Miha Knific of Ljubljana (Slovenia), the first international winner of the Show-Fest Best Film award, will be travelling to Australia later this year to take advantage of the in-kind production support he has won.
The VIP judging panel at the Show-Fest International festival on Monday, 16 August gave the highest score to the dystopian sci-fi from Slovenia titled Lovec oblakov (Cloud Catcher), making the film the first international winner of Show-Fest’s Best Film award.
Congratulations to the screen adaptor and director Miha Knific and producer Janez Kovič. NAFA must also thank editor Blaž Čadež and production contact Anja Kuhar for their assistance across continents in the preparations for the DCI-DCP projection of their film.
As winner of Best Film for Lovec oblakov, Knific became eligible for the following prizes totalling AU$5500 in value:
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$1500 in cash from LANNI.com and Halyucinations Studios,
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$1000 worth of lighting hire from Xytech Australia,
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$1000 worth of location sound recording from DX Sound, and
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$2000 worth of DCP mastering from DCP Australia.
In an amazing coincidence, Knific is actually able to use the in-kind prizes, right here in Australia! He is currently shooting a feature film titled Vztrajanje (Perseverance) that requires about two days in Australia, and had been planning on doing so towards the end of 2010.
Knific will now use the prize money to assist with the travel here, as well as use the in-kind support for the shoot.
Short Biography
Knific on the set of Lovec oblakovMiha Knific is a director and screenwriter. He has made short and feature films, animations, music clips, and commercials. He also runs his own production company Start Film Production.
Miha was born in 1976 in Kranj, Slovenia and has a bachelor’s degree in sculpture (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia) and a master’s degree in video media (Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden).
He has directed the feature film En Natt (Let Me Sleep), shorts such as Lovec oblakov (Cloud Catcher) and Silver Skin, and documentaries such as From East. He is currently shooting a feature titled Vztrajanje (Perseverance) and two more are in development. The features in development are One Summer Lost and Die Freiheit (Freedom).
In his work Miha analyses extreme situations and the concept of freedom within these situations. He seeks out worlds that fatally change an individual, his view of the world, and the world itself.
[Miha is available for interviews. Contact NAFA on info@nafa.net.au.]