golden, Silver and Bronze Frog for best cinematography (main competition)
- Golden, Silver and Bronze Tadpole for best student work (Student Etudes/Films Competition)
- an award for best music videoMusic videoA music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
- an award fot best cinematography in a music video
- Golden Frog Award for best short documentary filmDocumentary filmDocumentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
- Golden Frog Award for best documentary featureFeature filmIn the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
film - Golden Frog Award for best Polish film
The festival also includes:
- CAMERIMAGE Lifetime Achievement Award
- other competitions and awards
- Student Panorama - screenings of student films which did not make it into the main competition
- Camerimage Forum - a seminar devoted to authorship rights and working conditions of cinematographers
- special screenings and premieres, reviews, retrospectives, meetings, seminars and workshops led by well known filmmakers
- equipment showcases
- various exhibitions and live music performances
The CAMERIMAGE festival spans over a course of one week, with multiple events at one time.