25/11/2005

Tonino Delli Colli, the famous director of photography for Pasolini, Fellini, Sergio Leone, Roman Polański, will receive, posthumously, an award for his life works completeness. It will be given by the organisers of the 13th edition of Camerimage, the Łódź International Film Chief Operators Festival (26 Nov. – 4 Dec.).

Łódź – the high place in Poland in regards to cinema – is expecting the arrival of over 300 chief operators, 1500 students and hundreds of cinema amateurs from all around the world. Camerimage traditionally gives recognition to the photography masters yet it also honours other world cinema personalities. This is why the Special Krzysztof Kieślowski Prize will be awarded to Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Strange Days). The actor will participate in the opening ceremony’s presentation of The Constant Gardener [+see also:
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15 films have been selected for competition, 12 of which are European productions or co-productions. In the sections parallel to the festival, there will be new Polish film presentations as well as a European film panorama, programmes on Estonian and Bulgarian cinema and two retrospectives of Istvan Szabo and Lajos Koltai’s films. Image, lighting and editing workshops will allow students and professionals to stay up to date on the latest advances.

(Translated from French)