Prizewinners at the first World Road Safety Film Festival
Geneva, 24 March 2006 -- On 23 March, the Palais des Nations
hosted the first World Road Safety Film Festival on the occasion of the
48th session of the UNECE Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1).
The festival was organized by UNECE in cooperation with LaserEurope.
“This is the first time that such a festival has been held at the
Palais des Nations and it illustrates one of the major concerns of our
member States – road safety, said José Capel Ferrer,
Director of the UNECE Transport Division, opening the Festival.
Films were shown from over 30 countries representing all regions of the
world. Selected by an international jury composed of experts in communication
for road safety, the films were classified in the following five categories:
communication and campaigns, education for road safety and driver training,
risk prevention for professional drivers, road safety innovations, and
television broadcasts.
The jury, chaired by Luis Franco (Montevideo), was composed of Angelo
Ferlazzo (Rome), Rohit Baluja (New Delhi), Martine-Sophie Fouvez (European
Conference of Ministers of Transport) and Georges van Aerschot (Belgium).
The prizes were presented to the winners by Marek Belka, UNECE Executive
Secretary.
In the category Communication, first prize was awarded to Denmark for
the film «Dead Man Walking», by Jonas Arnby. In the category
Education, first prize went to Israel for the cartoon film for children
entitled «Zoo on wheels», by Einat Bilitzki. In the Professionals
category, first prize went to «Portrait of Claude Nurdin »,
by Fouad Benhamou. First prize in the Innovations category went to the
Develter driving simulator. In the TV broadcast category first prize was
awarded to «Secours pour un cerveau câblé pour ça »,
prepared by Romain Cipière for the town of Aubagne in France.
The jury awarded special prizes to films from the Sultanate of Oman,
Morocco and Cambodia.
For further information please contact:
José Capel Ferrer, Director,
Marie-Noëlle Poirier or Christopher Smith
Transport Division
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0) 22 917 2400, 917 3259 or 917 3298
Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 0039
E-mail: [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Website: http://www.unece.org/trans/roadsafe/filmfestival.html
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