19/10/2012 - Austrian-Iranian filmmakers win top prize of £6000

Arash and Arman Riahi, Austrian filmmakers of Iranian heritage have won The Pixel Pitch competition at this year’s Power To The Pixel event on the sidelines of the BFI London Film Festival for Everyday Rebellion. The cross-media project is designed as an interactive platform for the voices of protest across the world. The brothers win the ARTE prize of £6000. Competition was stiff, with the project vying with seven other strong finalists.

Producer Catherine Tait from Duopoly Canada won £2,500 and selection for beActive’s Digital Comedy Lab 2103 for SOS: Save Our Skins. For The Slumbers: The Wish Tales Michael Luda of Saxonia Media, Germany, has been awarded the Cinekid Pixel Market Prize (4-14 year olds) that includes automatic selection to the Cinekid for Professionals co-production market plus return travel and two nights accommodation in Amsterdam.

The Mozilla Pixel Market Prize for Non-Fiction has been awarded to producer Sarah Arruda of Helios Design Labs, Canada for Queen West. Art. Noise. Mayhem. She will participate at the Living Docs hackathon in San Francisco in early 2013, with complimentary flights and accommodation included.

Besides these, Power To The Pixel supports a prize for one producer graduating from The Pixel Lab, an intensive cross-media course that helps European producers and media professionals build sustainable businesses and innovative practices using cross-media strategies. This year’s winner of the £3000 prize is French/Swiss creative producer Laurent Nègre of Bord Cadre Films for Zeru: White Skin, Dark Fate.