Ray (magazine)
The ray Filmmagazin is a magazine for cinema and new media that appears ten times a year and is considered one of the most important Austrian film magazines. The July / August and December / January editions are double issues.
The first edition of ray appeared in April 2001. The editorial team at that time consisted of Andreas Ungerböck (editor-in-chief), Bernhard Seiter and Maya McKechneay. After the bankruptcy of the Viennese publishing house PVS Verleger in September 2005, Andreas Ungerböck and some employees decided to buy ray out of the bankruptcy estate and to continue it himself.
Since December 2005, the magazine has been published by the newly founded publishing house substance media under the editors Andreas Ungerböck and Mitko Javritchev .
Distribution in Austria is carried out by press sales Morawa , in Germany by Schüren Verlag .
In addition to the regular issues, ray Filmmagazin publishes special issues or program magazines on the following topics and events: Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, Diagonale Graz, Viennale , International Children's Film Festival Vienna as well as various special issues on company anniversaries, etc.
Film awards
ray awards / awards film prizes at the following film festivals in Austria .
ray Audience Award ( Crossing Europe )
The audience award was given to the director of a film in the European competition from 2006 to 2010.
- Prize winner 2006: Sergej Stanojkovski (Macedonia) for contact
- Prize winner 2007: Gérald Hustache-Mathieu (France) for Avril
- Award winner 2008: Stefan Arsenijević (Serbia) for Love and other Crimes
- Award winner 2009: Alexis Dos Santos (United Kingdom) for Unmade Beds
- Prize winner 2010: Séverine Cornamusaz (Switzerland) for Cœur Animal
ray Audience Award ( Vienna Independent Shorts )
The audience award was given to the director of a short film in the international competition in 2007 and 2008 and in the Austrian competition from 2009 to 2012. Since 2013 there have been three ray audience awards at Vienna Independent Shorts: in the international competitions Fiction & Documentary and Animation Avantgarde as well as in the Austrian competition.
- Award winner 2007: Astrid Rieger (Germany) for Apple On a Tree and Mammal
- Awardee 2008: Radu Jude (Romania) for The Tube With a Hat
- Prize winner 2009: Sasha Pirker (Austria) for Angelica Fuentes, The Schindler House
- Prize winner 2010: Robert Cambrinus (Austria / United Kingdom) for Commentary
- Award winner 2011: Christoph Schwarz (Austria / China) for Supercargo
- Prize winner 2012: Dinko Draganovic (Austria) for Tatin Ponos
- Prize winners 2013: Robert Cambrinus (Austria / United Kingdom) for I Can't Cry Much Louder Than This , Joseph Pierce (United Kingdom) for The Pub and Ulrike Kofler (Austria) for We fly
ray Filmmagazin Documentary Award ( International Film Festival Innsbruck )
The prize, previously called the Christian Berger Documentary Film Prize, went to the director of the best documentary film in the international competition. It was only awarded in 2007.
- Award winner 2007: Aysun Bademsoy (Germany) for At the Edge of Cities
Web links
- Official website
- magazinkultur.at about ray ( Memento from August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - With an interview with editor Andreas Ungerböck
Individual evidence
- ↑ There's a new man in town: RAY In: fm4:, April 3, 2001, accessed November 29, 2017.