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PRESS RELEASE Photo: Katriina Mäkinen Stockholm, 11th of February 2017 The winners of Tempo Documentary Festival 2017! The winners of the various competitions at Tempo Documentary Festival’s eighteenth edition have now been appointed. During the award ceremony, that took take place on Saturday night at Theater Tre in Stockholm, six awards and three honorable mentions were given in total. Several of the documentaries will be presented during Tempo Documentary Festival’s program on Sunday. Stefan Jarl International Documentary Award Stefan Jarl International Documentary Award is the award for the best international documentary and is presented with the support of the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundat ion. The prize is 2000 euros. Winner I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck

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                                                                                                                           PRESS  RELEASE

                                                                                                                                                                           Photo:  Katriina  Mäkinen  Stockholm,  11th  of  February  2017    

The  winners  of  Tempo  Documentary  Festival  2017!      

The  winners  of  the  various  competitions  at  Tempo  Documentary  Festival’s  eighteenth  edition  have  now  been  appointed.  During  the  award  ceremony,  that  took  take  place  on  Saturday  night  at  Theater  Tre  in  Stockholm,  six  awards  and  three  honorable  mentions  were  given  in  total.  Several  of  the  documentaries  will  be  presented  during  Tempo  Documentary  Festival’s  program  on  Sunday.      Stefan  Jarl  International  Documentary  Award  Stefan  Jarl  International  Documentary  Award  is  the  award  for  the  best  international  documentary  and  is  presented  with  the  support  of  the  Barbro  Osher  Pro  Suecia  Foundat-­‐ion.  The  prize  is  2000  euros.    Winner  I  Am  Not  Your  Negro  by  Raoul  Peck  

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Motivation:  The  Stefan  Jarl  International  Documentary  Award  goes  to  a  film  that  tells  us  a  story  that  is  more  important  today  than  in  a  very  long  time.  It  opens  perspectives  on  how  to  see  things  as  they  are,  of  race  relations  but  also  in  a  deep  meaning  of  what  it  means  to  be  a  human  being,  living  in  a  conflicted  and  complex  world  where  no  easy  solutions  exist.  Director  Raoul  Peck  has  given  us  a  fluid,  personal  work  with  a  message  that  resonates  all  around  the  world  for  those  who  will  listen.        Tempo  Documentary  Award  Tempo  Documentary  Award  is  one  of  Sweden’s  biggest  documentary  film  competitions  where  the  winning  director  is  awarded  with  75  000  kronor.  The  award  is  presented  with  support  from  the  Swedish  Film  Institute  and  the  Influence  Film  Club.    Winner  After  Inez  by  Karin  Ekberg  Motivation:  A  film  that  is  hard  to  see,  hard  to  comprehend,  but  that  breaks  the  silence  and  gives  us  a  deeper  understanding  of  the  human  condition.  A  film  about  loss,  but  above  all  love  that  –  thanks  to  the  filmmaker's  respectful  sense  of  integrity  and  not  least  Denize  and  Philip's  courage  and  generosity  –  leaves  us  with  a  gratitude  to  have  gained  insight  into  something  that  no  one  ever  really  wants  to  understand;  how  one  masters  to  live  with  a  constant  grief.    Honorable  mention  The  traffic  lights  turn  blue  tomorrow  by  Ragnhild  Ekner    Motivation:  For  having  its  very  own  voice,  the  courage  to  be  just  that,  and  a  belief  for  what  is  being  documented.  From  a  time,  a  group  of  people,  a  life  that  many  have  forgotten.  We  salute  the  spontaneity,  when  the  documentary  becomes  art  and  talks  -­‐  about  someone  who  meant  a  lot  to  many.  Intensely  poetic,  painfully  beautiful.    Tempo  Short  Award  Tempo  Short  Award  is  a  competition  for  best  Swedish  short  documentary  where  the  winning  director  is  awarded  with  75  000  SEK.  The  award  is  presented  with  support  from  the  Swedish  Film  Institute  and  Filmregion  Stockholm-­‐Mälardalen.      Winner  Studio  5  by  Axel  Danielson  and  Maximilien  Van  Aertryck      Motivation:  For  an  unmistakable  artistic  expression  that  presents  social  hierarchies  with  a  subtle  humor,  and  makes  us  see  new  creation  with  new  eyes.  The  film  illustrates  our  eerie  distance  with  each  other  and  the  world  around  us.    Honorable  mention  Letters  to  Sweden  by  Salad  Hilowle    Motivation:  An  honorable  mention  to  a  film  by  a  director,  we  want  to  see  more  of.  Flowing  storytelling,  the  inspiring  desire  for  something  and  memorable  words  such  as  “Forget  one’s  origin  –  look  at  someone’s  heart.”  Letter  to  Sweden!    New  Doc  The  prize  consists  of  70  000  SEK,  whereof  30  000  SEK  goes  to  technical  support  and  is  given  to  a  promising  new  documentary  film  director  for  an  upcoming  film  project.  The  New  Doc  award  is  given  in  collaboration  with  Filmbasen/Film  Stockholm,  Film  i  Öst,  

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Filmpool  Jämtland,  FilmCloud/Kultur  i  Väst,  Film  i  Dalarna,  Filmpool  Nord,  Kultur  i  Halland  –  Film.    Winner  One  Ticket  Please  by  Matiss  Kaza    Motivation:  With  this  year’s  New  Doc  award  we  pay  tribute  today  to  a  determined,  passionate  and  almost  unsympathetic  woman  that  lives  by  her  own  rules.  With  sensitive  narrative  and  beautiful  photography,  the  film  keeps  surprising  us.  The  director  allows  the  character  to  unfold  her  life  step-­‐by-­‐step  without  interfering.  Her  life  philosophy  can  be  summarized  in  the  following  words  by  her:  “I  don’t  believe  in  common  sense.  Everything  that  people  call  common  sense  is  learnt  behaviour.”      Honorable  mention:  The  Promise  by  Paula  Gustafsson    Motivation:  With  an  exceptional  ability  to  create  intimacy,  the  director  created  the  warm  love  portrait  of  two  elderly  women.  The  film  provides  a  beautiful  and  painful  glimpse  of  old  age  in  the  proximity  of  death,  and  uncovers  relationships  rarely  seen  on  film.    Tempo  Pitch  Tempo  Pitch  is  the  competition  for  new  documentary  ideas.  The  prize  consists  of        75  000  SEK  in  development  funds.  The  competition  is  organized  in  collaboration  with  Swedish  Television/Documentary,  the  Swedish  Film  Institute/Film  Commissioner  Documentary  and  Filmregion  Stockholm-­‐Mälardalen.    

Winner  The  Witch  Anna  by  Peter  Gerdehag,  Malcolm  Dixelius  and  Zara  Arrehed    Motivation:  The  award  goes  to  a  film  that  does  not  try  to  please  the  crowd  and  gives  insight  into  a  world  that  evokes  both  curiosity  and  fascination  through  an  uncompromi-­‐sing  character  that  had  enough  and  radically  re-­‐creates  her  life.  The  juries  hope,  exactly  like  the  filmmakers,  that  the  award  can  be  used  in  order  to  provide  a  deeper  understan-­‐ding  of  the  family  as  a  constitution  while  portraying  the  main  character’s  quest  for  accep-­‐tance.  The  Tempo  Pitch  2017  goes  to  a  pre-­‐Christian  history  that  aims  to  heal  people  in  our  modern  time.    Short  Dox  Radio  In  the  Short  Dox  Radio  competition,  ten  three-­‐minute  radio  documentaries  compete  for  the  prize  of  5000  SEK.  The  award  was  established  by  Bengt  Bok,  a  professor  of  radio  production  at  the  Stockholm  Academy  of  Dramatic  Arts.    Winner  The  Last  Schnapps  by  Jon  Jordås    Motivation:  For  a  depiction  that  without  sentimentality,  and  in  all  its  simplicity,  tells  a  story  about  existence  itself.  About  death,  and  the  song  of  life.    

Press  contact:    Sara  Henrikson,  +46-­‐72-­‐734  73  59,  [email protected]    

www.tempofestival.se    

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The  18th  edition  of  Tempo  Documentary  Festival  will  take  place  March  6th–12th  at  Victoria,  Bio  Rio,  Filmstaden  Söder,  Biokällan  Märsta  and  Reflexen  theatres,  Hornhuset,  Debaser  Strand,  Barbro,  Moderna  Museet,  Mångkulturellt  Centrum,  Finlandsinstitutet  and  Centrum  för  fotografi.  Tempo  Documentary  Festival  is  the  biggest  festival  dedicated  to  documentary  art  in  Sweden.  Since  its  start  in  1998,  the  festival  has  presented  documentaries  from  all  over  the  world,  which  would  have  not  reached  the  Swedish  audience  otherwise.  Tempo  is  a  unique  forum  for  documentary  work  of  different  genres:  film,  radio,  photography  and  experimental  forms  of  expression.  Tempo  is  also  a  forum  for  the  documentary  industry,  organising  industry  events  such  as  work  in  progress,  workshops,  seminars  and  Tempo  Pitch.