Docudrama "Jules Verne. A life long journey", produced by FILM.UA and Signal Red, received Silver Dolphin in the category of docudrama at Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards. This year's competition was particularly high: the organizers received a record number of applications - 719 entries from 40 countries.
This is not the first award for "Jules Verne". At WorldFest Houston film was awarded the highest honor Platinum Remi Award in the category of documentary films. Docudrama was also shortlisted for NYF Television & Film Awards, the results of which will be announced in April 2014.
"Jules Verne" entered into a series of programs "Great dreamers", consisting of five films: “Tsiolkovsky’s worlds of miracle", "Free Energy of Tesla", "Jules Verne. A life long journey", "Leonardo da Vinci. In search of the truth" and "Archimedes. The master of numbers". This series is presented in Off The Fence catalogue, one of the leading distributors of television content.
The Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards are based in Vienna, Austria and were founded in 2010 by Filmservice International. Since then the Festival has constantly grown, becoming in only 3 years one of the top festivals for corporate films worldwide. The success of the Festival is due to increased number of entries, prestigious participants, innovative and qualitative works, prominent Jury members (e.g. Oscar and Emmy winners) and participating countries from all 5 continents.
