Buy your tickets for the Focal International Awards 2017 (deadline 19th May)
The excitement is building – who will be the winners at the 14th FOCAL International Awards celebrating all that is best in the footage and commercial audio-visual industry?
Putting Footage in the Spotlight…
Finalists for the 14th annual FOCAL International Awards include some of the highest-profile productions released around the world in 2016 including Ron Howard’s crowd-pleaser, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years; Werner Herzog’s other worldly Into the Inferno; O.J.: Made in America; and restoration of Abel Gance’s masterpiece epic, Napoleon.
Set to take place on 25th May, 2017 at the Lancaster London Hotel, the FOCAL International Awards recognise producers, directors, researchers and other creative media professionals for excellence in the use and preservation of stock and archival footage.
Sixteen awards will be presented in total, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, won this year by pioneering producer-director Serge Viallet. In a career spanning almost thirty years, Serge has worked with multiple archives across the world on many award-winning and meticulously crafted documentaries. He has been lecturing on archive documentation, research and use in film at Sorbonne University since 2012.
TICKETS FOR THE FOCAL INTERNATIONAL AWARDS CEREMONY THURSDAY 25TH MAY MUST BE BOOKED BY FRIDAY 19TH MAY.
TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST, come join us for the glitzy pre-reception and enjoy a Shutterstock Cocktail before the three-course dinner, followed by the Awards ceremony and take advantage of the networking opportunities of the after party over a few drinks.
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* Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes – 1895 Films (USA)
* Hitler’s Games – Berlin 1936 – Roche Productions (France)
* Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan – Point du Jour (France)
Best Use of Footage in a History Feature
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* Letters From Baghdad – Letters From Baghdad Ltd / Between the Rivers Productions LLC (USA/UK/France)
* School Revolution 1918-1939 – Les Films Du Poisson (France)
* The Tragedy of the International Brigades – Kuiv Productions (France)
Sponsored by Screenocean
* Asunder – Blanche Pictures (UK)
* Saddam Goes to Hollywood – Mentorn Scotland (UK)
* The War Show – Fridthjof Film (Denmark)
Sponsored by FremantleMedia
* How Quizzing Got Cool: Brains of Britain – BBC Studios (UK)
* Les Dawson Forever – ITV Studios / Shiver (UK)
* When Magic Goes Horribly Wrong – Crackit Productions (UK)
Best Use of Footage in an Arts Production
Sponsored by Film London
* Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont: Reel Rivals of the Cinema – Program33 (France)
* Eat That Question – Frank Zappa in His Own Words – Les Films Du Poisson, UFA Fiction / Sony Pictures Classics (France/USA)
* Saddam Goes to Hollywood – Mentorn Scotland (UK)
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* The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years – White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment (USA/UK)
* The People’s History Of Pop – 7Wonder Productions (UK)
* Tom Jones’ 1950s: The Decade that made me – BBC Music Television (UK)
Sponsored by ITV Sport Archive
* 1966: A Nation Remembers – Blakeway North Television (UK)
* George Best: All by Himself – Fine Point Films (UK)
* O.J: Made in America – ESPN Films and Laylow Films (USA)
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* America’s National Parks at 100 – Smithsonian Channel (USA)
* Into the Inferno – Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film (UK/Germany)
* Zoo Quest in Colour – BBC Natural History Unit (UK)
Best Use of Footage on Other Platforms
Sponsored by Visual Data Services
* Guinness Story Of John Hammond – Hazel May Ltd / AMV BBDO (UK)
* Lurpak ‘Game On, Cooks’ – The Director Studio / Wieden & Kennedy (UK)
* Terence Donovan: Speed of Light – Dog and Duck Films (UK)Best Use of Footage in a Cinema Release
Sponsored by British Pathe
* Bobby Sands: 66 Days – Fine Point Films (UK)
* Eat That Question – Frank Zappa in His Own Words – Les Films Du Poisson, UFA Fiction / Sony Pictures Classics (France/USA)
* The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years – White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment (USA/UK)
Sponsored by Prasad
* 1912-1992: 80 Years of Olympic Films Restored – International Olympic Committee (Switzerland)
* Cinecolor Restorations of Canadian Pacific (1949) and The Cariboo Trail (1950) – TLEFilms Film Restoration & Preservation Services (Germany)
* Zoo Quest in Colour (1950s) – BBC Natural History Unit (UK)
Sponsored by Pinewood Studios Group
* Napoleon (1927 Dir. Abel Gance) – BFI National Archive (UK)
* King of Jazz (1930 Dir. John Murray Anderson) – NBCUniversal (USA)
* Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) (1968 Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) – The Film Foundation/Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata (Italy)
The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award
Sponsored by AP Archive
* Nina Krstic (USA) O.J.: Made in America
* Véronique Nowak (France) School Revolution 1918-1939
* Rich Remsberg (USA) The Bandit
Footage Employee of the Year
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* Kieran O’Leary (Ireland) IFI Irish Film Archive
* Robin James (UK) Getty Images / BBC
* Simon Wood & ITN Source team (UK) ITN Source
* ITN Source UK
* Reelin’ in the Years Productions USA
