Cannes

The winner of the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award 2010 for Best Screenplay from Central and Eastern Europe was announced at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. In addition to the grand prize, the jury also decided to give the 2010 Special Mention Award to young Czech writer Irena Hejdová.

By the decision of Advisory Board members: Sandy Lieberson, Manfred Schmidt, Antonio Saura, Dariusz Jablonski and ScripTeast Heads of Studies: Tom Abrams and Christian Routh, the Award was given to the script The Day of Chocolate by Jacek P. Bławut (Poland).
The Advisory Board also decided to give the ScripTeast 2010 Special Mention Award to the script Memories of My Heart by Irena Hejdová (Czech Republic). The Advisory Board explained their decision with the following statement: „The writer has managed the very difficult task of transforming a complex narrative literary work into an ac-cessible and emotionally powerful film screenplay. She has taken courageous decisions in adapting the for-mat, and the result is a script that promises to hold the audience's attention from start to finish. She has also managed the considerable feat of making the reader feel that they can connect and identify with the convin-cing portrayals of the Mongolian characters presented in the exotic landscape of the story."

The following scripts, representing 9 countries of Eastern and Central Europe have been competing for the prize:

WHITE ELEPHANT, Maciej Wszelaki (Poland)
THE RETURN, Maciej Pieprzyca (Poland)
THE DAY OF CHOCOLATE, Jacek P. Bławut (Poland)
THE JUDGMENT, Stephan Komandarev and Marin Damyanov (Bulgaria)
RIDERS, Janis Vingris (Latvia)
RADIOGRAM, Rouzie Hassanova (Bulgaria)
POLYSTYRENE, Zuzana Belková (Slovakia)
MEMORIES OF MY HEART, Irena Hejdová (Czech Republic)
BURNED, Hanna Slak (Slovenia)
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS, Gábor Ferenczi and Can Togay (Hungary)
BREAKING NEWS, Ana Agopian and Iulia Rugina (Romania)
AURORA, Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper (Lithuania)

ScripTeast is organized by Independent Film Foundation with the support of the Media Programme of the European Union, National Centre for Culture in Poland, Polish Film Institute and Apple Film Production,and in co-operation with the European Film Academy, Producers Network, ACE - Atelier du Cinema Europeen, e-Talenta, Final Draft and festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Karlovy Vary.

For further information: http://www.scripteast.pl/