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January 11, 2012
LIFEAD 2012
ARE WE ENTERTAINED TO DEATH!?
The registration is open again for LifeAd of AZYL shorfilm festival of Bratislava. In Hungary hosted by Gombolyag Foundation also organizer of BuSho (Budapest Short Film Festival). Calling for such one-minute shorts that related to the topic ’LifeAd’. An outstanding achivement of 2011 was that Honfoglalás 2011 (Conquest 2011) by Kristóf Deák has been selected to the top 25 one-minute shorts of the world!!! The topic of 2012 will be what else than the crisis. Please note that we aren’t looking for painful sadness, rather optimistic ideas of solution. The Slovakians picked their credo: Are we entertained to death!? – since Hungarian is a complex language ours will be: ’K-rice is our food!?’ We hope that the tradition of making a short not only by yourself but in the frame of LifeAd workshops continues. One will be held in Budapest at SZFE with the leadership of János Xantus the other one in Oradea with Tamás Patrovits in February. We await for the decision of the relevant bodies about supporting the workshop, but in the meanwhile we would like to receive some feedback from you wether planning to participate or not!
December 20, 2011
BUSHO 2012: APOCALYPSE NOW!
The BuSho’s website has gone through a
major improvement and been re-interpreted according to the requirement of
present times. The words of our webmaster: ’Those who uses internet explorer 6
probably does not read the site, although it is quite common worldwide to use
internet on phone or tablets. Because when you open the site in IE6 it asks you
to install Chrome Frame plug-in and then it’d work fine, so basically the site
isn’t optimized for, neither against anything. We refreshed our mailing list
and newsletter system so if you do not want to receive newsletter anymore
please click on unsubscribe so that we can delete you from the database. The
online registration has been renewed too so the registration is now open for BuSho International Shortfilm
Festival 2012!
november 23, 2011
OGILVY CAMPAIGN AGAIN
Ogilvy Hungary has kindly agreed to support our next festival and produced a film and poster campaign in cooperation with top London photographer and director James Day. The series, supporting the 8th BuSho festival, parodies famous film posters (Poster1, Poster2 and Poster3) and even gives a look behind the scenes of some famous "short films." „In order to promote the festival we imagine what popular films might be like if they were also short. And we really meant it. The campaign consists of two 2 videos (Video1 and Video2), and the above mentioned 3 print ads which are used for the 2012 festival.”október 24, 2011
BUSHO WORKS
After the awards given out each year we do the accounting and administration followed by the making of the ‘making of BusHo’ and collecting all media presence with all the information to be put in our reference book that helps us to gain some support for next year’s festival on different tenders. First on Media Program Festivals in Brussels at the end of October. Please welcome this little gift from us with our report, catalogue and reference booklet.október 24, 2011
BALCHIK AFTER BALCSI (aka LAKE BALATON)
It was a mission to catch those students having their holiday at lake Balaton during summer but eventually we succeed and we could carry on our flourishing partnershift with our Bulgarian friends. In previous years we attended In The Palace festival in Balchik several times then last year we’ve delegated two Hungarian bands to a music camp, and this time 8 lucky students could take part on a multicultural workshop there, called Contemporary Art Zone. It seems to be worth of set off to this adventure, so the feedbacks and pictures say, we would like to congratulate to all to represent Hungary in this international workshop.szeptember 5, 2011
THE GREAT RACE WON THE SHORT COMPETITION: BUSHO 2011 AWARDS
This is the end of the 7th BuSho International Short Film Festival. Out of 962 entries, this year’s pre-jury selected 93 movies in the competition program which were watched by the National Student Jury and the international jury together with the audience. The members of the international jury were: Djinn Carrénard, young filmmaker from France, Riina Mikkonen, organiser of the Tampere Film Festival, Miomir Rajcevic, director of the Belgrade Media Centre, Kocsis Ágnes director and Wolfgang Leis marketing expert. Besides the beautiful statues created by Solide Art Ltd. this time again awards were offered by Hungarian Filmunio, Kodak, the National Digital Data Archive, the Soltész Advertising Agency and Extreme Digital. Firstly, the members of the National Student Jury (Tóháti Zsuzsa, Vargha Márk Péter, Nemes-Jeles Veronika) went on stage and explained their decision. The organisers, having thanked for the students’ work, went on to the international jury awards which were handed over in the name of the jury by Wolfgang Leisto the filmmakers present at the ceremony. To everyone’s great pleasure, the awarded arrived in a row to take over the prizes. Before the announcement of the main awards of the 7th BuSho, Miomir Rajcevic, member of the international jury resumed the jury’s evaluation. He told the audience that they had seen a high quality programme at a well organised festival, however he emphasised that one thing had been missing: unfortunately, the participation of the Hungarian filmmakers in competition was again very low. After the awarding ceremony, all the prize-winning movies were screened, while the organisers and the jury members gave interviews. Kocsis Ágnes said the following:"In the past 10 years, the technical standard of short films has rocketed. Apparently more and more filmmakers make shorts. However, it also means that more and more young directors are involved in the genre, and so the stories are less thought over. Of course, there were outstanding, almost perfect movies as well in the programme. The freedom of an artist does not necessarily mean the freedom of thought, because what he invents has to be realised as well. And for this, money is inevitable!" Thanks to all the co-operators and the Motion Picture Art Department of the Ministry of National Resources for its support. See you in 2012 at the 8th BuSho festival! List of the winners here.augusztus 30, 2011
BUSHO 2011: THE SEVENTH
The 7th edition of BuSho (Budapest Short) International Short Film Festival is to take place between 30 August and 3 September again in Vörösmarty cinema, and presents a competition programme full of international stars, a panorama section, a best of the partner festivals, and for the first time in Hungary, the short film nominees of the European Film Academy. Following the selection of films, we recruited the members of the international jury which is again composed of excellent cinema experts:young French film director Djinn Carrénard; Riina Mikkonen, organiser of Tampere Film Festival; Miomir Rajcevic, director of the Belgrade Youth Media Centre; the Hungarian representative to our greatest pleasure this year is Ágnes Kocsis film director; and, as the „5th element at the Seventh”, the only standard member and coordinator of the BuSho jury, Wolfgang Leis, marketing expert. This year, as usual, the National Student Jury is going to be present and will be expecting you with “the big” at the evening public jury consultation which means the intellectual climax of the festival each year. The great attraction of this edition is the outcome of a long process: by mere coincidence, it was the BuSho organisers who brought back home the European Film Award nomination from Drama, Greece to Bálint Szimler for his film I’m Here! Although it didn’t win in the final last December, the BuSho organisers were curious to know which films were the concurrent nominees. As a result of a long correspondence, we received the authorisation to present these movies – and BuSho has become the first Hungarian festival to show the nominees of the short film category of the European Film Academy 2010! Apart from the Competition section, we present the Panorama section, the best of the partner festivals, as well as evening concerts in Trafik, “Kultúrdiszkó”, and an international volunteer forum. Parallel to the Budapest based central spot, there are screenings in the countryside (Szolnok, Szombathely) and across the border (Nagyvárad, Magyarkanizsa). And this year for the first time, as a rather symbolic financial contribution, a new ticket system has been introduced exclusively at the Budapest spot and only for the competition blocks mainly for statistic and strategic reasons. May all festival visitors be welcome at the event which starts on August 30 Tuesday evening at 19:00 with the opening ceremony and finishes on September 3 on Saturday at 19:00 with the awarding ceremony.augusztus 15, 2011
7th BUSHO DETAILED PROGRAM
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The detailed screening programme was finalised simultaneously with the accreditation deadline. This year as usual, numerous international guests have indicated their willingness to participate in the festival and the organisers trust that Hungarian filmmakers will also join the event in great numbers. Among others, such eminent figures can be seen on screen as Jean Reno (The Philosopher), Djoko Rosic (Along the wire), or Ferenc Elek (Finale); Ferenc Cakó animator’s work is competing with the internationally acclaimed Polish animation films as well as other festival successes such as Mór György Kárpáti: Forest, or the Romanian-German co-production Silent River. Parallel to the central event spot events, several cross-border and countryside screenings will take place, like in the Tiszap’Art cinema in Szolnok, the Savaria in Szombathely, the Szabadság theatre in Nagyvárad and the Kultúra in Magyarkanizsa. Our guests in Budapest can enjoy the morning programmes: sightseeing by the oldtimer bus, visiting the Parliament or the spas. The screenings will be followed by one of our principal attractions, the public jury consultations, where the international jury and the national student jury evaluate the films seen during the daily screenings involving the filmmakers and the audience! And of course, the rest of the usual programmes should be mentioned as well: the bestoffest screenings featuring the best shorts of the partner festivals, the evening concerts in Trafik, the Kultúrdiszkó, Volunteer forum and other surprises, sensations still under organisation; further details are going to be available before the opening on August 30. Further details, press material, illustrations, references.július 1, 2011
7. BUSHO COMPETITION PROGRAM
The pre-jury had the toughest job ever in the festival's history as they counted from 55 countries 962 entries. This amount of shortfilms is unique in Hungary. So we are pleased to announce that the 7th BuSho International Short Film Festival's competition program is lined up and contains 93 shorts in total including 65 fiction, 16 animation and 12 experimental works. By the statistics it isn't a surprise that the most entries made it to the competition are from Spain. There will be a Panorama section again where we'll show those works just missed the competition and also all the received Hungarian shorts will be screened, to make everyone an opportunity for their work to be shown. So we'd like to ask all the filmmakers to post their copy by 15. July the latest with the following technical parameters: PAL SD 16:9 (or 4:3 but please not letterbox) on MiniDV tape (SP, DVCAM) or data DVD (AVI, MOV, MPEG2 MP4).
The filmmakers whose works made it to the competition can register on the website till 30th of july, if they wish to participate the festival in person. Here is a little taste from last year of what is the „BuSho experience”. Now for the next 2 months we got nothing else left to do but creating the fundamental conditions of making this festival to happen, since apart from one, all of our tenders were declined! It seems that the Board of Trustees took things seriously when deciding by considering 2011 as the year of European Volunteering, so everyone works voluntarily at the festival, although neccessary things like festival catalogue, cinema rental, jury costs or the awards have to be paid for. But we'll find a solution and all will be welcome in the first week of September at the 7th BuSho Festival!június 7, 2011
DUNA MOZAIK 2011 DANUBE CINEMA
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DANUBE - Europe's Blue Line - a documentary series about a cult river on the millennium. In the history of Europe crucial things had happened along the DANUBE, however Johann Strauss was either colorblind or in love when composing the Blue DANUBE as the river's source is in the Black Forrest and flows into the Black Sea. Is it really blue in between? We'll find out now.It is a new film project made in co-production by Gombolyag Foundation (also the organizer of BuSho Film Festival) and Balassi Institute in the frame of the current Hungarian EU-presidency and will be screened in the following locations: Bucharest, Balchik, Bratislava, Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Budapest at the BuSho short film festival. The so called joy therapy will include a short prologue followed by the screening of the finalist shorts of „Are we Europeans!?” and selected award winning shorts in the topic of Danube, Water, Environment.május 15, 2011
7th BUSHO RECORD ENTRIES
This is the end of the 2011 BuSho call for entries, which is renewed on several levels: not only you can fill in the entry form online on the website, but your film can be uploaded with one click! Naturally, we had technical problems, which have been resolved with the help of the mentha team. It is quite probable that next year this is the only way we are to accept entries for pre-selection. What’s more, this year withoutabox has also joined the “BuSho Machine” together with filmfestivals.com, so we have an astonishing number of 937 entries, more than half of which online. According to our experience so far, it will be a great deal of work from an administrational as well as technical point of view, not to mention the challenge that the pre-jury has to face – but we are happy to get down to work! We would like to ask the filmmakers’ patience as it is possible that we won’t have the final competition programme by mid-June as promised, but the results will be published by June 30th the latest. This means that the filmmakers selected can send their accreditation by July 30 and one month later, on August 30. the 7th BuSho International Short Film Festival can start! A few statistic data: Out of 937 entries 389 arrived via withoutabox, and 548 directly to BuSho, with 113 uploaded on the entry site and including 132 animation, 194 experimental, and more than 600 fiction. As to the categorisation by countries, the first place is occupied by the USA (undoubtedly thanks to withoutabox) with 145 films, the ever-winning Spanish with 109 entries, and this time 63 from Germany. To our greatest pleasure 60 Hungarian short films on the next place, followed by the UK with 54, and last but not least the French delegating 37 shorts!december 21, 2010
Advertising Life 2011 - WE ARE EUROPEANS!?
The AZYL festival of Bratislava again calls for entries to the Advertising Life competition, which like in the last years will be hosted in Hungary by BUSHO festival for the third time. The goal of this call is to get 1 minute shorts from the filmmakers that is related to their slogen „reklama na život" roughly means advertising life. This year’s subject is: We are Europeans!? Armed with last years’ experience the major change is that the pieces will be judged in 4 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland) by separate juries then the 10 finalists from each country will compete in the final in Prague, where the winner’s reward is again €3000.-! The best pieces according to the local jury’s voting will be shown in each country as follows: After Prague, Warsaw and Bratislava in Budapest! The winners will be officially announced on the 6. April in Prague. All the entries will be on screen at the 7th BuSho Festival in Budapest in September. Details: lifeAd2011_call / lifeAd 2011 entry form / 2010_reference_bookletdecember 21, 2010
RENEWED ONLINE ENTRY
Just like in previous years the registration for BuSho 2011 will open before Christmas and this the 7th time it is 20-December again with minor but important changes. You can still enter your fiction, animation or experimental film for free 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.október 25, 2010
FILM CLUB PROGRAMME 2010 WINTER
Fall has come, winter is approaching, and just as usual, we settle in various warm (what’s more, hot!) places till the arrival of the long anticipated spring fever, and entertain you wherever possible! For a beginning, on 27 October in Artkatakomba you can see the awarded films of 2010, then the next day an animation selection on the occasion of the Animation World day in Tűzraktér. On 3 November Monday evening Tranzit Art Cafe programmes the best BuSho films from the beginnings (2005-2007). The 100 year-old restaurant of Solymár welcomes everyone on Wednesdays from November. Our permanent film club in Zappa Café (Szabad az Á), as usual, one Thursday a month, starting on 18 November. There we’ll have the occasion to analyse in detail the works of 2010. Detailed programme.szeptember 30, 2010
EFA NOMINATION FOR BALINT SZIMLER
The shortfilm 'Itt Vagyok / Here I am' of Bálint Szimler has won the nomination for EFA award 2010 at the 16th International Shortfilmfestival in Drama, Greece on 25-September. This year the short was awarded for best short feature film in the Hungarian Film Week out of 1500 films and by this was entitled to compete in Cannes. Then like in a fairy tale it's gone on it's world conquering route. The film is Szimler's 3rd grade exam work at the University of Theatre and Cinema of Hungary. The images were made by Marcell Rév (last term) and it was produced by András Pires Muhi and Gábor Osváth. Beside this the only Hungarian film in the competition in Greece the BuSho section was showcased as well where the BuSho delegation was present with two members of their team. Tamás Gábeli the festival director of BuSho highlighted that the international jury without exception instantly liked Szimler's short. More details!szeptember 18, 2010
BUSHO TOUR START
Each year once the festival is over the first thing we do is to make conact with partner festivals in order to promote ourselves by trying to get BuSho’s actual bests to be shown there. Sometimes due to short time scale between festivals we fail and have to wait another year. Just like at our first stop of BuSho tour in Drama Short Film Festival in Greece. Unfortunately there are two Hungarian festivals running in paralell to Greece one in Szolnok and the other in Szentes but we’ll try to be there at some stage. Then the avalanche starts rolling in mid October by visiting Brno as usual then on the world animation day at our new venue the Szabadság cinema in Oradea. In November the Hungarian Institute in Paris and the 25th year old Brest Short Film Festival will be hosting us. Then we ought to visit Euroshorts in Warsaw, Poland. Nevertheless in December we should go to Moscow and Sicily as well.szeptember 6, 2010
THE LAST DAY OF BULKIN AND THE 6th BUSHO
In 2010 on the 6th BuSho festival according to both the National Student and the International Main jury's decision: the Russian made ‘The last day of Bulkin’ took all main prizes and for everyone's pleasure these prizes were handed over in person as on behalf of the director Aleksei Andrianov one of the festival's guests Ivan Lopatin producer of the film thanked for the decision. The silver BuSho prize went to a 10 min. long Indian satire: ‘The flower bud’ directed by Shumona Banerjee gives us an insight of a weird relationship of a young transvestite prostitute and a straight out-of –job, obsessive, suicidal English literature teacher. Eduardo Chapeto-Jackson’s ‘The End’ won the bronze BuSho prize of which story is based on a real danger with negative utopia in a country that was torn apart due to lack of water. The further award winners!szeptember 5, 2010
BUSHO VIVAZ SPOT COMPETITION
The winners announcement of this first timer competition was held ont he opening ceremony of the 6th BuSho and the spots have been showcased in front of a full house were huge success. There were 15 spots shown prior to each competition block screenings and the jury announced the winners. By the end of the week the public award winner was also revieled who just like the first three competitors took home a Sony Ericsson Vivaz mobile phone.
First place: Riskó Zoltán: Felesút
Second place: MeRiGalli: Üllői út 4.
Third place: Samuel Vangerven: Sleep Walker
Audience award: Zsély Csilla: Zúzós volt a nyár?augusztus 15, 2010
6. BUSHO SCREENING PROGRAM
Finally here is the detailed screening plan, the entire festival program with concerts, exhibitions, bestoffest, everything! The opening ceremony coming soon, the first press release here, and the Detailed schedule here! Download the catalogue sides in pdf under the program button.augusztus 10, 2010
BUSHO VIVAZ SPOT COMPETITION 2010
In 2010 for the first time we announced a spot competition of which goal was to shoot 6th BuSho’s advert spot on a Sony Ericsson Vivaz mobile phone’s HD camera. The mobiles were provided by the BuSho team to the competitors for 10 days each. We recieved 30 works in total. The 3 member jury (Orsolya Benkő, Killa Köllő, Péter Sirokai) selected the best 15 and those will be on screen prior to competition programs. The best 3 and the public award winner can take a device home. You can vote on BuShoFest Youtube Channel and on the BuSho Blog, where you can place your vote by simply liking the video you want to vote for.július 20, 2010
HUNGARIAN BANDS IN BULGARIA
Thanks to our Bulgarian connection Tsanko Vasilev we had the chance to visit Balchik, Bulgaria twice and participate on In The Palace filmfestival where there were also a music workshop held beside the film section. With our go-between there were Beat Dis and Pozvakowski two Hungarian bands playing, followed by another invitation from the Spirit of Burgas where another gifted Hungarian band the Warn!ng from Veszprem will be representing our country. If things go well they’ll be entertaining us on BuSho as well.június 20, 2010
6. BUSHO COMPETITION PROGRAM
The pre-jury have made their decision: HERE IS THE PROGRAM OF THE COMPETITION 2010. For now it lists all the participants the screening schedule will be announced at a later stage. There is one award already decided who to go to, the best selection award that is. Obviously we won’t give out the name of the winner but the nominations list only. According to the law of math and their outstanding work the most shorts came from Spain but there will be at least one Hungarian work in each screening section. Beside the fiction movies there are 15 animation and 10 experimental works that made it to the competition. Again all registered Hungarian (that of match our entry requirements) shorts will be showcased off competition along with several other works in the frame of Panorama section. május 13, 2010
BUSHO VIVAZ SPOT COMPETITION 2010
After the successful 2nd LifeAd shortfilm competition here comes Busho's next call which is announced together with Sony Ericsson! The aim of this call is shot the main spot of the 6th BuSho festival with Sony Ericsson brand new model the HD equipped Vivaz camera. The 3 best competitor and the one gets the public's vote can take the device home! Regulations and Entry Form!
We were a bit worried as 2 days before deadline there weren’t enough registration, then once again the Hungarian spirit has been confirmed and in the last few hours the registrations doubled up. Eventually 31 out of 40 sketches were decided to be worth of use, so the makers start the work on the 21st which lasts until 21-July and consist of 3 stages. The finalized spots should be registered and sent to us by midnight 1-August. május 12, 2010
BUSHO ENTRY 2010
The deadline for entries was 1st of May. At 90% of the processing we count 455 shorts from 50 countries, the category breakdown is 80 of both animation and experimental, and nearly 300 of fiction but exact details coming soon. No surprise in the top entering nations this year again, as the same 3 countries count the most entries but in a different order. This time Spain registered the most entries followed by Germany and Hungary on 3rd which is surprising though. Some details may change, because we have not recieved all the works as yet, but made a list of the missing details. The pre-jury soon start their work and as usual the list of the competition will be announced by mid-June. április 2, 2010
3 HUNGARIAN AWARD WINNERS ON THE GRAND FINAL
The international grand final of the advertisingLIFE 2010: 20 years of freedom!? one minute shorts was held in Bratislava on 31-March with huge Hungarian success! The event has counted a total of 150 entries from all three countries (Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic) with Hungary delegating 85 of them. After the regional finals each country represented 10 works in the grand final where to our pleasure the 3rd prize went to Tamás Patrovits: Bulvárhírek a diliházból (Yellow press news from the asylum) animation, whereas the main prize was won shared between Gábor Hörcher: Served cold and Dénes Sántha, Zsolt Damó: http://communism2010.com that was made at the workshop in Nagyvárad. All the finalist works can be watched here.március 28, 2010
LIFEAD 2010: AWARD CEREMONY BUDAPEST
By 15-March the deadline of entries for adverisingLIFE was over. In Hungary it was hosted again by BuSho (Budapest Shortfilm Festival) and the event has counted as many as 85 entries from 11 countries. The three-step final's first ceremony was held in Budapest (prior to finals in Prague and Bratislava) on 25-March at Toldi cinema, Budapest. After the official opening of the final, János Xantus summarized what was going on at the same theme workshop that was held in line with the final, then the mainly Hungarian works were showcased but for the pleasure of the organizers there were entries from Finland, Germany, India, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and the USA. The screening was followed by the award ceremony where Géza M. Tóth handed over the prizes of this year. For the closing of the event there was a Slovakian-Hungarian DJ duel, but of course this is to be continued: The international grand final will be held on 31-March in Bratislava at the Meteorit theatre. december 18, 2009
ADVERTISING LIFE: 20 YEARS OF FREEDOM!?
The AZYL shortfilm festival of Bratislava again calls for entries to the Advertising Life competition, which like last year will be hosted by BuSho festival for the second time. The goal of this call is to get 1 minute shorts from makers that is related to their slogen „reklama na život" roughly means advertising life. This year’s subject is: 20 years of freedom!? Armed with last years’ experience the major change is that the pieces will be judged in 3 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia) by separate juries then the 10 finalists will compete in the final in Bratislava. The winner’s reward again is €3000.-! New feature is that from this year you can upload your short online as well and that we also accept entries that were not made by an individual but in the frame of „advertising LIFE” workshop which is most likely to be held on the last weekend of January. Entry Form.december 18, 2009
ONLINE ENTRY 2010: KICK OFF!
Just like in the previous years the online registration for the 6th BuSho starts on 15. December with minor changes. The double deadline and late registration fee made no effect whatsoever, therefore the old registration rules are being reset and the registration is free, deadline is as usual 1. May. Beside the few technical changes the biggest change is that there is an year of making restriction of shorts meaning that no entries of shorts made before 1. January 2007 will be accepted! Other criterias remain the same: no longer than 30 minutes, fiction, animation and experimental works are welcome. You can register directly through filmfestivals.com and on withoutabox pages and you can also find us in festivalfocus and britfilms.com database.december 18, 2009
BUSHO CINECLUB 2010
It seems like it takes 5 years to be accepted, to find a place where with pleasure they welcome us and an international cineclub that is offering a guaranteed entertainment for the growing number of fans of BuSho during the year. „Having fun with us?” BuSho season closing and at the same time BuSho cineclub opening party on 17. December at 6.00pm in Szabad az Á, showcasing the award winner shorts of 2009. This cineclub is to be continued every other Thursday at 7.00pm at the same place. Details…december 2, 2009
BUSHO: CERTIFICATION OF ART FESTIVAL
The Vocational Syndicate of the Hungarian Festival Association has awarded BuSho with the Certification of Art Festival which was recieved on the 2nd of December by Csaba Bollók and Tamás Gábeli at Conference of the Hungarian Festival Registration and Vocational Qualifying Program. On this occasion the VS has awarded a total of 70 different festivals in 3 categories countrywide such as 25 art, 25 folklore and 20 gastronomy event. Thank you.november 25, 2009
BEEN TO PARTNERFESTIVALS
The Brno16 festival did not let us down again as just like them visiting us years after years so do we, with it’s well known venues and high standard programs the Czechs have put on a great show once again. The A.RE.S. festival in Siracusa, Italy has shown some imperfection, but the astonishing venue Ortigia (the shooting of Malena by Tornatore was taking place here) made us to see over the insignificant bloopers, although we could not manage to bring home some award. But overall the muster of Cornwall has outshone everything. It was a well organized international competition where we were a member of the jury of the local competition and also succesfully represented this year’s BuSho award winning works. One of our team members Ferenc Görögh translator who took part of it said: „The festival is a very well organized event taking place at a stunning landscape, and with the technical facilities and support they ought to go on a wider intrnational field to extend their popularity and draw more attention to what they do”. And at last but not least Zoltán Gergely (member of the BuSho pre-jury) was at the festival in Cracow, Poland who also returned with valuable experience. november 11, 2009
MERCI BEAUCOUP LIKA! THANK YOU ILDIKÓ!
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During the making of the reference booklet of the 5.BuSho, just like in the previous years, we asked our guests to share any pictures, photos were taken at the festival. It was Lika Banshoya the female member of the lovely french couple who reacted first of the many and created an album on Facebook. As soon as I saw the photos I forwarded the link to the management of the Vörösmarty cinema who were also astonished: „...we have recieved the photos with many thanks. We just love this lady even unkowingly, we didn’t realize that we run such an interesting cinemaJ” Beside this I would love to express my thankfulness to another lady for her jury report, because Ildikó Enyedi highlighted the essence of the festival with such a precise description that from now we shall use a quote from that as our slogan when applying for sponsoring tenders and hope that we could make experts believe that this festival has got some ground for existence.
október 12, 2009
BUSHO MIGRATION TOUR IS TO START
After the 5th Busho festival we recieved more invitations to partner festivals, film clubs, and workshops than ever. Taking these into consideration with our existing partners, the list of the promotion spots of the Busho festival is getting finalized for autumn. For instance festivals in Tinkla, Lithuania and Drama, Greece have ran it’s course then we will get back to the newly known yet beloved Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia. In middle of October for the 5th time we will promote Busho on the jubilee 50th Brno 16 festival. After that comes a festival in Sicily, Italy that was held in 3 different venue over the last 3 years to which Busho delegates a member of the jury for the second time. Finally we introduce ourselves to MAFF in Oradea, Romania who's team participated in the summer workshop of ours GomBuSho and to the perfidous albion in Cornwall. Furthermore there are negotiations on the go with other organizations but these are not due untill 2010.október 12, 2009
FINAL AND DETAILED PROGRAM OF ARES
We reported earlier of a brand new art festival called ARES has been launched in the historical city of Siracusa, Sicily, Italy. It is held between 22-26 of October. After Busho's debut at Magma Festival in 2007 and it's success in Marzamem (where we won a Márton Szirmai special prize for Tripe and Onions) we are visiting the mediterranean island to astonish the adept Italian spectators. Owing to the invitations we sent out in the summer there were plenty of works been screened on Busho and it seems that one of the Godfathers made good friend with Mr. Szirmai because he managed to get into the competition yet again with his animation entitled Couple of Number.október 12, 2009
"THE RED BULL GOT OFF THE CANVAS"
The MAFF (Metrion Animation Film Festival) calls for entries of their short ‘post-it draw-animation’ competition inviting students and young animators, in the topic of ‘The kidnap of Europe’. This is in the same time the title of the festival and the competition as well.
The competing pieces will be shown to the public at MAFF.
A professional jury will review the best works.
To enter the registration form has to be sent along with the work in accordance to the terms and conditions of the competition.
Deadline for entries is 22-October-2009
REGULATIONSszeptember 7, 2009
AUSTRALIAN SHORT WON THE 5TH BUSHO FESTIVAL
The 5th BUSHO International Short Film Festival awards were announced on 5th September at19:00. During the full-house screenings from Wednesday to Friday, the 5-member International Jury watched 94 entries in the competition section. The Hungarian member, Ildikó Enyedi film director, explained the jury’s decision as follows:
„The film explores the almost unaproachable depth of a child’s soul in a disciplined, strict and highly sensitive film language.” The Golden BUSHO prize, which apart from the statue and the award package also included EUR 1000 offered by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture, went to the Australian Rene Hernandez with his film The Ground Beneath.
The Silver BUSHO Award was won by Clement Michel’s film, Baby. In this picture we can follow the difficulties of an ordinary man throughout 17 minutes who slowly realises that fatherhood has opened up new dimensions in his life.
And finally, a Hungarian winner for the Bronze BUSHO: Zoltán Gayer and Péter Molnár with The Caroussel Rite, an earlier awarded short of the Hungarian Film Week.
Further Awards here!augusztus 27, 2009
1ST OF SEPTEMBER 7.00 PM AT VÖRÖSMARTY CINEMA!
After last year’s success the main base of the event is going to be Vörösmarty cinema, where the opening ceremony - hosted by Csaba Bollók who missed last year’s due to a trip abroad, will take place on the 1st of September, the screenings will be running in two different rooms there for 4 days, whereas finally on the 5th of September the international jury will annonce the winners. The competitors will be awarded with 3 main prizes and 7 category prizes and in addition the winner of the main prize the Golden BuSho comes with a €1.000.- cash award at the first time.The evening and night programs of course continue at DocuArt Kocsiszín where beside the jury’s public consultation, some partner festival’s award winning works will be shown along with selection of Filming Workshops and video-library as well as those Hungarian works that did not make it into the competition. The countrywide screenings that started last year will be extended this year, beside the existing spots such as Szeged, Szolnok and Szombathely, there will be paralell screenings abroad at the first time in BuSho's history at the Kultúra Cinemain Magyarkanizsa, Serbia the venue just joined the BuSho board. One of the exhibitions of BuSho the '5 brave men of FAMU' will be displayed at Cseh Centrum (Czech Centre) which represents the works of the new generation of Czech animation graduated from the famous University of Prague.Just like in the previous years we invited the makers of the films that taking part in the competition so as to represent their work at the festival in person. Obviously the side programs that became an integral part and helped to set up a unique image of the festival for visitors from abroad (like sightseeing on an old-timer coach, visit to the House of the Parliament, bathing at Lukács spa) won’t be left out of the program. Come along and sniff up a bit of culture: Compulsory Short Program.
június 19, 2009
BUSHO COMPETITION PROGRAM 2009!
After fulfilling their month and a half long assignment - the pre-jury of the 5th BuSho has completed their task. Likewise to last year's program they selected 94 movies in total for entering the competition. In category breakdown it means 61 fiction, 20 animation and 13 experimental work.
We would like to give the opportunity to the all the movies to be shown that did not make it to the competition due to it's 15 hours time limitation, so these films will be screened in an informational section. However with the Hungarian works we return to our basic and main conception that all Hungarian filmsthat entered will be shown to provide their makers with an opportunity to show themselves for an international audience. Enjoy the browsing!
FILMMAKERS ATTENTION!May we draw the attention of the makers of the movies that have been selected to participate in the competition that in case they have not sent us a miniDV copy and/or English subtitled version of their work upon entering - they can do so untill 30th of June the latest. Alternatively, if they will appear in the festival in persAttentionon then once filled out the accreditation sheet please contact Orsi Benkő on orsi@busho.hu
június 15, 2009
A.R.E.S. SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
The A.R.E.S. Short Film Festival and the “Ideas for an Art Sociology” social videomaking Workshop will take place in September 2009, in Siracuse, Sicily, Italy.
The Festival’s main purpose is the promotion of social cohesion by means of culture, by creating an open support network able to provide incentives, sustain and connect expression and positive experiences that in the cultural and social field can spread values as pluralism and collective welfare.
Registration is free and open to a maximum length of 20 minutes, projects will only be accepted in DVD format and films must be subtitled in english.
Deadline: 31. July 2009 (attested by postal stamp)
CONTEST REGULATION
ENTRY FORM
WORKSHOP ENTRY FORM
május 8, 2009
FIFTH GEAR
In 2009 the BuSho team recieved 527 entries from 53 different countries by the deadline of the entries in May (in the categories it means 279 fictions, 115 animations and 133 experimental shorts). Although it is not as many as we recieved last year - which was breaking records of all time - the pre-jury still will be challanged when selecting. Top 3 places on the imaginary podium are taken by Spain - perhaps encouraged by last years' winner - delegating 45 works, Germany with 52 pieces and on top with the advantage of the home field is Hungary with 69. The decision of the pre-jury is coming around middle of june.április 25, 2009
THE CORNWALL FILM FESTIVAL (UK)
is currently calling for short film entries for our international short film competitions. There is a £1000 cash prize for the Another Country International Short Film Award.
EARLYBIRD DEADLINE: 14th July 2009: Free entry
Email: marion@cornwallfilmfestival.com,
Telephone: +44 1209 204 655
www.cornwallfilmfestival.com április 10, 2009
MEDIAWAVE 2009: AZYL-BUSHO SCREENINGS
"ANOTHER CONNECTION”
INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVALGyőr, 25 April - 2 May 2009 The festival is considered as a Central and Eastern European transit-festival, since by the festival centre (Győr, Hungary) there are going to happen simultaneously cultural and artistic events in 20 different venues of 4 different countries in the region (beside Hungary in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic). More…
március 10, 2009
5TH KINODYNAMIQUE WORKSHOP
This year we're organising our 5th KinoDynamique (internationally known as "KinoKabaret") 5th - 13th of May 2009 in Vienna, Austriaand inviting Austrian and international filmmakers to produce and screen short films within 3 x 60 hours. Calling all fiilmmakers, actors, musicians, sound engineers and everybody else involved and interested in filmmaking: send us your application form and be a part of it! The deadline for applying is the 14th of April. Anmeldeformular (Deutsch) / Registration Form (English)március 5, 2009
AZYL-BUSHO DECISION
Judges have selected 30 one-minutes in Advertising Life Competition on the theme: Is Our Society Open? and the final order was decided on with regard to idea, its transformation in film language and the degree of the given theme expression. Selection was made on 28th February 2009, the two First places (Borkur Sightorsson Support AND Miroslav Remo Ecce Homo) were granted an amount 50,000.-SKK (1.659,70 EURO). The AZYL team thanks all the participants.március 3, 2009
FILM FESTIVAL "KOTA 2023"
Few months ago, in Republic of Macedonia, a new Festival of short minimalist films by the name of Kota 2023 was born. The festival is comprised of several categories encompassing all but commercial ads. All material must arrive the latest of 15.04.2009, in a DVD (PAL) format. The Festival's web site: www.kota2023.commárcius 1, 2009
SCIENTIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2009. SZOLNOK
The International Scientific Film Festival in Szolnok (5-8. November 2009) provides forum for such distinct films which can somehow, in some way be connected to science: are about some scientific result or work, or in their action, language and presentation give place to science. Entry deadline: 18 April 2009. Details…február 26, 2009
AZYL-BUSHO: LAST LAP
Since the deadline for entries is 21-February the jury will not have plenty of time on their hand to nominate the winners, as the official awarding ceremony of AYZL-BUSHO is held on 2-March at 6.00pm at Astorka Theatre of Bratislava. In the meanwhile, a Dialektus Festival joined the dialogue thus as a result the Dialektus student section will be screened in Bratislava at a4 centrum súčasnej kultúry - zero space, after which a public voting will be held. The Dialektus Festival which starts on the following day will be hosting the életREklám (hungarian play of the words appx. means advertLIFEment) call’s premiere and assessment in Budapest on 7-March at 5.00pm at the headquarter of the festival – the DocuArt Shed. For more details click here…február 15, 2009
EVENTUALLY BUSHO CINECLUB
Our regulars expected it a long ago... Here it comes then. The BuSho cineclub is particularly to put pieces on screen that have been shown only in the information block, therefore a very few of you had the chance to see them. Each year some pieces miss to make it to the competition program by the skin of their teeth, moreover due to the huge amount of entries over the past two years – the field of the information block is getting stronger. Apart from screening the awarded pieces and the categorycal selections, we are also planning to do a country specific section of the one counting the most entries. We believe that there is a lot to squeeze into the occasional 4 hour show. According to our plan, after each of these shows the pieces will be evaluated by some experts that are the former members of the pre-jury and members of the international jury. február 10, 2009
AXN FILMFESTIVAL VOTES FOR PUBLIC AWARD
The invitation for applications has closed down for the shortfilm festival that was set up by the AXN television channel. It is now time for the public to form their opinion about the works. In case you want to find out about the finalist pieces, or to put yourself on the test whether your taste of films and vein of critic are similar to Ferenc Török and György Pálfi the two members of the jury, and nevertheless fancy to win an MP3 player – place your vote untill 26-February. More detals...február 5, 2009
8th FILMTETT-DUNA WORKSHOP CREATIVE CAMP 2009
After the event was held in Velence last year it returns to a tested but still to be discovered scene – the Kishavas pension of Csíkszépvíz. The movie-lover residents of the camp will be working under the guidance of renowned international filmmakers in 9 creation group, between 14-24 of July. Anyone can take part of the camp subject to be hungarian speaker as the work is in hungarian, and over 18 years old, entry deadline is 1st of April. Participation can be won through a tender, the subject of these tenders may vary group by group. More details...január 25, 2009
VIDEOCHANNEL CALL FOR ENTRIES
VideoChannel the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany is looking for "one minute films and videos" on the theme "memory " and "identity" for an online feature and future screening programs. Please find the entry regulations and form here. Deadline: 2 May 2009december 17, 2008
NEW ONLINE ENTRY
The new online entry system has been launched last year. Now we made the conclusions, know the advantages and the difficulties, and soon begin the new entry-platform. Naturally everybody will be informed with the help of a circular- probably combined at the some time with the holiday-greetings…december 15, 2008
AZYL-BUSHO: DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD!
The organizers of the Azyl Festival in Bratislava and of the BuSho in Budapest are fed up with the political debates, and they decided that they would try to prove (first of all on a cultural scene): Yes, there’s a normal Slovak-Hungarian relation-though this is not what we hear from the media… So the first step of the Azyl-BuSho cooperation is a call, of which point is that the applicants make 1 minutes short films related to the motto „reklama na zivot” – life-ad(d). The titles and topics are chosen within the syllabus Hungarian-Slovak relation. www.azyl.sk
december 1, 2008
SPONSORS NEEDED FOR MYSTERY MACHINE
As we’ve got screenings at 30 spots in all of Europe, and the Silent Cinema project had great success, we found out that we would go around Hungary as well; within the frameworks of a roadshow. The construction of a Mystery Machine is on the way with which we start our Silent Cinema Road(Bu)Show!november 24, 2008
THE 2008 REFERENCE BOOKLET IS READY
After the festival we make immediately an information material about the event every year, which includes the most important details about us: the annual report, the list of the winners, the feedbacks of the jury and of the artists, articles about us and media appereances, webstatistics… Everything You got to know about the 4th BuSho Festival. Download…
október 20, 2008
MORE FESTIVALS AMONG OUR PARTNERS
Above our usual autumn schedule (Brno 16, Magma, Euroshorts) this year we’ve got some new partner-festivals, with whom our fans’ group have become even more extended! Unfortunately the national MAFSZ parade was parallel with the „obligatory” visit to Brno, and we had the possibility to screen for the first time at Kolozsvár Filmtettfeszt! One week earlier our selection had great successs at the Terra Di Tutti festival in Bologna, where we could delegate a member into the international jury. szeptember 8, 2008
SPANISH WINNER AT THE 4. BUSHO FESTIVAL
The prizes of the Festival were given over at noon, on 7. Sept. at the Vörösmarty Cinema. The 5-member international jury has chosen the film entitled Traumatology, directed by Daniel Sanchez Arévalo. This year's ( as last year's) Silver Busho was given to a Hungarian work, e.g. Original Lager of Simonyi Balázs. The Bronz BuSho prize went to Stephan Stuckert for his film entitled Medium rare.Detailed prize-list...
augusztus 25, 2008
THE DETAILED PROGRAM AND THE NEW TV SPOT ARE HERE
This year’s detailed program is finally ready- after the long reconcilitions. You can glean it, compare it to the competition program, so You can plan your partecipation at BuSho. The TV spot is ready, too, hope You’ll like it, have a good time!augusztus 25, 2008
2. GOMBUSHO ANIMATION WORKSHOP
The carrying-on of GizmoSho Animation Workshop is called GomBusho ( because of the secession of the main sponsor) and it took place at Gombolyag, which is located far from the noise of the city, because it was proven several times that you can work more effectively in still, countryside environment, because You cannot leave for some hours (or even days) with different reasons. This happened a few times during last year1s workshop…The other important alteration: the participants were not completely beginners, but the Falka. augusztus 25, 2008
BUSHO PRESENTATION AT THE MOST SOUTHERN POINT OF EUROPE
The construction of the cultural bridge along the Budapest-Sicily axle –started last fall- continued this year when the festival ( namely the festival director) was invited (into the international jury ) to a picturesque small town situated at the Southernmost point of Europe. We got many memories and buzzes, and Szirmai Márton’s Tripe and onions has won Special Prize. And the visitors of the BuSho Festival will have the possibility to face the other results of the visit: the exhibitions of the recently founded FAPEGALLI group.június 20, 2008
THE COMPETITION PROGRAM IS READY!
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90 of the 620 entries has been selected into the competition program (50 of these are fictions, 30 are animations, 10 experimentals), but further 130 films (90 fictions, 20 animations and 20 experimental films) has gained the right to be screened in the information program. The detailed schedule will be ready soon, now just take a look and search... június 7, 2008
The mission of the pre-jury is completed
Record number of entries arrived – as it has been already told. The foretold number was 580, but it has increased a little bit, so in the end it shinned up to 619! The task of the brand new pre-jury was very hard, but finally they managed to delienate this year’s competiton and information program… however you have to wait a little more to the final lists, because we try to avoid any mistakes in the labyrinth of administration.Announcement of results: FRIDAY THE 13th!!!
június 6, 2008
Cinemart filmfestival at Szolnok
Some young men had an idea, and they started to organize a festival at the city of Szolnok. This would be CinemArt Filmfestival. The matter of the competiton is that each of the arriving teams shoot a short film (in one day) in base of the guidelines decided by us. The idea – we admit- is adopted from someone else, but there was not an initative of this kind alongside the river Tisza. 
június 6, 2008
Film camp at Faludi Ferenc Academy
The camp between 1-8. July gives possibility to every youngster who would like to have a deeper insight to filmmaking to test his/ her abilities and to work their ideas out, with the leadership and backup of some excellent authorities. The camp is related to the Academy’s amateurish film-festival, because its goal – among others- is to give the unprofessional talents a chance to develop their technisal skills and after making up their arrears so that they can apply to the festival entitled „Trust” of the Academy. The event is going to be homed by the Piliscsaba campus again. The right technical background makes sure that every idea becomes reality. There will be discourses and consultations about various topics, and every day will be concluded by common filmwatching. Those who feel enough audacity, ask wit Trust the Faludi Academy for further information. http://www.faludiakademia.hu/?m=1&am=22május 19, 2008
RECORD ENTRIES ARRIVED
After the analysis of the statistics of last years (2005- 94 films, 2006- 171 films, 2007-360 films) it is not such a great surprise that the number of the entries to BuSho 2008 is over half thousand, precisely it is 580! Dessecting the lists: we got films from 61 countries, the ’winners’ are: the golden medal goes to Germany (66 entries), the silver goes to UK (64 films), and at the third place we find Hungary with its 54 films handed.május 19, 2008
Succesful ad spot
The 3rd BuSho Spot (work of the cooproduction of Morpho and Ogilvy) which was chidden by many and complimented by more (nobody stayed indifferent) got its own life by favour of its ’fathers’: Jekler Balázs and Spielmann Gábor. The Spot got into the final of the Méribel Ad Festival 2007 (http://www.meribel-adfestival.com) in the category of ads and got into short list at Golden Blade 2008 (http://www.maksz.com).május 19, 2008
BUSHO SILENT CINEMA
The cooperation between BuSho and Silent Cinema has began within the frameworks of University Days of Pécs (PEN). Here You can watch some selections from the best film of the last years at several strange spots if you are ready to put on the headphones!április 19, 2008
DENA WORKS
Another Dawn, Seven sheets, A Voice or something… Our new collegaue’s own website is ready, where You can find all of the works of the last 13 years.http://www.dena.mentha.hu
március 7, 2008
EISA MAESTRO PHOTO COMPETITION 2008
The topic of the application is GLOBAL WARMING, which is a very important and hard problem nowadays. The photos of the winners of the competition organized by EISA and FotoVideo magazine are going to be exhibited at Photokina in Köln, and Europe’s Best Professional Camera of 2008-2009 is one of the prizes. The entries and the photos must be sent to the e-mail address : fotovideo@solteszreklam.hu until 30. April 2008. Further details...http://zeneszmagazin.hu/uploads/EISA_2008_magyar_nagy
március 6, 2008
BUSHO WINNER IN BERLIN
In 2008. 5 Hungarian youngsters got into the Talent Campus (organized for the 6. time this year) of the Berlin International Filmfestival. One of them Gergely Zoltán, the director of Superwash (winner of the Golden BuSho in 2006) with whom we have great plans regarding this spring ... Details http://www.magyar.film.hu/object.e4ff0519-988e-4ed0-a7c5-3d006c04ee68.ivy
A report with an ingenious title by Deák Dani: THE FUTURE WAS PRESENT!
http://www.magyar.film.hu/object.f23ddb41-3c47-43a6-9769-43d7c473ca10.ivy
február 6, 2008
BUSHO SCREENINGS AT THE DÓZER FESTIVAL
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The survival of Busho is due to Kultiplex in a sense, because we spent our first 2 years (2005, 2006) there. We immediately signed in our intention to participate to Dózerfestival somehow when we heard about the idea of it. The last event of the screening-series of 3 projections is going to be the showing of the 2007 „BESTOF Selection”, 17. February, Sunday. We want to say goodbye and thank you to Kulti this way. november 10, 2007
New date, new Entry conditions!
During the usual conference following the festival the organizers has decided that the 4th BuSho Festival is going to take place between 3-7. September in 2008. We modify the entry conditions because of the large number of entries in 2007 and there is going to be an online entry form at the website in december. When fulfilled, the entry form must be printed and sent by mail with the entered film to the address of the festival.The deadline of entries is the same: 3. May 2008.
október 1, 2007
BuSho On The Road Again
After the succesful 3rd festival „the international situation is escalating”, and BuSho is on its European tour again! Additionally to the screenings inland (HDU, Szemlétek, Utolsó csepp, Gyerekszem) we took part at Magma Festival in Sicily and at La Imagen Del Sur in Cordoba at the end of September. In October we were present at Brno 16 –according to precedent, and in november we are going to come out at a new event, Euroshorts in Warsaw.szeptember 28, 2007
ANNO has gained the sympathy of the public too
The public vote following the Gizmosho Animation Workshop is ended. The film entitled Anno by Fogarasi Gergely – which was prized by the 3-member-jury of the Workshop, too- has taken the majority of votes: more, than one quarter of these, alone! The director has taken his mission very seriously, You will see, if You click on this link: http://anno.film.googlepages.comaugusztus 24, 2007
And the winner is: Offside
The main prize of the 3rd BuSho festival is won by the film entitled Offside ( Erez Tadmor, Guy Nattiv, Israel). The Silver Busho went to two Hungarian creators: Simonyi Balázs and Tóth Barnabás for the film „One vote” („Egy szavazat”), while the third step of imaginary stand could have been taken by Felix Stienz (Germany) for the film „Ladenhüter”. In the picture you can see the member of our jury, Kis-Bocz Éva with the prize.Továbbjúlius 28, 2007
INVITATION / OPENING CEREMONY
We fondly invite everyone at 18.30 on 3rd August, at the Cultural Centre of Almássy Square to the official opening of the 3rd BuSho Film Festival. The festival is going to be opened by Groó Diana, film director. Dr. Schneider Márta, cultural under-secretary has accepted the title 'major patron' of the festival, the moderator is going to be Galamb.június 27, 2007
VISEGRAD WORLD MUSIC EVERY NIGHT
The schedule of the concert series IVF Folk & Roll is complete! The program includes concerts of the leading folk-rock bands of the region. The gigs in cronological order are: the Slovak Druzina, the Hungarian Rackajam, the Polish Chudoba, and finally the Czech Gothart.
Druzina (The Suite) was formed in the year 2000. A group of musicians (folklorists, jazzmen and rockers) got together and their various adaptations of Slovak folklore songs developed into a style which they named the ethnobeat. They gave numerous live and TV performances in Slovakia and abroad (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, France) under the name Jej Druzina (Her Suite) In the year 2001 the band released a CD titled Jej Druzina, which is still selling well all around Europe. In the middle of the year 2002 the original band split into two fractions One of them is the band Druzina. Members of the band Aty Beres (bass), Boris Brna (drums) and Mita Almasiova (vocals) invited their musician friends Miroslav Baloga (violin), Janko Simiak (fujara, pipes, accordion), Martin Sabov (guitar, mandolin) and Dana Feriencikova (lead vocal) to join them, giving rise to a new professional project named Druzina.
RACKAJAM (BUDAPEST – HUNGARY) 4. AUGUST, SATURDAY, 21:00
The last album of Ferenczi György and the Rackajam (entitled Petőfi) is going to become a golden album soon. This is the base of the DVD "Petőfilm" of the band. The DVD is going to be showed to the public of BuSho during a screening and a concert. The first Hungarian mouth-organ film invites us to a very exciting Budapest- Szeged- Kézdivásárhely- Bálványos-Csernát- Segesvár trip; during this journey we can follow the tour of a rock and roll band from Hungarian folk music through Jimi Hendrix to drum and bass. We can hear special themes at special locations, while the members of the band ride out the storms of the tour with the general "feeling". They pass through the toughest silence of their carrier at the battlefield of Segesvár. The pictures recorded in Transilvania are in perfect harmony with the scenes of the performance "Real Petőfi" of 15. March 2006.
CHUDOBA (WROCLAW – POLAND), 5. AUGUST, SUNDAY, 21:00
The folk ensemble Chudoba (= meagre possessions) was formed in 1993 by students from Wroclaw who search for the musical cross-roads at which Polish, Lemkish, Slovakian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian music might meet. The eight members of Chudoba try to update this music for younger generations with fresh and sometimes surprising arrangements. They use only acoustic instruments (accordeon, flute, mandolin, dulcimer and guitars), and some of them work at a research center for the traditional arts at the University of Breslau. After winning various prestigious prizes at folk festivals and from radio programmes, they performed at international festivals in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Belgium. "Hej Rupuni" is a gipsy song taken from their second cassette recording "Our Polka", issued in 1996.
GOTHART (PRAGUE – CZECH REPUBLIC) 6. AUGUST, MONDAY, 21:00
Gothart were formed in 1993. At first, they only interpreted medieval music ("június 26, 2007
GIZMOSHO ANIMATION WORKSHOP
An animation workshop organized by UPC operating the site VideoGizmo, Busho Festival and Hipokaloric Group will be held at the Cultural Centre of Almássy Square during the week prior to BuSho Festival. The 15 filmmakers chosen by the pre-jury will have the possibility to attend the 8-day workshop for free. Entries are expected until 20th July.június 25, 2007
THE DETAILED SCHEDULE OF THE FESTIVAL IS READY
The number of shorts entered to the festival has been doubled again this year -just as in 2006, so we have 360 films- a number not negligible even at an international rate. These 70 hours of motion picture caused some difficulties to the pre-jury, but they heightened the nivo of the festival at the same time. The 116 films of the competition program have been put into 22 blocks which cover all 4 days of the festival - setting a hard task to the international jury. See the scheduleTovábbjúnius 22, 2007
AFTER "GET UP, LACI" LET’S SAY "TALLY-HO, GABI!"
After last year’s aid concert, we would like to continue the series, and give a helping hand to our excellent friend, Papp Gábor, who helped us: composed, and played music to our films. But then he didn’t even know about a disease called Multiple Sclerosis...
He was very young when he met Keszthelyi László bass guitarist, and Hornyák Balázs drummer at the School of Music at Solymár. They played together in the bands called Blues Jam and Abszolút Hallás.
5 years ago it has been recognized that he had an illness called Multiple Sclerosis, so he became entitled to disability pension: a frantic sum of money, 18.000,- HUF monthly. (Just to inform You: this sum is less than 1/3 of the minimum wage.) As his state of health deteriorated –lost weight and his eyesight deteriorated- he couldn’t help giving up his professional musical carrier, but he did not lose his relation to music. He teaches guitar and music theory at the School of Music at Solymár, and he is very proud that he has so talented students as Both Miklós- frontman of the band Napra (which had great success at last year’s BuSho, and now it is becoming more and more famous internationally too.) and Pálinkás Ferenc.
Gábor (together with his previous bandmates they make a band called PG projekt for this one night), is going to dazzle the public of this year’s Busho opening ceremony with an one-of-a-kind concert. As last year’s "pay-if-you-are-honourable" method did not turn out right, this year we kindly ask the visitors to buy the entrance tickets (their price is 1000.- HUF) which entitles You to enter every program of the night, so we can give Gábor the receipts and say: "Tally-Ho, Gabi!"május 28, 2007
THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN FLARED
The final competition program of the 3. BuSho festival is finally born! The pre-jury (Mag-Rimóczi-Ganczer) worked hardly for more than a week, watched 350 films (60 hours) and made its all-time hardest final decision. The number of the entered films has been the double of those of 2006. Unfortunately the competition program has scarce time, so we created a new category: outlined information blocks in honour of the many excellent films.detailsTovább
május 27, 2007
Dissection of film festivals on film.hu
The 2nd part of the article dissecting the financial background of Hungarian film festivals -among others BuSho- in base of the decision of MMK has been published last week on film.hu.április 28, 2007
DO YOU WANT A SHO®T?
This year’s BuSho image is ready! The first ad was made to the Titanic Festival. All of the materials will be accompanied by this theme, so You can soon download the banner, the press materials, etc from the website...Donwload the large poster here
április 27, 2007
THE 8th KAFF
Will be held at Kecskemét on 20.-24. June 2007. The visitors - in addition to the screenings- can attend musical and theatrical performances, exhibitions and professional debates.www.kaff.hu
április 26, 2007
MAFSZ ORSZÁGOS SZEMLE SIÓFOKON
The Association of Indipendent Hungarian Filmmakers awaits entries into the competition of the 54. HUNGARIAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (Siófok. 17.-20.May, 2007) until 3. May! The experience will be diversified by exhibitions, bingo-competitiom and Kiscsillag concert. Details here!március 25, 2007
This year grace at Faludi
The Faludi Ferenc Academy announces its XII. amateurish thematic film festival – this year its title is: GRACE- and the related application. And this is not all: this spring professional seminars ( screenplay, camera-man ), and this summer 1-week film-camp are going to be organized at Pázmány...február 28, 2007
DO YOU WANT A SHO®T?
The 3rd BuSho International Short Film Festival excepts the entries in the usual categories: short fiction, animated and experimental. Most important change is that the deadline for entries has been brought forward to:3. May 2007.
február 27, 2007
Parade awards related to BUSHO:
- The prize of the best director at the 38. Hungarian Film Parade was given to Szász János for Opium- diary of an insane woman. We assume that the idea of the film was busted from the brain of the director when he wakened from his extasy after the viewing of Ballads of Szexard...- The award of best actress was given to Kovács Kata for her performance in Kythera - probably her success is caused partly by the positive aura of a certain side-acting football hooligan...
- Certificate of merit: Igor and Ivan Buharov for " Slow Mirror" - because we like the films dancing on the edge of the razor which divide the public opinion...
- The prize of best camera-man of the jury of the shorts: was got by the cameraman of Alterego, Tóth Widamon Máté. This autumn the flat interiors are going to have great role even in our lives...
január 28, 2007
"Master" riddle: what's that?
It was present at various festivals 83 times, got 40 prizes and now it has an Oscar nomination. The solution is: MAESTRO.The animated short film lasting almost 5 minutes of M. Tóth Géza was chosen among the best 5 by the American Film Academy. After 26 years when Ferenc Rófusz won an Oscar with his animated cartoon entitled The fly now the director teaching at the faculty of animation of the University of Handicrafts got really close to the possibility of getting the golden statuette.
The story of the "Maestro" – a kind, committed artist - and of his precise and humorous helpmate leads us to a special world both visually and emotionally. There is nobody who can resist their little world- from which the mantle falls down at the end of the film. We trust: they are going to feel this way even in America.
At 25. February let’s root for the the favourite of many of us: for "Maestro" which got two prizes at BuSho 2006!
december 28, 2006
HNY
Finally we finished the update of the BuSho-website from which you can download the new entry forms and you can get much-much information about BuSho 2006 (articles, photos etc.). Merry Christmas and very-many Short Films in the New Year wish you: the BuSho Team!december 27, 2006
Decadent freehand go France
Very good news: Rimóczi László (Lezmuvek-Decadent Freehand www.lezmuvek.hu - entrant for the 1. BuSho) won Nisimasa international screenplay-writers’ competition (nisimasa.imingo.net) together with Csukor Sonja! Nighttime Visitors won from 400 screenplay-plans. In addition to the subsidy put at Laci’s disposal for the shooting of Nighttime Visitors they can take part of a screenplay-writer workshop at Moulin d’Andé at the end of January and of the following deservedly famous Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand. Of course with many-many BuSho handouts...december 26, 2006
BBB triangle (BuSho-Békéscsaba-Bologna)
Tóth Csaba, the star of the Dustmen receives at home Lorenzo Mariani, director of the animated short film entitled I painted the peace in the near future.As known the makers of the two films got so close during BuSho that they funded the Békéscsaba-Bologna axis. The visit of the Italian artist is a result of this fact. They did not tell details, but our reporters are going to investigate everything: which local traditions, bars (and other places of interest) are going to be visited and adopted by Lorenzo in the Stormy Corner.
november 28, 2006
WE MOVE! (from #9 to #7)
The Society of BuSho Moving Birds decided to leave Kinizsi. As we had 5-6 offers of possible scenes, we took our satchels and took a look at them! I intentionally do not specify these possibilities: I do not want our public to brood about the chances. After a long consideration, analysis of pros and contras we decided that the new scene is the Cultural Centre of Almássy Square. (1077. Bp. Almássy Squre 6.)november 27, 2006
ATTENTION! NEW ENTRY DEADLINE!
During the ending congress in September we decided to bring forward the entry deadline. We hope that this way we can avoid the mistakes caused by the hurry, for example we are going to have more time to correct the catalogue. In 2007 the deadline is going to be 3rd May.november 26, 2006
International Amateur Film Festival 2006.
Walking on the water. The Faludi Ferenc Academy is happy to announce its 11th international film competition and festival. The competitors are expected to treat the above topic in the form of a short feature film, experimental film, or documentary. We are expecting works with professional demands and completion, which are, at the same time, suitable for providing a orum for the dialogue between different opinions. Read moreTovább
The Faludi Ferenc Academy is happy to announce its 11th international film competition and festival. The competitors are expected to treat the above topic in the form of a short feature film, experimental film, or documentary. We are expecting works with professional demands and completion, which are, at the same time, suitable for providing a orum for the dialogue between different opinions.október 28, 2006
Brno 16
Brno after the BuShoGergely Zoltán’s Superwash has won the prize Petr Hvizd of the most talented youngster at The Brno International Short Film Festival.
This year there were 9 Hungarian producions at Brno-7 of them were presented at BuSho, too. (Except these 7 foreign productions were projected at Kultiplex.) The Chinese Take Away of Felix Blinder (student of Hamburg Media School) has won silver medals this year: he was given silver medal at Brno, too.
The gold medal of the unprofessional category went to Ferenczik Áron (for knife, folk, spoon). Two other Ferenczik films were in competition: Noon and 3 walls.
Absence of Ákos Mester (outlined by the International jury of BuSho) eas presented at Brno, too. (Ákos himself was there, too. We can soon read his writing about his festival experiences.)
Three other Hamburg films which got special prizes at BuSho were projected at Brno, too: Marc Brummond’s Kühe Schubsen; Claudia Lehmann’s Elsas Geburstag; and Alex Schmidt’s Dow Jane Index.
Other BUSHO films at Brno:
V. Nagy Attila: Strip-tease
Nimmerfroh Katalin: I closed my eyes and loved
Graeme Coole: A Case of Making The Knife Fit The Wound (U.K.)
Marko Cafnik: Does It Hurt? (Slovenia)
szeptember 28, 2006
Krsko contact making seminar
The first trip of Busho to abroad was to the Slovenian Krsko (we were invited by the last year’s BuSho partecipant Petra Jagric) where we could be part of an international film camp and a contact making seminar! Our presentation contained exclusively Hungarian pieces and it was a great success. We gained many new contacts and relationships, and we ascertained: the Slovenians truly outrivaled us by light-years...Tovább
CC Luksuz produkcija 2006.
augusztus 9, 2006
BuSho 2006 - FIRST PRIZE WON BY SUPERWASH !
There were many awards at the end of the 2nd International Short Film Festival at Kultiplex: the international jury gave the golden prize to Superwash (by Zoltán Gergely), while the student jury choose Bass in Contra of Alex Schmidt.Busho 2006 Prizes overviewTovább
augusztus 3, 2006
It's time to BuSho again!
On friday, at 18:30 after the official opening cerenomy the Second BuSho International Shortfilm Festival will start! 15 hours of competition films, 11 hours informational screenings, more than 7 hours of "best of" selections from the world's Shortfilm Festivals. Every night a movie and a concert. Come, and watch films until your eyes begin to shed tears!The catalog of the actual BuSho Festival is complete, and you can download it in pdf format (5 Mb). Attention, this is the most recent version of the program!
június 21, 2006
EXHIBITION
JÁNOS BALOGH (1937, Pilisszentiván)
TÖRŐCSIK MARI
CSERHALMI GYÖRGY
június 20, 2006
"Laci's story"
My name is Laszlo Horvath, I was born in Kézdivasarhely (Transylvania) in 1972. I am a teacher but I am also engaged in fine arts, music and films... 
Two thirds of my body became paralyzed with no premonitory sign within half an hour on 13 April 2005. The exact reason of my paralysis has not been found out after having several examinations; a special embolism was the most probable diagnosis?! Unfortunately, no treatment is available for me in Hungary. I found a few clinics where partial or complete recovery had been achieved with patients suffering from similar problems by the most modern treatment (stem cell’s therapy).
One of the most reliable clinics I found /where patients do not have to wait too long (years) for the treatment/ was 
június 4, 2006
The final schedule of the competition is ready!
The deadline for entries was June 4th 2006.The number of the entries arrived to the second Busho Short Film Festival was almost twice as much than last year. This caused some difficulties to the pre-jury...
The 100 films which in fine got the possibility to be presented at the Festival last cca. 15 hours and they surely will cause serious headache to the international jury, because they are so excellent that it won’t be easy to choose the films that will get the awards of the international parade at the end. You can find the complete list on Busho 2006 schedule site.Tovább
