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  FOCAL International Awards 2008

FINAL SUBMISSIONS ENTERED

(Not including the special categories: The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award, Footage Library of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award - see below)

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i-iii) Awards for Best Use of Footage in Factual Productions (3 separate Awards will be presented)
1927: The coalhouse Year BBC Wales
9/11: Ground Zero Underworld Testimony Films
After Fidel Memory Films Inc  
Andere Tijden (Changing Times) NPS
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain BBC
Battle for the Holy Land: Jerusalem CTVC
Being Jewish in France Kuiv Productions
Blood & Bullets - The Story of Military Medicine The History Channel UK
Britain's Love Story Testimony Films
Broken Arrow. Nuclear Accident In Palomares-Spain Pitaco Producciones S.L.U.
Butterkinder (Leaving for Bread and Butter) Knut Ogris Films & Àrea de Televisió & ORF Television & TV3 television
Che Guevara - The body and the legend ZDF/ARTE
Constructing Australia: The Bridge Film Australia
Cuba, an African Odyssey Temps Noir
Darfur: On Our Watch Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Deep Wreck Mysteries MALLISON SADLER PRODUCTIONS
Diana: The witnesses in the Tunnel ITN Factual
Disasters RTE
Dispatches: Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola Vera Productions Ltd
Dynasties (Series 5) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn BBC Arts
Finland zero Points YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Company
Frongoch - birthplace of the IRA Cwmni Da
Hairstyle Confidential Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Hitler and Mussolini LOOKS Filmproduktionen GmbH
Hitler's Favourite Royal Monkey
How To Be Ex Prime Minister BBC
Hunting Down the Nazis CC et C Clarke Costelle et Cie
I,Videogame (aka Rise of the Videogame) World of Wonder Productions
In Love with Adolf Hitler   CC et C Clarke Costelle et Cie
Iris Chang, The Rape Of Nanking Real to Reel Productions Inc.
James May's 20th Century - Honey I Shrunk the World BBC
Last Party at the Palace Spun Gold TV Ltd
Lights, Camera, The Queen - 50 Years of the Queens Speech Shine Limited
Lockout Lockout Productions Pty Ltd
Mahatma - The Great Soul Prasar Bharati, Doordarshan, Broadcasting Corporation of India
Micas and Salazar SIC
Nation on Film - Birth of Local Radio BBC
Ochberg's Orphans Rainmaker Films
Paisley - From Protest to Power UTV
Panorama: Scientology & Me BBC
Paris Hilton, Inc. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Pope John Paul: A Saint For Our Times Dreamtime Entertainment
Rampant: How a City Stopped a Plague Chapman Pictures Pty Ltd
Return of the Ring UTV
Royal Children Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Shorn in 1944 (Tondues en 44) Les Productions du Lagon
siar sna 60'daí Gaelmedia
Sol Y Sombra   Alisa Productions
Tammuz G.N Communication
The Blair Years Juniper
The Diana Years MAP TV
The Eternal Optimist - Robin Eames UTV
The Family That Defied Hitler MAP TV
The First Men In Space Laengengrad Filmproduktion GmbH
The Great Killer ina
The Lost World Of The Raj BBC Birmingham
The Patriot Game AkaJava Films
The Pound in Your Pocket BBC Parliament
The Putin System Films Grain de Sable
The Rape Of Nanking POINT DU JOUR
The Secret Life of the Motorway BBC
The Selling Game Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Supreme Court Thirteen/WNET New York
The War Florentine Films
Timewatch: Hijack BBC Vision
t-Óstal na mbád Mikey O Flatharta Darba
Troid Fuilteach Kelcom Ltd. t/a Fastnet Films
Under the Fascist Yoke Televisio de Catalunya
Westerbork Girl   DNU FILM
What Did You Do In The Great War Daddy Testimony Films
Windscale: The Biggest Nuclear Disaster   BBC
     
iv) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Entertainment Production

 

100 Films & A Funeral Markham Street Films Inc.  
Bremner, Bird & Fortune Series 11 Vera Productions Ltd
British Film Forever   BBC Entertainment - Manchester
Doctor Who Confidential BBC Entertainment
Elton John: Me Myself and I Monkey
Happy Birthday BAFTA ITV Productions
Memoirs of a Cigarette Pett Television Ltd
Perfect Night In Objective Productions
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story Automat Pictures
That's What I Call Television Unique TV
The Return Of 'Allo 'Allo! Objective North Ltd
UTV Rewind UTV
     
v) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Arts, Music or Drama Production

 

All About Abigail's Party BBC Entertainment
Arena: Underground Lone Star Productions
BBC Arena: Bob Marley- Exodus '77 BBC
BBC Arena: Dylan's Folk: The Pure, the Bad and the Holy BBC
Brasil, Brasil BBC - Music Entertainment
Car Men NPS
Classic Britannia BBC TV Four
Guernica, Portrait of War Televisio de Catalunya
Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl Seventh Art Productions
Highway World - living, changing, growing Martinhansschmitt.com
Marcello Mastroianni: the appeal of an ordinary man Rai Teche
Nuclear Secrets BBC
Once Upon A Time In New York BBC - Music Entertainment
Psychedelic Revolution ´67 Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH
Soul Britannia BBC Music Entertainment
The Relief of Belsen Hardy & Sons
The Seven Ages of Rock BBC
The Worst Journey in the World Tiger Aspect Productions
Yehudi Menuhin - The Swiss Years Mesch & Ugge AG
Young Elvis in Colour Darlow Smitshon Productions
     
vi) Award for Best Use of Wildlife and Natural History Stock Footage
Animal Crackers Content Mint/Absolutely Wild Visuals
Peter Scott: A Passion for Nature Available Light Productions Ltd
The Nature of Things: Game Over: Conservation in Kenya Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
     
vii) Award for Best Use of Sports Footage
Aonach Tailteann Union Films
Derry City FC: A European Odyssey Northland Broadcast
Jack & Gary Talkin' Golf IMG Media
Jack & Lee Talkin' Golf IMG Media
Jim Nantz Remembers Augusta - The 1960 Masters Jim Nantz Productions
Laochra Gael Nemeton
Nation on Film: Caribbean Cricket BBC TV Birmingham
Time Shift: A Game of Two Eras 1957 Vs 2007   BBC Bristol  
UTV Focus - The Cougars UTV
     
viii) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Advertisement

 

BDFL Promo British Defence Film Library
Diesel 78: "Learn Disco Dance" Hexstatic
Earthjustice: "Top speed 2.0" Earthjustice
Ford Focus: "Lion Man" Quatre zero un/Framepool
France Info: "Toujours premiers sur l'info" VIEW
John West Salmon: "Flying Fish Tackle" John Fife / Grey Advertising - Australia
landmine.de Wonderboys Film GmbH/Framepool  
Peugeot: "Hippos" Peugeot / Framepool
Slingbox Underwired
Tata Motors: Todo es Relativo Segun Ovideo
Toyota: "Panda" Perfect Cut C.A./Framepool
     
ix) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Short Production www.rte.ie/libraries
3 Minute Wonder - The Recycled History of Recycling Honest Injun Films Ltd
A Simple Piece of Cloth Venom Productions
Don't Watch That, Watch This Series C Vera Productions Ltd
Edwardian Season (Trailer) Red Bee Media
Heroes Unmasked BBC
Matchbox 20: "How Far We've Come" (pop video) Partizan
Support Lesbiens: "She´s So Complicated" (pop video) Sirena Film
World's Funniest Videos Media Entertainment Group International
     
x) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Corporate, Training or Education Production
BBC Black Archives BBC Entertainment Manchester / English Regions  
Clowns without Borders (Payasos sin Fronteras) Getty Images
Dummy IMG Media Corporate Films & Commercials
KNTV Philosophy   Tern TV
Living Political Ideas - The Iranian Revolution of 1979 (Open University) Angel Eye Media
Nokia: Fourth Screen Jack Morton Worldwide
VI Anniversary: Calidad Certificada - The Expansion McCann Worldgroup
Why Sustainable Investment? Living Cinema
     
xi) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Feature Length Production
American Experience: Oswald's Ghost Robert Stone Productions, Ltd.
Chicago 10 C7 Films
Children Of The Sun Lama Films
Golda's Balcony East-West Ventures, L.L.C.
In The Shadow Of The Moon DOX Productions
Joe Strummer; The Future is Unwritten Nitrate Strummer Ltd
Joy Division Hudson Productions/Brown Owl Films
My Enemy's Enemy (Mon Meilleur Ennemi) Yalla Productions
My Kid Could Paint That Passion Pictures
Nanking Agape Partners Multimedia LLC
Scott Walker 30 Century Man Missing in Action Films & Plastic Palace Pictures
Six Days In June Instinct Films  
Sputnik Mania Varied Directions Inc.
Terror's Advocate (L'Avocat de la Terreur) Yalla Productions
The honour of the wronged (El Honor de las Injurias) No Hay Penas SL
The Kingdom Universal Pictures
We Want Roses Too (VogliamoAnche Le Rose) MIR Cinematografica
     
xii) Award for Best Use of Footage on Non-television Platforms
Advent Calendar on website UTV Internet
BFI Mediatheque BFI
Film Australia Digital Learning   Film Australia
Focus on Film The National Archives
Moving History - 60 Years of Film Australia Film Australia
Open Vault WGBH Educational Foundation
The Animals Film 25th Anniversary Edition Beyond the Frame Ltd.
The North West Film Archive The North West Film Archive
     
xiii) Award for Archive Restoration or Preservation Project

 

Documentary Centenaries BFI National Archive
Jim Nantz Remembers Augusta - The 1960 Masters Jim Nantz Productions / Legend Films
Jodorowsky Remastered 6 Disc Boxset Dubbs & Eyeframe/Tartan Films
Mairtin O Cadhain sa gCnocan Glas Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ)
Stone Mad: A Portrait of Seamus Murphy Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ)
The Lodger (1927) Granada Media Group / Ascent Media Group
The Open Championship Official Film 1970 R&A Archive / IMG Media Archive / Blue
Turn of the Tide - Liverpool's Emergence as an Industrial Power (1967) North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University / PresTech Film Laboratories Ltd  

 

SHORTLISTED NOMINATIONS IN THE ABOVE CATEGORIES WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN MARCH 2008

xiv) The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award
xv) Award for Footage Library of the Year
xvi) Award for Lifetime Achievement

The individual winners of these 3 categories will be announced at the Awards ceremony 21 May, 2008.