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The FOCAL International Awards 2005

in association with

Celebrating the use of footage archive images in the creative media

and the Winners were...

PRESS RELEASE

Congratulations to all the Winners and many thanks to the judges and sponsors for their wonderful support

Award for Best Use of Footage in a Current Affairs Production

Sponsored by
  The Power of Nightmares To view
(Left to right) Adam Curtis & Stuart Robertson, BBC with Ray Sidwell, CNN ImageSource and Lord Puttnam
Award for Best Use of Footage in a History Factual Production
Sponsored by
  Camarades, il était une fois les communistes français To view
(Left to right) Lord Puttnam, Martin Poultney, Ascent Media and Yves Jeuland, Compagnie des Phares et Balises (France)

Award for Best Use of Footage in an Entertainment, Arts or Drama Production

Sponsored by
  Body Talk To view
(Left to right) Liz Fay, Lord Puttnam, Philip Armstrong-Dampier, ITN Factual

Award for Best Use of Footage in a Clip Based Entertainment Production

Sponsored by

  The Ultimate Film To view
(Left to right) Lord Puttnam, North One TV & Sponsor Amanda Huntley, MD Huntley Film Archives

Award for Best Use of Footage in a Wildlife / Natural History Production

Sponsored by

  Animal Games To view
(Far left and far right) Matthew Gordon & Rob Pilley, John Downer Productions. (Centre) Lord Puttnam and Sue Thexton, MD ITN Archive

Award for Best Use of Footage in a Sport Production

Sponsored by

  The Fight To view
(Left to right) Rita Costantinou, ITV sport Archive, Lord Puttnam, Lawrence Breen, BBC

Award for Best Use of Footage in an Advertisement

Sponsored by

  Charal - The Race To view
Valérie Massignon, XY Zebre (France)and Hubert Best , Bird & Bird

Award for Best Use of Footage in a Pop Music Video

Sponsored by
  Avril: "Be Yourself" To view
(Left to right) Lord Puttnam, Jason Boney, Savvis and Patrick Volve, Metronomic (France)

Award for Best Use of Footage in a Corporate Production

Sponsored by

  Forum Barcelona 2004 To view
Lord Puttnam & Ann Hummel, Footage Researcher

Award for Best Use of Footage in a Feature Film

Sponsored by

  Fahrenheit 9/11 To view
Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, Westside Productions/Dog Eat Dog Film (USA)

Award for Best Use of Footage in Electronic Publishing

Sponsored by
  Film Australia's Immigration - DVD To view
Lord Puttnam & Kim Dalton, Chief Executive, Australian Film Commission

Award for Archive Restoration or Preservation Project

Sponsored by
  The General To view
(Left to right) Lord Puttnam, Serge Bromberg, Lobster Films (France) & Heidi Wilkinson, Iron Mountain
Award for Post Production Work on an Archive-based Production
Sponsored by
  Japan's War To view
(Let to right) Adrian Wood, Polly Pettit, Lord Puttnam, Brian Aherne & Stephen Moore, TWI

Award for Footage Researcher of the Year

Sponsored by
  Adrian Wood & Polly Pettit for Japan's War
(Left to right) Polly Pettit, Adrian Wood, Lord Puttnam & Véronique Foucault, APTN Library

Award for Footage Library of the Year

Sponsored by
  Inamedia To view
(Left to right) Ana Vinuela, Beatrice Schneider, Jean-Luc Vernhet & Jean-Marc Bordes, INA (France)

Award for Lifetime Achievement

JANE MERCER

(Left to right) Main Sponsor, Chris O'Hearn, APTN Library, Jane Mercer, Chair FOCAL International & Jerry Kuehl, Chief Juror

Thanks also to Supporting Sponsors!

 

The FOCAL International Awards

were presented by

Lord David Puttnam CBE

9th May 2005 at BAFTA, London

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