Chairman of the international jury Nils Gaup (Norway) gives Grand Prix to the Swedish film-maker Gunilla Bresky

The second international TV festival Northern Character took place in Murmansk. More than 70 films, documentaries, programs, feature films and reportages from Russia, Norway, Finland, Sweden competed in the different categories. The Grand prix of the festival got Swedish filmmaker Gunilla Bresky for her film The Gray Blanket Embroidet with Flowers. Barents Press was among the organizers. We publish the Minutes of the jury meeting.

Minutes of the jury meeting of the II International Festival of documentary films and television programs Northern Character

November 18, 2009

The international jury consists of: Nils Gaup (Chairman of the Jury), Elena Larionova, Svetlana Soldatova, Bernt Viklund, Nicholay Bakshevnikov, Reijo Nikkelae, Michael Ananiev, Elena Belkina took the decision on awarding :


Grand prix of the festival is awarded to :

Gunilla Bresky,
Red Lips studio, Lulea, Sweden, for the documentary

A Grey Blanket Embroidered with Flowers,

The winner award in the category Documentary:

Rebels with a Cause UNILUMI OY International Film Company, Ivalo, Finland

The I rate diploma Appearances are Deceptive NRK, Troms/Finnmark

The II rate diploma Janka`s Dreams YLE, Finland

The III rate diploma Lost by the Sea TV Karelia, Petrozavodsk

The III rate diploma The Confession, Filmpool Nord, Lulea


The winner award in the category Television Program:

The Solitude of the Downhill Ride, TV of the newspaper Severny Rabotchy, Monchegorsk, Russia

The I rate diploma Our Morning, TV 21, Murmansk, Russia

The II rate diploma: Integrated Program Follow the River and you will get to the Sea, Co.Ltd RNA Professional, Archangelsk, Russia

The III rate diploma The Black Spring, Co.Ltd ATV Archangelsk, Russia

The III rate diploma Still Cool and Crazy, NRK Troms/Finnmark, Norway

The first prize and diploma of the winner in the nomination The Short Report:
Mother and Daughter, TV 21, Murmansk, Russia
The I rate diploma: Teriberka: Spirit of May, TV Murman, Russia

The II rate diploma: Two in a Boat in the White Sea, TV Pomorye, Archangelsk, Russia

The III rate diploma: The Mine Oktyabrsky, Co. Ltd Telesfera, Channel 7, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

The III rate diploma: A Woman from Kuzomen, Yevgenya Baranovskaya, Vyacheslav Pautov, Murmansk, Russia

The first prize and diploma of the winner in the nomination Culture Program:
Dreamt and Experienced NRK Troms/ Finnmark, Norway

The I rate diploma: All my Things I carry with me, Nicolaesen Film and Media, Alta, Norway

The II rate diploma:
Three Reindeers and One Apartment, NRK, Norway

The III rate diploma: I am your Victor Panov, Co. Ltd Pomorfilm, Archangelsk, Russia

The first prize and diploma of the winner in the nomination Youth Program:

Outdoor Kindergarten: back to the Nature, NHK, Japan in association with Litmus Films, Norway

The I rate diploma: The year of the Youth: 178+187, TV Murman, Murmansk, Russia

The II rate diploma: Gula, NRK Norway

The III rate diploma: Fresh! TV Blits, Murmansk, Russia

The first prize and diploma of the winner in the nomination Short Feature Film:
I Want to go Home, Tornedalen Media, Lulea, Sweden

The I rate diploma: Seeds of the Fall, Direktorn and Fabrikorn, Lulea, Sweden

The II rate diploma: The Light, Filmpool Nord AB, Lulea, Sweden
The III rate diploma: Pokerfaced, Strix Television AB, Lulea, Sweden

Awards of excellence
For the Big Input for our Common History
Author of the film Submarine K-141, Gunilla Bresky, Lulea, Sweden

For the best cameraman’s work
Ki Michael Johansson, Lulea, Sweden for the film The Old Man and the Eagles

For the professionalism in presenting of the difficult social problem

David Kinsella and Anna Sirota,
David Kinsella Production, Nordland, Norway
for the film Killing Girls

More information in Russian is available on the site of TV 21 www.tv21.ru and in the different media in the Barents region. Publications in Russian, English, Swedish and Finnish

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http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/oppgave/442