The general assembly of the Austrian Film Forum, the supporting association of the Diagonale, is delighted to announce that Artistic Director Barbara Pichler’s contract has been extended for three more years, until 2014. The general assembly unanimously decided to extend the contract based on the successful direction of the Diagonale 2009 and 2010. The general assembly congratulates Barbara Pichler for designing and realizing the first two festivals as artistic director: the growing public int...
Diagonale Prize Winners 2010
Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Feature Film (€ 21,000)
Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel for La Pivellina (AT/IT 2009)
Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Documentary Film (€ 21,000)
Brigitte Weich & Karin Macher for Hana, dul, sed ... (AT 2009)
Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema for Best Experimental, Animated or Short Film (€ 10,500)
Sabine Marte for B-star, untötbar! reloaded (AT 2009)
Diagonale Diocese Graz-Seckau...
Diagonale 2010 - the Festival of Austrian Film - has opened on March 16th in Graz. From now on you can download various press material (press kit, press releases, filmstills and press photographs) here.The guest list is available here. Programme online now.
This year's highlights include:
+ 103 films in the selected programme: a selection of Austria's current best feature, documentary, short, experimental and animated films as well as videos with lots of discoveries.
+ Spectrum: 8 inter...
Diagonale 2010 Opening Film
Diagonale 2010 will open with Robert A. Pejo's The Cameramurderer on the 16th March at the Helmut-List-Halle. This Austrian-Swiss-Hungarian co-production is an emotionally charged psychodrama based on the eponymous bestseller by the Styrian author Thomas Glavinic. The lead roles are played by: Merab Ninidze, Dorka Gryllus, Andreas Lust and Ursina Lardi.
A Tribute to Peter Schreiner in collaboration with Ö1
One of the high points of this year's festival is the t...
This year's festival trailer brRRMMMWHEee has been created by the multi-award winning video and music performance artist Billy Roisz, whose work in recent years has featured in the Diagonale again and again. Austrian moviegoers can look forward to an audiovisual miniature feauturing a high-speed chase of electrons in sound and pictures from February 16.
Dariusz Kowalski about his trailer:
At the 62nd edition of the Locarno International Film Festival the Raimondo Rezzonico Prize 2009 for Best Independent Producer will be presented to French producer Martine Marignac. A graduate in philosophy and film aesthetics, Martine Marignac began her career as a press officer for Simon Mizrahi, with whom she worked for seven years. She has mixed with then New Wave directors such as Godard, Truffaut and Rohmer, as well as Italian filmmakers Comencini, Risi, Scola, Bellocchio and Ferreri. Mart...
