INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF LIFETSYLE - 2007

Dates of festival: 8-14 OCTOBER 2007.

- Programs - Jury-members - Presentors - Projection order - Call for entries -
- Entry Regulation - Entry Form - Sponsors - Prizes and certificates - Thanks -

Jury-members

Péter Olajos - Chairman

Greeting

As a European representative dealing with the natural and environmental changes of Europe, the climate change of our planet and with sustainable development, as well as a private individual, feeling responsibility for these, as the chairman of the Szolnok International Film Festival it gives me a great pleasure to greet you this year here.

It is the eighth time to expect film makers and viewers to Szolnok to Annual Film Festival. In the row of festivals this will be the 4th time where scientific educational films get a leading role. This year in the centre of the festival there are films about our life-style as well as films made about the protection of our environment, and nature surrounding us.

The rich program is provided by film -makers from 15 different countries, who represent themselves with 122 creations. In addition to this in the explanatory screenings there will be 20 more special films shown.

Visitors to our Festival may have got used to be able to attend rich cultural and educational programs and exhibitions. During the Festival there will be a number of excellent lectures and high level professional workshops. This year we are hoping to deeply examine such important questions of present like how could film-makers contribute to a more environment aware, more liveable Europe, and what the media and education can do in order to approach these purposes as well s what social responsibility can be assumed to the movie art these days. How much could

Science-recognised alternative medicine gain space among those leading a healthy life and among those desiring to be cured, and how does future look like for homeopathy and kineziology or even the for the science of acupuncture looking back to a past of thousands of years? Can we be efficient enough to plant the demand for a healthy life and environmental awareness in young people or are we building a more and more unhealthy and polluted -and consequentially sicker society?

For those coming to the festival I wish a content, useful entertainment time, and for the competitors I wish a beneficial, professional fulfilment, and great success.

Péter Olajos
European Parliament Representative
Environmental, Public Health, and Food Safety Committee
Committee Dealing with Global Climate Change

Biography: Peter Olajos was born in 1968 in Budapest. He graduated from the University of Veszprém as a manager/chemical engineer, after that he received a degree in the European Technical University (Paris) and in the Technical University of Budapest as engineer specialising in European Environmental studies. Since 1994 he has been working as a politician in the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), first as a Parliament -secretary (1994-1996), then the manager of Presidential Office, later from 1998 manager of administration, finally party-manager(1999-2000). Between 1998 and 2004 a member in the Board of Hungarian Radio delegated by the Parliament.
Since 1996 he has been the leader of the European Integration Office of the Hungarian Democratic Forum. His area of expertise is the environmental protection and environmental policy of the European Union, as well as the renewable resources - he Greennovation. Since 2001 he has been the editor of "Ma és Holnap" (Today and Tomorrow) an EU magazine on environmental and region development.
In the 2004 Parliamentary elections he got a seat from the MDF list. His main committee in the European Parliament is the Environmental, Public Health, and Food Safety Committee. He is the deputy of the European Parliament's Sustainable Development Group. In May 2007 he was elected to be a member of the ac-hoc committee of the European parliament dealing with climate change

Petrovszki Zoltán

I have a garden. Probably, because I was born in the Great Plain, and probably, because my parents left it to me.

The Starry sky can only be a consideable and astonishing sight from a garden. (Probably because of this) I was motivated to continue librarian studies. - right in Debrecen.

A good librarian gets a useful matrix from his predecessors, and through this they can find ways in past and present culture, but soon wants to ask questions - to learn about the future. - This is how I got to the comparative culture theories int he beginning of the 80's.

These few years were spend in learning about mass culture, and directed me towards film sciense. I became a guest lecturer int he Szeged Higher Education Institution, got married and worked at different film companies, and later I switched to the electronic media area. From the beginning of the ninteties I became the editor, later program director of Duna Television, was in the jury of National and International Filmfestivals here and abroad - and I planted trees.

The garden is important for me.
I have two daughters, Borbála and Dorottya.

Petrovszki Zoltán
(1955-)

András Lányi

Born in 1948. Writer, philosopher, university professor. Between 1974 and 1989 he directed a number of feature films. A founding member of the Film Association; initiator of Hungarian media-education. His works of literature started to appear from the end of the eighties. His studies attempt to introduce the utopistic view especially from political and philosophical sides. He teaches at different universities, one of them is the Eötvös Lóránt University of Budapest , where he is the adviser of the human ecology department. He is the leader of the public movement called "Élőlánc Magyarországért" (Chain for Hungary)

Gyenes Károly

Resumé

• 1971-87: Hungarian Television, School - TV (Editor- reporter) Mathematical, philosophical, pedagogical, educational programmes.
• 1983-88: Coordination of Pedagogical programmes in the National Institution of Pedagogy, and in the Educational Research Institiution.
• From 1985 making nature films in the Natura Department of Hungarian Television.
• 1987-88: MTV Program - edition department, editor.
• 1988-1993: TV2, Editor in chief.
• 1993-2003: management of the re-formed Natura Department.
• 2005-től: Management of Educational Department.

• 1971-84: Teachers' forum
• 1986-88: And a million more steps (18x45 min)
• 1990-93: Wheels and steps (26x45 min)
• 1996-97: A land to walk (24x30 min)
• 1999-2002: Nature wants to speak up! (330x1 min)
• 1999-2003: The blue ribbon of Europe, the Danube (28x26 min)
• 2005-2007: Golden man, choose knowledge! (Natura)

Katalin Hatvani

I am Katalin Hatvani, teacher. I have been teaching communication in foreign language for about twelve years. For me the point is the message, and whether we can find the agent where the expression of our thoughts will be comprehendable for the audiance.

Because I only know as much as a spectator about the film indusry, I am trying to view the films from the point, that I can see how much the maker made it easy for me to comprehend their thoughts.

- Programs - Jury-members - Presentors - Projection order - Call for entries -
- Entry Regulation - Entry Form - Sponsors - Prizes and certificates - Thanks -