International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Plus Camera
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International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Camera is a film festival held in Kraków, Poland, with up to 400 screenings annually, seminars, international stars, guests and jury. It is the first event of its kind in the country based on creative dialog between world experts representing other independent film competitions such as the Sundance Film Festival and CineVegas, as well as festivals in Bangkok, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Busan, Dubai, Kolkata, Los Angeles, Reykjavík, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Venice. It is a festival of festivals with official backing from the City of Kraków with dozens of international sponsors and prominent partners including Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Lufthansa, Mercedes-Benz and Sony. In 2008–2014 the official name was "Off Plus Camera", since 2015 it is "PKO Off Camera".
The festival consists of film screenings in studio movie theatres located within the Old Town. The organizer of the event is the Society for Independent and Similar Arts Off Camera (Stowarzyszenie Sztuki Niezależnej i Nie Tylko Off Camera) as one of the city's "Six Senses" (Sześć Zmysłów) programme of sponsoring artistic life in Kraków. The Festival organizers invite young filmmakers from all over the world, directors, actors and film industry experts to meet the audience and take advantage of getting their feedback in person. Szymon Miszczak is the Director of the Festival and Ania Trzebiatowska is the Artistic Director. Off Plus Camera program showcases newest work by world-class directors as well as retrospectives of the most distinguished artists of independent cinema from the past.
The most important event of the Off Plus Camera Festival is its Main Competition named "Making Way" (Wytyczanie drogi). In it, the films from all over the world compete for the Kraków Film Award in the sum of $100,000 presented by the President of the City of Kraków. The main criteria for the rating by the festival programmers are the quality and the artistic merit of the films, the use of traditional and avant-garde filming techniques as well as the directors' sensibilities and artistic maturity in their productions.
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