BERLIN — The Berlin Film Festival is honoring Italian documentary filmmaker Gianni Mina, Hungarian director Marta Meszaros and film journos Ron Holloway and his wife Dorothea Moritz with this year's Berlinale Camera award.
The Berlinale bestows the prize on film personalities or institutions to whom it is particularly indebted as an expression of appreciation.
Mina's most recent work, "Travelling With Che Guevara," followed the making of Walter Salles' "The Motorcycle Diaries," focusing on Alberto Granado, whose real-life travels with Guevara are chronicled in the film. Pic screened in Panorama in 2004.
The Berlinale will screen two of Mina's works from 1987 following the award presentation to Mina on Feb. 11, "Cuban Memories: Un dia con Fidel" and "Cuban Memories: Fidel cuenta el Che."
Meszaros received a Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 1975 for her drama, "Orokbefogadas" (Adoption), marking her international breakthrough. Her debut feature film, 1968's "Eltavozott nap" (The Girl), was the first Hungarian feature film to be directed by a woman. Pic will screen Feb. 13 following the award's presentation.
Holloway, who also has worked as a documentary maker, has been associated with the Berlinale for the past 30 years, contributing to the diversification of the program and, with wife Moritz, founded the English language journal "Kino German Film & International Reports."
Moritz, an actress, has been selecting films for the Berlinale for 19 years.
Holloway's documentary "Parajanov — a Requiem," about the late Armenian director Sergej Parajanov, will screen on the occasion of the award presentation on Feb. 16.
All the Berlinale Camera ceremonies will take place at Berlin's Filmpalast.
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