SCENECS International Debut Film Festival, is held annually in Hilversum, the Netherlands and is produced by the SCENECS foundation.
Festival The festival uniquely promotes new and emerging filmmakers from around the world. It provides a platform to introduce themselves and their craft to their new audience and also to the film industry. Here, the completed films receive their first preview. The entries also participate in an international competition in the categories fiction, short fiction, documentary and student film. The winning entries in each category receive an award, shich is presented at the SCENECS Grand Gala Award Event, this ceremony wraps up the end of the festival on the last night. SCENECS consist of a film festival, award ceremony, international exchange program and different activities with regards to film education and the development of talent.
History The festival was founded in 2006 by the film maker Arya Tariverdi and organised in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. It is the first film festival in the Netherlands to focus entirely on debutant filmmakers. In 2016 the festivalmoved its program and head office to the media city of Hilversum.
Festival locations The venues of the festival are currently: VUE Hilversum, Studio 21, Film Theater Hilversum and various libraries.
Awards Official award This award, called "the Dutch Golden Stone Award" is in the image of a winged female form, with a golden stone in her hands. The Award for the First Edition of the Filmfestival was initially designed by Isabeau Nagel but due to reproductive issues & artistic differences on the adaption of the first design, the Award for the following filmfestivals was re-designed and further produced by the Dutch artist Ellis de Kreij.
Award categories The Dutch Golden Stone Award is awarded during the annual Grand Gala Award Event to the directors of the categories of Best Fiction, Best Short Fiction, Best Documentary and Best Student Film. In addition awards are also presented in the categories of Best Acting Talent, Audience Award and Litetime Achievement Award.
Miss SCENECS Film Festival In 2006 the festival introduced "Miss SCENECS Film Festival". Every year a young talented woman from the entertainment and film industry is selected by the organization and awarded with this title. Her role in this title is as festival ambassador and promote its activities. Miss SCENECS Film Festival portraits the Dutch Golden Stone Award and during the award event she awards the winners. In 2017 Miss Asia Pacific International (2016), Tessa le Conge was awarded with this title.
Award winners
SCENECS Award for Best Fiction
Year Film Director Country 2006 Zeven Zonden Naäma Palfrey 2007 Gödel Igor Kramer 2008 Brand Niels Bourgonje 2009 Bingo Timur Ismailov 2010 Wing: The Fish That Talked Back Ricky Rijneke 2011 Geen Weg Terug Shariff Korver 2012 Atomes Arnaud Dufeys 2013 Silent Ones Ricky Rijneke 2014 Bahar In Wonderland Behrooz Karamzizade 2015 Beste Vrienden Ruwan Heggelman 2016 Journey To The Mother Mikhail Kosyrev Nesterov / 2017 Tenderness Emilia Zielonka 2018 An American In Texas Anthony Pedone
SCENECS Award for Best Short Fiction
Year Film Director Country 2016 One In Vasha Narace 2017 The Wedding Patrol Rogier Hardeman 2018 You Did Not Forget Simon Intihar
SCENECS Award for Best Documentary
Year Film Director Country 2006 Vingers Op Het Glas Olaf Koelewijn & Edwin Bakker 2007 Zo Is Dat – Het Zijn En De Aarde Elizabeth Rocha Salgado 2008 Ypke Jasper Huizinga 2009 Diary of a Times Square Thief Klaas Bense 2010 Lonely Pack Justin Peach 2011 Village Without Women Srdjan Sarenac 2012 Meanwhile in Mamelodi Benjamin Kahlmeyer 2013 Odysseus Gambit Alex Lora Cercos 2014 North East Hard West Bart van den Aardweg 2016 A Lizard Under the Skin Maud Neve 2017 Closer to Maarten Raimond Grimbergen 2018 The Island Adam Weingrod
SCENECS Lifetime Achievement Award
Year Director / Producer 2009 Jos Stelling 2010 Jean van den Velde 2011 Pieter Verhoeff 2012 Dick Maas 2013 Dave Schram & Maria Peters 2014 Hans de Wolf 2016 Steven de Jong 2017 Jeroen Beker
VUE Audience Award
Year Film Director Country 2011 Lieve Anne-Marieke Anne-Marieke Graafmans 2012 Framing the Other Willem Timmers & Ilja Kok 2013 Onomkeerbaar Maaike Broos 2014 Bonapetit! Anastasia Lukovnikova 2014 Last of you Dan Sachar 2015 Dance Iranian Style Farshad Aria 2016 Gender Victory Len Enkhuizen 2017 A Lifetime of Love Carilijne Pieters 2018 Wheels of Change Jaime Prins
SCENECS Talent Award
Year Film Director Country 2016 Mannenpraat Sean Musch, Manon Zwaan & Richard van der Spoel 2017 Always Move Forward Fergus Riem Vis 2018 Breaking Borders Barabara Vollebregt en Fatima Warsame
SCENECS Award for Best Acting Talent
Year Film Director Country 2017 Spaak Tim Douwsma 2018
References
External links "Scenecs". Festagent.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18 Official website