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East Silver Caravan in 2011

All That Glitters | Tomas Kudrna | Czech Republic | 2010
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16.12.2011
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The end of the year offers a good opportunity to look back and rate the last year. For East Silver Caravan, and most importantly films included, the 2011 was especially successful year, reaching 128 festival releases and 15 awards for Eastern European documentary films.

In 2011 East Silver Caravan supported – in a greater or a lesser extent – in total 115 documentary films. The number of East Silver Caravan’s destinations was increased to 80 in 2011 (which is twice as much as in previous year). This increase resulted in 128 festival screenings of supported films (for comparison 55 films were screened at festivals in 2010). Many of those films were selected for competitive sections and 15 documentaries were awarded (for example Sterling Award for Best World Feature for Family Instinct at Silverdocs 2011, HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award for At the Edge of Russia at HotDocs, Best Documentary Award for The World According to Ion B. at Cape Winelands Film Festival or FIPRESCI award for Paradise Hotel at Thessaloniki IDFF).

The most successful films of East Silver Caravan in 2011 were:

Pit no. 8 (Marianna Kaat, Estonia, Ukraine, 2010) - 12 festival releases
Family Instinct (Andris Gauja, Latvia, 2010) - 10 festival releases
Paradise Hotel (Sophia Tzavella, Bulgaria, 2010) - 8 festival releases
At the Edge of Russia (Michal Marczak, Poland, 2010) - 8 festival releases
Matchmaking Mayor (Erika Hníková, Czech Republic, 2010) - 7 festival releases

Films in total included into East Silver Caravan 2011: 115

Festivals in total: 80

Number of festival releases: 128

Number of films awarded: 15

List of films currently included in East Silver Caravan could be found here, same as the list of destinations for 2012, which is still increasing during the year.

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16.12.2011
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