Poet and songwriter was hailed as 'Godfather of Rap' after penning The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

MEDIAWAVE 2010 Festival

concert video - click here!

Open your eyes, open your ears, and open your heart. Because hear comes the story of the common project of some of the most talented romanian dj-s and a bunch of exceptionally gifted gypsies playing ethno-electro.

A Vienna-based group formed in 2004, Fatima Spar and The Freedom Fries is a Euro-Asian indie jazz band with a Austrian-Turkish singer that integrates swing and musical styles from the Balkans.
The band derives its name from the euphemism for French Fries used in the U.S. after the French governmentʼs refusal to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The lyrics, which find emotion in Fatima Spar’s distinctive voice, are mostly in English and Turkish. The music is a brilliant amalgam of sounds and is falling somewhere between 1930’s and today’s music.

fatima spar - voc, andrej prozorov - sop sax, mario rom - tr, milos todorovski - acc, thomas stempkovski - bass, christian eberle - drums

Not even being in his teens, Bi would meet a great deal of disappointment if opening his eyes wide...

For film excerpt and more information click 'more details'.

As it happend in the past 10 years, Mediawave Festival continues the tradition and will present itself in several Czech cities: on the 17th of May in KROMĚŘÍŽ and on the 18th of May close to Prague in PARDUBICE city. In these cities there will be a bigger Hungarian festival and MEDIAWAVE also had the chance to participate. You can read the programs if you click on the name of the cities.

„The starting point of the Hungarian director-scriptwriter’s movie Afterlife is a failed fater-son relationship. The cleric fater returnes to his own funeral as a ghost.” - was written by the Hirado.hu web site.

But for the MEDIAWAVE Virág means a little more. In an approaching storm, an old friend with his shy daughter popped in the MEDIAWAVE Summer Film Camp. It happened in 2004. Then she returned many times. And also more an more movies were born and the talent started to shine through these works. Her last work was produced in the camp of the MEDIAWAVE PASSPORT CONTROL Workshop which took place in East-Turkey. At that time she had been studying at the Theater and Film Art University. Between 2007-2010 she participated in the selection committee of the MEDIAWAVE Festival. In 2010, she and her fellow partners gave help in scriptwriting (Fiction Science Lab) to young artists in the MEDIAWAVE Film Forum. She led the scriptwriter workshop in the Passport Control Film Camp’2010. This year the audience can watch her movie Something Blue in the short film section of the competition program of the festival.
 

You can still enter for free your fiction, animation or experimental film that is no longer than 30 minutes and was made after 1. January 2008. Beside the previous technical updates the biggest change is that you can not only send the registration form on-line but you can also upload your film for the pre-jury to review. Those whom movies make it to the final we require a screening copy as well. Of course whoever wish to send their film by postal service they are free to do so.Shortly there will be a list of films have been entered this year with those highlighted that we actually recieved! Deadline is 30th of April 2011! Shortly there will be a list ont he website of the films have been entered this year with those highlighted that we actually recieved!

This year we have the "CREATOR WOMEN", and "ENDANGERED SPECIES (Of Art)" themes and we recieved 1276 films from 85 countries. The selection committee chose 74 films to be in the competition. (9 feature films - 17 short films - 24 animations - 9 experimental films - 15 dokumentaries.) The Hungarian films were selected by international professionals. The result and film fragments can be seen here!

On the day of our National Holiday numerous artists recieved Kossuth or other national art awards on 15th of March who are basic figures of MEDIAWAVE mentality. More of them recieved the "Parallel Culture" Award which was founded by MEDIAWAVE in 2001.

GYÖRGY SZABADOS - Kossuth Award He is famous of his contemporary improvising music all around Europe. He is a decisive, basic figure of MEDIAWAVE improvising music mentality. He recieved one of the biggest Hungarian musical award, the Ferenc Liszt Award in 1983 among other very prestigious musical and art awards since than (2001- Magyar Művészetért, Szabó Gábor életműdíj.) His strong musical world follows and builds the new wave of music. The "Parallel Culture" Award was given to him in 2009 on the MEDIAWAVE Festival.    His documentary and concert on MEDIAWAVE.
ISTVÁN OROSZ - Kossuth Award He has been awarded with numerous prices like the National Hungarian Meritorious Artist, Béla Balázs and Mihály Munkácsy Awards for he graphical art, he is a university teacher in two different institues.  He is appriciated for his traditional, individual work outside the country as well.  More of his animations were screened on the MEDIAWAVE Fesztival. His film "Sakk" ("Chess") is part of this year's fil programme. Part of his film "Chess".
ANDRÁS BERECZ - Kossuth Award Folk song singer, folk tale teller, Hungarian tradition guard. He collects folk songs and folk tales in all Central Europe for thirty years, he is a literary translator and his presentations are full of wonder. Concerts: MEDIAWAVE 2010, Ördögkatlan 2010
MIHÁLY DRESCH - Hungarian Meritorious Artist Award  Mihály Dresch is one of the most important, style creative Hungarian jazz musician, music writer who bases his music on traditional Hungarian folk music. He fits perfectly into the MEDIAWAVE music mentality, he is in fact one of the basic figures. Actually he performed on all of our festivals alone or with one of his bands. Last time with Hamid Drake, Lafayette Gilchrist, Mátyás Szandai on MEDIAWAVE Selective in Őriszentpéter. The "Parallel Culture" Award was recieved by him in 2002 on the MEDIAWAVE Festival. Previously on MEDIAWAVE: concert 1989, Somewhere in Central-Europe /1993/, Kisörspuszta /1993/, Film message from Gyimes /1995/, with Jeanne Lee on MEDIAWAVE Festival /1997/, Igrics and kekecs - MEDIAWAVE in Asia /1998/, MEDIAWAVE2001 concert, MEDIAWAVE 2004 concert
JÓZSEF NAGY (FRA/YUG) - Hungarian Meritorious Artist Award Josef Nadj was born in Vojvodina, lives in France as a world famous dancer-coreographer-actor-director. He won the Oscar of the theater world, the  Europe Big Award of the European Theatre Union (this Award was given to outstanding 20th century artists such as Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine, George Stehler, Heiner Müller...) He is the director of the Dance theatre in Orléans (Centré Chorégraphique d'National Orléans) which is one of the most excellent contemporary theaters of the world. He is also working in his birth town, Magyarkanizsa, in a project called József Nagy Local Creative Workshop. His connection to MEDIAWAVE grows back to two decades and he recieved the "Parallel Culture" Award in 2009. In MEDIAWAVE films: Somewhere in Central Europe /1993/, Happening in the Kassák Club /1987/

MEDIAWAVE is involving students of University of West Hungary (UWH) who are studying Event planning to help in the organization of the festival.