 Cinema Verite Prizes 2008. |
Cinema Verite Prizes 2008
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 SM la Reine Noor de Jordanie. |
| SM la Reine Noor de Jordanie |
 Euzhan Palcy & Lillian Thuram. |
| Euzhan Palcy & Lillian Thuram |
 Joel Soler. |
| Joel Soler |
 Discours de Rama Yade (clôture des rencontres). |
| Rama Yade |
Meg Ryan.
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| Meg Ryan |
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| CINEMA VERITE HONORARY AWARD 2008 |
NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PEACE, Pr. WANGARI MAATHAI (Kenya)
Environmental activist, Wangari Maathai founded the ‘Green Belt’ movement in 1977, a grassroots NGO which has planted over 40 million trees across Kenya to prevent soil erosion. In 2002 Wangari Maathai was elected to Parliament when the National Rainbow Coalition, which she represented, defeated the ruling party the Kenya African National Union.
Since 2003, she has been Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife. She founded the Mazingira Green Party of Kenya in 2003.
In 2004, she was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to democracy and to peace. |
 Wangari Maathai. |
| CINEMA VERITE 2008 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD |
ADEL IMAM (Egypte)
Adel Imam, Egyptian born, is one of the most important actors in the Middle East – he has appeared in over 100 movies as well as having an active career in theater. Film is a medium through which he can explore his political convictions in a comic way and transport his message to a broad audience. His films The Terrorist (1991) and more recently, The Yacoubian Building (2006) have propelled him to fame as a socially and politically active screen actor. In January 2000, the United Nations appointed him Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR. Since his appointment, Adel Imam has worked tirelessly for the cause of refugees and in opposition to religious extremism and political corruption. |
 Yamina Benguigui et Adel Iman. |
| CINEMA VERITE 2008 INSPIRATIONAL PRIZE (FICTION) |
ERIN GRUWELL (USA)
Erin Gruwell is an American teacher who has worked in inner city schools. She succeeded, against the odds, in motivating her students to write about their lives and to read books of other young people who wrote during periods of war and political unrest. Through this method, she created an educational environment of tolerance and succeeded in promoting intercultural relationships.
She founded organization ‘The Freedom Writers Foundation’ in 1998, which spreads the Freedom Writing method throughout the world and promotes tolerance and understanding amongst people. In 1999, she wrote a book based on her experiences as a teacher called The Freedom Writers’ Diary which was the basis for the film Freedom Writers (2007) starring Hilary Swank. |
ERIN GRUWELL. |
| CINEMA VERITE 2008 PRIZE, COMMITMENT |
EUZHAN PALCY (France)
Having read the Joseph Zobel’s novel Rue Cases Nègres that explores Martinique in the thirties, Euzhan Palcy discovered her vocation : to become a filmmaker who would give a voice to the Black Community. Her success was immediate. When she was just 24, she adapted Rue Cases Nègres for cinema. The result was a film that won seventeen international film awards. In her other cinematic projects, Euzhan Palcy has paid homage to the life and actions of Aimé Césaire – she has directed several films documenting his constant struggle for black cultural heritage. In 1994, she was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite medal and in 2004, she received the Legion of Honor. She is the first woman of African descent to direct a film for a major Hollywood studio with the Oscar-nominated A Dry White Season (1989) starring Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon. She considers her role, as a film director, is to shed light on situations to encourage intercultural understanding. |
 EUZHAN PALCY. |
| CINEMA VERITE 2008 PRIZE, SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS CAMERA |
HANY ABU-ASSAD (Palestine)
After six years of studying in the Netherlands, Hany Abu-Hassad returned to his Native Palestine where he worked on a television documentary for English television. His film Rana’s Wedding (2002) was presented at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2006, his film Paradise Now (2005) won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and it also received an Oscar Nomination in the same category earning him the honor of being the first Palestinian director to be nominated for an Academy Award. |
Hany Abu Hassad.
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