You can watch a selection from the concerts, workshops and moods of the MEDIAWAVE'2009 Festival and some films made in the Passport Control Workshop.

PASSPORT CONTROL Summer Camp is now under the process of organization. As always. Breaking the traditions this years summer camp is now moved to Kisharsány and is to be a part of the Ördögkatlan Festival 29. July - 9. August. The Film and Animation Section will have 10, the Photo and the Theatre Section will have 7 days for the planned work. Details are coming soon, don't forget to check out our website regularly!

Passport Control 13 ended with a screening of all photos and film created during the 10 day workshop called 'Festspring'. After the program the audience was asked to vote for their favourite works.

The results of the Film Workshop:

1. Eszter DANISS-BODÓ: To be continued

2. Előd VARJU: This is the beginning

3. Giorgi MREVLISHVILI: Either/Or

Rewsults of the Photo Workshop:

1. Pavel MARKOVIC (SLK)

2. Luka KNEZEVIC-STRIKA (SRB)

3. Daniel WARMUZ (POL)

The Animation Workshop's creation were not included in the contest. Gergely Papp - leader of the  emphesized that despite the short time available the young participants had gained a lot of experience and many of them produced remarkable results by the end of the week.

Oscar winner editor Alan Heim and one of the most famous cinematographers Vivi Drâgan Vasile come to give a lecture at Passport Control Film Workshop. Among the lecturers several other world famous artist from all over Europe.

The annual spring training of Passport Control Workshop was taken place between 13th and 22nd February, 2009. We looked forward for 10 exciting days apart from the small number of participants. At the first weekend – from Saturday evening to Monday night – a professional shooting, Attila Antal’s “Take It with You” took place.

The deadline of the Passport Control Festspring workshops (22/04 - 02/05/2009) - which take place in Győr, Hungary, during MEDIAWAVE Fil and Music Festival - is 23rd of March (Monday)! To reach the condidtions of the application click here!

 MEDIAWAVE Passport Control Staff ran shows featuring a mobile exhibition, a screening and a concert for highschool students to inform them about the opportunities of participating the multi-art festival and it’s related workshops either artists or organizers as well. The Passport Control tour had it’s first to visit the Krúdy Gyula Secondary Grammar School, Bilingual Secondary School and Vocational School for Tourism and Catering at Győr.

”ÚJ UTAK-NEW LINES” International Music Workshops within MOVEAST International Film Festival (Pécs): International Blues Workshop, Folk Blues Workshop, MEDIAWAVE Undergound Workshop 
This year too,  MEDIAWAVE International Visual Art Foundation has been charged with organizing music programs at MOVEAST International Film Festival. The unique character of these additional programmes comes from the fact you won't only enjoy a series of concerts at the festival, but you can also follow step by step the work of the music workshops, where every circumstance is provided for the musicians to cooperate creatively  with each other.

31 August

Representatives of MEDIAWAVE (Péter Pusker - music program organizer, Péter Szabó -leader of the photo workshop, Csaba Mészáros - ethnographer and Jenő Hartyándi - Festival director) went to Siberia today, where they are going to hold a film and photo workshop in Novosibirsk, a city about 5000 km far away from here, within the framework of  "Meetings in Siberia" International Documentary Film Festival, in co-operation with CINEMA GARRET Workshop, for about 50 university students of film and photography. After the workshop, members of the staff will become members of a film producing crew and will travel 600 km farther to the Altai region, to make a documentary film about the culture of this "blank space" of the world, with the guidance of ARTEM, a throat-singer, who was introduced and became popular in the Festival this year. If you are interested, here you can find the films made in the workshop held last year in Siberia and the diary from Siberia from last year. Also, you can watch a film about the Artem trio, more precisely about their tour in Slovakia and Poland within MEDIAWAVE Festival. Jenő Hartyándi's latest, most actual blog is published on kisalfold.hu. We hope you can find there the newest diary notes and photos made there day after day.