Here are the
results from 6th International Underwater Film Festival
in Belgrade contests:
Jury: Mr. Steve Lichtag (USA/CZ),
Mr. Nikola Petrovic (YU), Mr. Miljan Vuksanovic (YU). All
three members of the jury are known underwater film authors,
producers and directors, each of them with experience of
more than 20 years.
Grand
Prix
“Umbria – From Wreck
to Reef”, Erich Proll, Universum, Austria
Grand Prix Patron -
SMY ONDINA Dive Indonesia - Cruise 2003
Enrique Rubio
enrique@thebestdivingintheworld.com
Diplad International s.l.
http://www.thebestdivingintheworld.com
1st Place
“Science of diving”, Michael
O’Connor, NHNZ, New Zealand
2nd Place
“Ocean Chronicles”, Leandro
Blanco, Spain
3rd Place
“U – boot”, Evgueni Tomashov
& Anastasia Budykho, Abyss Diving Club, Russia
Best Yugoslav Film
“Giant on the bottom: Mission
Zenta”, Aleksandar Ljustina, Triton Media, Yugoslavia
Award Patron: Natonal Park
Djerdap - 7 days tour
http://www.npdjerdap.com
Special awards:
Best Director
“Titanic: and then there was
silence...”, Alan Bezak, Slovakia
Public Award
“Ocean Men: Challenge of the
Deep”, Christoph Redl, H5B5 Media AG, Austria
Jury Award
“Vertical again”, Dusan Varda,
Progressive Team, Yugoslavia
UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jury: Mr. Tomislav Peternek
(YU), Vojkan Kacuric (YU), Zoran Rubinjoni (YU) – all are
famous professional Yugoslav underwater photographers, published
in almost all Yugoslav and many European newspapers and
magazines.
Color photography
1st Place
“Coral and divers”, Taci Yucedere,
Turkey
2nd Place
“No Name”, Recep Donmez, Turkey
3rd Place
“Vyraz”, Richard Jaronek,
Czech Republic
Black & white
1st Place
“Encounter”, Werner Thiele,
Austria
There were 46 films
in the competition and more than 35 photos.
International Underwater Film
Festival, Belgrade