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Zlín film fest starts its 53rd year and enhances industry activities

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- Canadian producer Rock Demers will be awarded the festival´s Grand Prix, while not only young cinemagoers will enjoy new films in competition as well a selection of best Danish films

The International Film Festival for Children And Youth traditionally held in the Czech town of Zlín is one of the oldest of its kind in the world and systematically covers the highlights of moviemaking for children and teenagers. Now the festival is about to start its 53rd edition.

The main noncompetitive section will be devoted to Danish cinema and will include films by Thomas Vinterberg, Nicolas Winding Refn or Bille August. Pelle Hvenegaard, protagonist from Pelle the Conqueror, will personally attend the festival and Danish child actor  Cyron Melville will also be in town to present several of films he starred in.

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The brand new section Night Horizons will this year present adaptations of works by Hans Christian Andersen. Hans Christian Andersen and the Long Shadow (1998) by Jannik Hastrupis is amongst the selected films while the director will himself be one of the jury members.

The festival has also extended its industry activities as well as supplementary events aimed at students living in the university town of Zlín, where film studios can also be found. Award winning actor and aspiring director Jiří Mádl will come to present his work in progress. Czech TV will be in town to present its plans for its channel aimed at children, while Canadian producer and Zlín´s long time visitor Rock Demers will meet director Vojtěch Jasný during a mutual masterclass. Demers will also receive the festival´s Grand Prix.

The festival will open with Pee-Wee: The Winter That Changed My Life and later Nono, The Zigzag Kid [+see also:
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. The 53rd International Film Festival for Children And Youth will run in Zlín 27th May – 1st June 2013.

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(Translated from French)

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