CULT Award

THE CULT AWARD. TRUE STORIES IN CINEMA

Promoted by the satellite TV channel Cult, part of Fox Channels Italy, in collaboration with the TFF, this is an award to the best international documentary; its goal is to heighten the public's awareness of documentaries, one of the most up-to-date forms of reality cinema. The competition involves 12 to 15 feature-length documentaries not yet been seen in Italy (in cinemas or on television), chosen from all the festival's sections, except for Italiana.doc. The artistic direction of the TFF and the editorship of Cult decide together which documentaries participating in the festival will be selected for The Cult Award. True Stories in Cinema. Their choice is based on the originality of the documentaries' narrative structure, the visual solutions and the contemporary relevance of the stories. Once the festival has ended, and in keeping with market conditions, Cult will consider the possibility of purchasing the rights to air the winning documentary along with other participating documentaries which are judged worthy of being brought to the television viewers' attention.

In 2009, Oil City Confidential (UK) by Julien Temple was awarded the Best International Documentary Prize and 45365 (USA) by Bill and Turner Ross received a Special Mention.