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The Cracow Film FestivalThe Cracow Film Festival is one of Europe's oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. It has been organised year after year since 1961. It was in Cracow that the Polish movie makers makers such as Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wojciech Wiszniewski, Andrzej Fidyk and Marcel Lozinski began their career. It was also here that the directors of animated films, including Ryszard Czekala, Jerzy Kucia, Julian Antoniszczak, Piotr Dumala and Zbigniew Rybczynski, winner of the Oscar Academy Award for the film Tango, made there debut. Yet, such renowned documentary and animated film makers were not the only ones to participate and win prizes in Krakow, for the international festival laureates included also numerous artists who made their names as feature film directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Zoltan Huszarik, Jaromil Jires, Claude Lelouch, Patrice Leconte, Mike Leigh and the recent Oscar laureate, Jan Sverak. Since three years the Festival grants an international life achievement award, called the Dragon of Dragons. Its first laureate was Bohdan Kosinski, Polish documentary maker, in 1999 the Prize was awarded to the classic of Polish animation, Jan Lenica. In 2000 the Dragon of Dragons Special Prize went to the French documentary maker Raymond Depardon. And the laureate of 2001 was Jan Svankmajer, 2002 Werner Herzog. The unique character of the Cracow festival derives not only from the programme of the competition screenings, the Dragon and Hobby Horse prizes awarded by an international and Polish jury, the Prix UIP Cracow, the FIPRESCI and the FICC awards or numerous other prizes granted outside festival regulations, but also from the programme of accompanying events. See also: other film festivals, External links *The Cracow Film Festival Official website
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