Nature Film Festival Prize Winner Announced

The film, which took Mosonyi four years to make, shows the rarest species of the Carpathian Basin.

 

Festival organiser Ferenc Csabai called the film ?a work of art?.

 

A total of 46 films were submitted by 31 filmmakers this year, including 37 from Hungary, five from Vojvodina, three from Transylvania and one from France. Almost half of the films were made by amateurs.

 

Csodakút is the only Hungarian-language international nature film festival in the Carpathian basin, said Csabai. It is the successor of a festival previously held in Pusztaszer in southern Hungary, he added.

 

Since the festival has grown in size, it moved to nearby Kanjiža, or Magyarkanizsa in Hungarian, a town on the banks of the River Tisza which has sufficient accommodations for festival-goers, he said.

 

Csabai said the proliferation of HD technology had enabled amateurs to create work of increasingly high quality. At the same time, the lack of funding is also noticeable among filmmakers: whereas in recent years, the focus was on certain animals or natural phenomenon, this year?s programme includes more films about regions and landscapes which have a smaller budget, he added.

 

The main prize includes a 1,000-euro purse from the local council of Kanjiža.

 

Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)