<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="/img/v1/news/news_2005-04_01_01.jpg" alt="Award-winning feature film equipped with Hawk Anamorphic Lenses" width="350" height="270" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <br> <p>7th Festival of Slovene Film 2004. The winner is: RUŠEVINE - "The Ruins" - a film about a recognised theatre director creating a spectacular play which is supposed to outshine anything he did before. The film allows the audience a view of the secrets and tensions in the close world of a theatre company.<br></p> <p> "The Ruins" received awards in nearly every category, notably vesna for best film, vesna for direction and vesna for photography.</p> <p>Vantage equipped "The Ruins" with Hawk Anamorhpic lenses, the most advanced lens technology available today. Both director Janez Burger and cinematographer Simon Tanšek tremendously enjoyed working with Hawk Anamorphic Lenses - so much so, that Tanšek is going to use Hawk Anamorphics for his new film "Od Groba do Groba", directed by Jan Cvitkovic. </p> <p>Here are some of their comments and reflections:</p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"><img src="/img/v1/news/news_2005-04_01_02.jpg" alt="Janez Burger" width="239" height="162" border="0" vspace="2"><br> <br> <img src="/img/v1/news/news_2005-04_01_05.jpg" alt="The Ruins" width="239" height="162" border="0" vspace="2"></td> <td> </td> <td valign="top"><p><b>JANEZ BURGER<br>on the screenplay:</b><br><br> This film was my way of dealing with a very specific question: What is love like in an egocentric world? Can love exist in a world where everybody pays attention only to him- or herself?</p> <p>In this sense, "The Ruins" is a film about love - a film about people who would like to love, but are unable to. In a way, it is a film about emotional invalids. This film entered my life at a time of personal crisis, when I was dealing with feelings of disappointment and discontent.<br><br></p> <p><b>JANEZ BURGER<br>on Hawk Anamorphic Lenses:</b><br><br> My comment on your lenses? My English is not good enough to prize their quality and perfection!</p> <br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img src="/img/v1/news/news_2005-04_01_06.jpg" alt="Simon Tanšek" width="239" height="162" border="0" vspace="2"><br> <br> <img src="/img/v1/news/news_2005-04_01_07.jpg" alt="The Ruins" width="239" height="162" border="0" vspace="2"><br> <br> </td> <td> </td> <td valign="top"><p><b>SIMON TANŠEK<br>on the decision to use Hawk Anamorphic format:</b><br><br> <br>During location scouting Janez and I had Hawk Anamorphic Lenses on our mind. This was partly due to the landscape: For exteriors we mostly used hills, beautiful 360 degrees of empty landscape. <br><br>Another reason for shooting anamorphic was the fact that 80 percent of the interior shootings were meant to convey a sense of anxiety and depression. On the other hand there was the feeling of freedom and eternal physical freedom ... <br><br>The same was true for the lighting. The story begins and ends in the interiors with depressed lighting.</p> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3"> <p><b>SIMON TANŠEK<br>on working with Hawk Anamorphics:</b><br><br> <br>I used the Hawk Anamorphic series C - compact because we shot the whole film with a handheld camera. The camera was more or less documentary style, and we wanted the auditors to forget that they sat in a movie theatre. The film "Ruins" was my first widescreen film. Before the shooting I did a lot of camera tests, especially because we used special laboratory processing for the positive - ENR process. During the whole shooting I used natural lighting which led me to work with the T.stop 2.8. The quality and brilliant sharpness of the pictures I captured proved me right.</p><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="/img/v1/news/news_2005-04_01_03.jpg" alt="The Ruins" width="239" height="162" border="0" vspace="2"><br><br> <img src="/img/v1/news/news_2005-04_01_04.jpg" alt="The Ruins" width="239" height="162" border="0" vspace="2"><br> <br></td> <td> </td> <td valign="top"><p><b>RUINS / EMOTION FILM<br>Awards</b><br><br> <b>VESNA 2004</b></p> <ul style="margin: 0px 20px 0px 20px; paddin: 0px; line-height: 140%;"> <li>vesna for best film</li> <li>vesna for direction (Janez Burger)</li> <li>vesna for photography (Simon Tanšek)</li> <li>vesna for film music (Drago Ivanuša)</li> <li>vesna for best actor (Darko Rundek)</li> <li>vesna for best actress (Natasa Matjasšec)</li> <li>vesna for best supporting actor (Matjaž Tribuson)</li> <li>vesna for best supporting actress (Natasa Burger)</li> <li>best film - the Audience Award</li> </ul></td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="239"> <!-- <p> <b>"The Ruins" receives an award at the 6th film festival in Lecce April 2005</b>. At the 6th Film Festival in Lecce (Italy), The international festival jury, chaired by the Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, awarded "The Ruins" the special jury prize Reale <b>Mutua Assicurazioni</b>.</p><p>The film "The Ruins" had its <b>international premiere in Rotterdam 2004</b> and will also be shown at the <b>40th IFF in Karlovy Vary 2005.</b> <br>At the 6th Film Festival in Lecce (Italy), The international festival jury, chaired by the Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, awarded "The Ruins" the special jury prize <b>Reale Mutua Assicurazioni</b>. </p>--><p>The film "The Ruins" had its <b>international premiere in Rotterdam 2004</b> and will also be shown at the <b>40th IFF in Karlovy Vary 2005</b>.</p></td> <td> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><b>Stop magazine awards</b></p> <ul style="margin: 0px 20px 0px 20px; paddin: 0px; line-height: 140%;"> <li>best male (Darko Rundek)</li> <li>best female (Nataša Matjašec)</li> <li>best supporting role (Matjaž Tribušon)</li> <li>best newcomer (Janja Majzelj)</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <br><br>
