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    Variety
    Jan 30 2007

    Berlin honors Mina, Meszaros

    Golden Camera also to go to Holloway, Moritz

    By ED MEZABERLIN - 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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