‘An Owl, a Garden and the Writer,’ ‘Victim,’ ‘Tina & Megi’ Among Winning Projects at Karlovy Vary
Will Tizard ContributorInnovative, diverse and personal stories won the awards of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Eastern Promises industry program on Monday, taking honors in three sections focused on emerging filmmakers in both narrative and docu genres.Karlovy Vary industry head Hugo Rosak said the decision by Eastern Promises to allow fiction and non-fiction films to compete alongside each other – a new approach that parallels the fest’s newly reformatted main competition category – is based on the premise that “both categories, despite their differences, possess the same artistic value.”Jurors from a host of film biz and development organizations gave the Works in Progress Post-Production Development Award, which funds