MEDIAWAVE is involving students of University of West Hungary (UWH) who are studying Event planning to help in the organization of the festival.

Like MEDIAWAVE on Facebook and invite your friends to our group! The one who collects most of the likes from his/her friends wins a ticket to the MEDIAWAVE Festival 2011!
 

Our Foundation applied for a European Union Culture (2007-2013) grant framework program last autumn and now that their decision became public. We happily considered that the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency centered in Brussels supported our ideas.

The 19th Passport Control of MEDIAWAVE Foundation awaits young artists and those interested over 16, whether beginners, intermediate students (in formal art education) or advanced (with qualifications and/or experience) who intend to learn and develop their talent within the framework of a creative, international art cooperation offering fast and effective progress in practical knowledge. Click here!

Fred Anderson (March 22, 1929 – June 24, 2010) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who was based in Chicago, Illinois. With a distinctive forward-bent playing posture, Anderson's playing was rooted in the swing music and hard bop idioms, but also incorporated innovations from free jazz, rendering him, as critics Ron Wynn and Joslyn Layne[1] have written, "a seminal figure among Chicago musicians in the '60s." He played on the MEDIAWAVE Festival (2003). He get the "Parallel Culture" Award 2003 (MEDIAWAVE Award). video + video2 + video3

Today the last instrument became silent in Rudersdorf, Burgenland. The musicians went home...

Even the catastrophical weather conditions couldn't stop MEDIAWAVE Festival's jazz and environment weekend in Őriszentpéter. Surprisingly - even for organizers - the shed theater's hall was filled for the excellent international jazz concerts. Grencsó Kollektíva Duplo & Mikolaj Trzaska & Emil Gros closing concert - click here!

The artist mostly looked forward to was the "godfather of rap", Gil Scott-Heron on the second weekend of MEDIAWAVE festival. But the musical centre of gravity was in the end: Baba Zula from Istanbul has taken all the credits - in magic, sight and energy.

photo: Molnár Edvárd

Only weather chilled out MEDIAWAVE Festival that moved to Szombathely this year. On its 20th occasion the well-known quality has been presented at the film and music muster.

/Gil Scott-Heron at MEDIAWAVE

photo by Edvárd Molnár/

On Saturday evening, 8 May, the decision of the two international juries turned out.

According to it, the Main Prize & the Award for the Best Feature went to George Ovashvili for his film, The Other Bank.