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FESTIVAL 2001
In 2001 the festival finally received the governmental financial injection it needed to organize a ‘real’ festival again. Finally the organization was able to hire a real team for the preparations of the festival and competition was expand to an international level with a first competitive selection of European live action films. Though the selected films were of an exceptionally high quality and audience attendance was more or less the same as the last real life festival, the 2001 edition suffered from some miscalculations. The most important deficiency proved to be the lack of a festival centre, the festival was spread over too many locations (7 all across town). Also the festival didn’t have the bearing capacity for a 10 days festival with 75 screenings . On the other hand the first steps towards internationalization were made and some remarkable shorts like Fait D’Hiver (that later won over 35 prizes and was nominee for an Oscar) won their first prize at the International Short Film Festival Leuven.
FACTS
Dates: November 23rd – December 2nd 2001
Visitors: 4 150
National Competition:
Live action Audience Award: Fait D’Hiver (Dirk Beliën), Jury Award: België-Turkije (Brecht Van Hoenacker), Award for Best Newcomer: Dialing the Devil (Toon Aerts) Animated Shorts Audience Award: Antipoden (Frodo Kuipers) Music Videos Audience Award: Bananaqueen (Neville Marcinkowski)
European Competition (only live action):
Audience Award: joint award Quand on est amoureux c’est merveilleux (BE, Fabrice du Welz) and Kovat Miehet (FI, Maarit Lalli) Jury Award: Copy Shop (AT, Virgil Widrich)
Jury Members: Vincent Bal (BE, director), Jan Verheyen (BE, director), Kurt Vandemaele (BE, film journalist), Adriaan Van Den Hoof (BE, actor), Annemie Degryse (BE, producer), Kari Lounela (FI, International Short Film Festival Tampere), Judith Lewis (DE, International Short Film Festival Hamburg)
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FESTIVAL 2002
The call for a festival centre was answered when in 2002 the organization was asked to run the art house cinema of the STUK arts centre. From now on the festival organizers had an office area, a cinema theatre and, during the festival, 4 venues at their disposal. The re-location of the festival to STUK brought about not only the logistic professionalization the organizers had been waiting for, it also marked a change of course for the festival outlines. Audience growth was no longer the sole target, the festival wanted to reach out more to the industry professionals and focus on the festival’s international appeal. The festival mascot was introduced and the festival was now labeled as a talent scouting event. With 45 screenings spread over 6 days and 2 locations, the 2002 edition was more manageable then ever and this was resulted in a high audience and professionals attendance and appreciation. In one year, the number of accredited guests had tripled and also film distributors, tv programmers and international producers had found their way to the International Short Film Festival Leuven.
FACTS
Dates: December 9th – 14th 2002
Visitors: 4 300
National Competition:
Live action Audience and Jury Award: dJU! (Daniël Lamberts), Award for Best Newcomer: Flat 41 (Hans Vercauter) Animated Shorts Audience Award: Something Fishy (Reinout Swinnen) Music Videos Audience Award: Head in a Bucket (Kenneth Debacker)
European Competition (only live action):
Audience Award: Music for One Apartment and Six Drummer (SE, Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson), Jury Award: Squash (FR, Lionel Baillieu)
Jury Members: Dorothée Van Den Berghe (BE, director), Wim Opbrouck (BE, actor), Fien Troch (BE, director), Dawn Sharpless (UK, Short Film Bureau London), Stephan Sarassi (DE, International Short Film Festival Cologne)
FESTIVAL 2003
The 2003 edition of the festival was a better, bigger and more smoothly organized version of the 2002 festival. A venue with free screenings of experimental work was added to the festival schedule, a competition for short documentaries was initiated in the national competition and there was a first unpretentious industry day. The number of international guests rose steady, the European selection was much appreciated by the festival visitors and the connection with the industry professionals grew closer. With an increase in both professional attendance and audience admission the festival was on the right track.
FACTS
Dates: November 30th –December 6th 2003
Visitors: 4 600
National Competition:
Live action Audience Award: Love Story in B-minor (Ief Desseyn), Jury Award: Joséphine (Joël Vanhoebrouck), Award for Best Newcomer: The Return of the 50ft Woman (Ian Swerts) Animated Shorts Audience Award: Like You See (Evelien Hoedekie) Music Videos Audience Award: Jumpneedle (Tom Barman) Short Documentaries Jury Award: Moeder, waarom werken wij? (Fien Cerfontaine)
European Competition (only live action):
Audience Award: United We Stand (NO, Hans Petter Moland), Jury Award: Love Me or Leave Me Alone (UK, Duane Hopkins)
Jury Members: Hans Herbots (BE, director), Tine Reymer (BE, actress), Frans Lefever (BE, Buyer CANVAS national broadcasting company), Jürgen Kittel (DE, International Short Film Festival Hamburg), Tuula Kumpunen (FI, International Short Film Festival Tampere) |
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