Award winner

All That Glitters, a film by Czech director Tomas Kudrna, has won the Healthy Workplaces Award for 2010. The film tells the story of a worker at an internationally owned goldmine in an inhospitable region of Kyrgyzstan.

At the outset, the filmmaker expected to find a typical story of Western exploitation of a poor post-Soviet country, but in reality a complex relationship of co-dependency emerged on which the mine was the only ray of hope for the local people. The story highlights the importance of strict safety conditions when dealing with dangerous chemicals to extract gold from rock at altitude, and is set against a backdrop of a decade-old environmental disaster, the repercussions of which are still being felt..

Videos

Trailer "All that glitters", winner of the Healthy Workplaces Film Award 2010

Interview with Tomáš Kudrna, director of the documentary “All that glitters”

From euronews cinema: Prize for Cyanide spill gold mine movie

Nominations

Jury

Tue Steen Müller has worked with short and documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board.

He is a co-founder of the Baltic film and TV festival and Documentary of the EU. He has taken part in many European short and documentary festivals as a jury member and as consultant for the documentary festivals in Barcelona, Belgrade and Damascus. He has given documentary courses and seminars in about 40 countries and he initiated and directed the European Documentary Network.

Irit Neidhardt is running mec film (middle eastern cinemas), a distribution and consulting company for films from the Middle East.

She worked as dramaturgical consultant with Sayed Kashua (Dancing Arabs) on the script adaptation of the novel „Da ward es Morgen“. She co-produced the documentary films „Recycle“ (Mahmoud al Massad) and „The One Man Village “ (Simon El Habre). She also works as curator, author and consultant for cinema and Middle East.

Vincent Aubert-Jaquin is a consultant in Social Communication and graduated in psychology and educational science.

He was head of the film and multimedia production unit of INRS, the French Institute competent in the area of occupational risk prevention. Vincent Aubert-Jaquin is a founding member of the European Consortium for Health and Safety at Work films production. He has taken part in the jury for the International Film Festival for Health and Safety at Work since 1996.

Film criteria

The film should deal with risks that people face at their workplace (such as physical, chemical, mechanical or psychosocial risks). It could also deal with workers' rights, workplace health and safety or the effects of political and economic change on the way we work.

Another focus could be on sectors playing an important part in the economic, cultural and political life in Europe (i.e. education, agriculture, construction, health care); or on groups facing particular challenges, such as migrant workers, women, disabled workers, young workers and ageing workers.

The Healthy Workplaces Film Award is given to an authored creative and artistic documentary, fostering debate and discussion among European citizens on the importance of safety and health at work. The film should have a specific point of view that convinces the jury by its compelling storytelling, strong characters and excellent filmmaking skills regarding camera work, sound and montage.

DOK Leipzig stands for films dedicated to peace and dignity of mankind. The films presented in the documentary film competitions must not have been publicly screened in Germany before. World, international or European premieres will be favoured.