5 BROKEN CAMERAS, Emad Burnat

The documentary 5 BROKEN CAMERAS snagged the International Emmy for Best Documentary at the 41st International Emmy Awards held in New York.  5 BROKEN CAMERAS, co-directed by Israeli Guy Davidi and Palestinian Emad Burnat, is a personal, firsthand account of life and nonviolent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. The film was shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel. The film is structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, and follows the Burnat family’s evolution over five years of village upheaval. 

2013 INTERNATIONAL EMMY® AWARD WINNERS: 

ARTS PROGRAMMING-TIE 
Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender 
EMP / Mercury Songs for Eagle Rock Entertainment 
United Kingdom 
Freddie Mercury was one of the most charismatic, complex, and fascinating characters in British rock music. The story of Queen is much told, but this documentary focuses on Freddie and the solo projects he worked on outside of the band. Using extensive archive footage of interviews with Freddie as well as concerts, video shoots, and personal material, a portrait of Freddie Mercury emerges which is very different from his flamboyant stage persona.

Hello?! Orchestra 
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation(MBC) / CEN MEDIA 
South Korea 
Violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill conducts an orchestra of 24 children from multicultural families. Raised in a multicultural family himself, Richard understands the discrimination these children face, and he attempts to unite and heal them through music. BEST

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR 
Sean Bean 
In Accused 
RSJ Films 
United Kingdom 
Simon is a shy, lonely, English literature teacher with a secret. He has a transvestite alter-ego, Tracie. Tracie goes out to clubs at night. She is flamboyant, funny, and loud, and in search of love. 

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS 
Fernanda Montenegro 
In Sweet Mother 
TV Globo / Casa de Cinema do Porto Alegre 
Brazil 
Dona Picucha is 85 and wishes to live independently in spite of her age and the concern of her children. She feels ready to try new experiences, like dancing. 

COMEDY 
Moone Boy 
Baby Cow Productions Ltd / Hot Cod Productions / Grand Pictures / Sprout Pictures 
United Kingdom 
Set in a small Irish town in 1989, ‘Moone Boy’ follows the adventures of the youngest member of the Moone family, 11-year-old Martin. In order to survive life with his chaotic family Martin relies on his friend, Sean Murphy for company. Sean is no ordinary pal, he’s imaginary: a grown man with a beard, whose middle name, Caution, gives him something of an edge. Together, Martin and Sean negotiate various obstacles, from his sisters’ pranks to the pressures of being an altar boy. 

DOCUMENTARY 
5 Broken Cameras 
Alegria Productions / Burnat Films Palestine / Guy DVD Films / France Télévisions 
France 
5 Broken Cameras is a personal, firsthand account of life and nonviolent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. The film was shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel. The film is structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, and follows the Burnat family’s evolution over five years of village upheaval. 

DRAMA SERIES 
Les Revenants (The Returned) 
Haut et Court TV / Canal+ 
France 
A small mountain community is rocked to its core when several local people who are presumed dead suddenly reappear at their homes. Despite having passed away some years earlier, these ghostly characters appear in human form, they have not aged, and they are completely u naware of their own fatality. Determined to reclaim their lives and start over, they slowly come to realize that they are not the only ones to have been brought back from the dead. 

NON-SCRIPTED ENTERTAINMENT 
Go Back To Where You Came From – Series 2 
SBS / Cordell Jigsaw Productions 
Australia 
With the asylum-seeker issue still dominating national debate in Australia, the series ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’ returns for the next stage of its social experiment: to challenge the strongly held beliefs of six Australians on a journey to see the world through the eyes of refugees. This time, the stakes have been raised. The participants are going to the most desperate and dangerous corners of the world, and they are all high-profile Australians who represent different – often opposing – sides of the asylum-seeker debate. 

TELENOVELA 
Side by Side 
TV Globo 
Brazil 
Laura and Isabel are two women from different social classes. One’s parents are former aristocrats, while the other’s are former slaves. The two families developed a solid friendship. Laura and Isabel fall in love with two young idealists, Edgar and Zé Maria. Amid the early Republic comes the emergence of samba, the arrival of soccer in Brazil, the end of the tenements, and the beginning of the slums (favelas) in Rio. 

TV MOVIE/MINI-SERIES 
A Day for a Miracle (Das Wunder von Kärnten) 
Rowboat Film and TV Production GmbH / ZDF / Graf Filmproduction GmbH / ORF 
Germany 
In 1998, a young cardiovascular surgeon and ultra marathon runner from Vienna named Markus Höchstmann started his first job in rural Austria. Over two long days that same year he saved a life no one thought could be saved. With his superiors away, a drowned four-year-old girl was brought into the emergency room. Cold and lifeless after having spent 30 minutes under water, she was considered clinically dead. Even though a similar resuscitation had never been accomplished, Markus risked everything to save the girl’s life and made medical history.