Diana’s List Project Awarded in Greece
16.07.2010.
At a recently closed pitching workshop for documentary projects StoryDoc, held in Corfu, the new documentary project by Hulahop, “Diana’s List” won one out of four presented awards. The project was presented in Greece by director Dana Budisavljević and assistant producer Miljenka Čogelja.
The story of a journal after 60 years of absolute oblivion discovering details of an action undertaken during World War II by the Austrian Diana Budisavljević won a €1,000 scholarship. Although born in Innsbruck, Diana Budisavljević moved to Zagreb after her wedding. Completely alone, independent of all institutions, helped only by a group of citizens, she launched a charity saving 12,000 Serbian children from safe death in Ustasha camps. When the war ended, her act was forgotten and she returned with her husband to her native Innsbruck, where she died in 1978.
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The StoryDoc pitching workshop is intended for documentary films from Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries. It was launched in association with EDN, European Documentary Network, Documentary Campus and Greek Film Centre, supported by the MEDIA programme. It is divided into two parts, the second being held 8-10 December in Athens.
The workshop presented 24 projects from Greece, Germany, England, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Scotland, Italy, France, Palestine, Israel and Croatia.
The awards were presented after three-day work with 16 tutors and a short presentation in front of all workshop participants. The scholarships amounting to €1,000 was granted to three documentaries, whereas one project got the opportunity to be presented to 45 TV editors at the Documentary Campus workshop in Leipzig.
In addition to “Diana’s List”, other awarded projects were “Flying Food”, portraying excessively caring Greek mothers raising generations upon generations of incompetent sons to whom they send food abroad even in their late 30s, and the Palestine film “Waiting for You”, a tragic family tale by a director who wishes to reunite with his family at least on film, if not in real life. The project presented at Documentary Campus in Leipzig is the English documentary “The Runner”, about a marathon man, an activist who wants to tell the world the story of his homeland, the West Sahara, almost 40 years under Moroccan occupation.