Variety
Jan 30 2007
Berlin honors Mina, Meszaros
Golden Camera also to go to Holloway, Moritz
By ED MEZABERLIN – The Berlin Film Festival is honoring Italian
documentary filmmaker Gianni Mina, Hungarian director Marta Meszaros
and film journos Ron Holloway and his wife Dorothea Moritz with this
year’s Berlinale Camera award.
The Berlinale bestows the prize on film personalities or institutions
to whom it is particularly indebted as an expression of appreciation.
Mina’s most recent work, "Travelling With Che Guevara," followed the
making of Walter Salles’ "The Motorcycle Diaries," focusing on
Alberto Granado, whose real-life travels with Guevara are chronicled
in the film. Pic screened in Panorama in 2004.
The Berlinale will screen two of Mina’s works from 1987 following the
award presentation to Mina on Feb. 11, "Cuban Memories: Un dia con
Fidel" and "Cuban Memories: Fidel cuenta el Che."
Meszaros received a Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 1975 for her
drama, "Orokbefogadas" (Adoption), marking her international
breakthrough. Her debut feature film, 1968’s "Eltavozott nap" (The
Girl), was the first Hungarian feature film to be directed by a
woman. Pic will screen Feb. 13 following the award’s presentation.
Holloway, who also has worked as a documentary maker, has been
associated with the Berlinale for the past 30 years, contributing to
the diversification of the program and, with wife Moritz, founded the
English language journal "Kino German Film & International Reports."
Moritz, an actress, has been selecting films for the Berlinale for 19
years.
Holloway’s documentary "Parajanov – a Requiem," about the late
Armenian director Sergej Parajanov, will screen on the occasion of
the award presentation on Feb. 16.
All the Berlinale Camera ceremonies will take place at Berlin’s
Filmpalast.