The Blacks wins Crossing Europe in Linz
Croatian film The Blacks [+see also:
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The festival’s newly established Best European Documentary Award went to Erik Gandini’s Videocracy [+see also:
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Severine Cormasuz’s Animal Heart [+see also:
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The Local Artist Award worth €6,000 donated by the Federal Province of Upper Austria and Synchro Film, Video und Audio Bearbeitung GmbH from Vienna was shared by Michaela Mandel for the stop-motion short Sinister Sisters Slaughterhouse and Ella Raidel for Slam Video Maputo.
The next edition of the festival will take place a week earlier in 2011 due to Easter holidays.
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